Thread regarding IBM layoffs

I suspect the sell off of HW will encompass HW and OS’s. IBM will mine everything else SW wise since that feeds the “cloud” services model. Everything that can move to “as a service” will do so, and IBM will keep it. If you look at Power vs Z, you can see the difference. Power has zero “as a service” offerings NO HW offer, NO AIX offer, NO OS/400 offer, and NO LINUX offer. You would think after 5 years of pitching MSP offers, that IBM would have figured it out. NOPE they have not, and the market place has passed them by. The same thing has happened in DASD. Zero offers equals zero market share and zero customers. EMC and other more nimble HW makers filled this void and offered piles of pay for what you use offers. IBM Power and IBM DASD are standing there with their hats in their hands and are wondering where their customers went. It didn’t help that IBM laid off 90% of their Power and DASD sellers. Their customer base noticed and moved on. If they were stuck on Power, they now buy used. Z on the other hand via ALC and MLC as well as ELA’s has figured out the “as a service market” and controls it quite well. Z has made the migration to cloud. Power and DASD are dying a quick death