Thread regarding IBM layoffs

IBM isn't pushing DB2 because RDBMS is a dying approach to data modeling. It's had a brilliant run, but the constraints of modeling data that were important in 1970 (!) have zero applicability or consequence to modern software development.

Absolutely nobody using a modern software stack is building applications on Oracle/SQL Server/DB2 anymore. You'll still find PostgreSQL usage out there, but even that is starting to fall to more modern approaches. They're just too slow and cumbersome.

IBM is continuing to put basic investment in DB2 to keep their existing mega customers happy. But containerizing the app/db isn't really innovation; it's becoming table stakes. Trying to go out with a marketing campaign and championing containerization of your db would be like trying to sell your cloud as innovative and differentiated because you offer an API for developers to provision resources -- you'd get laughed out of the room by anybody that understands the space (i.e your customers).

As everywhere else, journalists at The Register don't seem to understand the space they're covering. They'd do well to join the workforce and learn a little about the space, rather than covering it from the grand heights of looking down their noses.

PS - I don't work at IBM anymore, but I know the space and the suggestions in this article are foolish. On this one issue, at least, IBM appears to have gotten it right.