An amusing and truly sad review, Atta boy, cloud mastermind Arvind! Atta boy! IBM's sure to gain plenty of marketshare with this.
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/5-takeaways-from-poking-around-ibm-cloud/
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IBM should be paying the author for doing more testing than anyone else at IBM has done on the product. But this is what happens when you send all of your UI dev work to the cheapest location possible instead of using real UX designers. You get the cheapest, lowest quality result. All of this happened under Arvind’s watch. We’re in for a bumpy ride folks.
@1auf - but opensource is CHEAP isn't it??? lol. I've worked for all 3 major linux distribs. The Red one, the Orange one, and the Green one. The Red's licensing is the most obtuse and difficult to make look worth it. Hence their marketing machine being constantly in overdrive to convince people its worth it (no matter what the numbers indicate).
Good luck selling it. Theyre focused more on the marketing story than the facts. The idea is that hopefully by the time the customer points out the true facts, Red is so entrenched that its not worth it to leave them.
1auf. Does this surprise you? It’s IBM’s strategy to walk the line of stabilize the legacy vs migrate the legacy. I have worked for the past 10 years on 2 fortune 50 accounts. Both accounts 10 years ago decided to migrate off the legacy mainly going to LINUX. 10 years later both have pretty much abandoned those strategies due to escalating costs (10 x the original estimates), lack of functionality on the new OS’s, lack of skills to get the legacy off, lack of a compelling offer from the “established cloud providers to offer value vs what they have today, and an acceptance that the “legacy” just works. This isn’t to say, that they are not embracing Amazon, Google, Microsoft to their advantage, but that tends to be mostly on the new app side of the house, and not on the legacy side of the house. Again just my observation. I believe IBM’s current strategy is farming the Z legacy applications, and the Power middleware applications to great advantage as they are the incumbent. NOTE the Z and Power are not a true cloud implementation, as offered via Amazon, Google, or Microsoft, BUT the IBM offer works for the fortune 1000 customers impacted.
“ Price goes from 4¢ an hour to 10¢ an hour if i pick RHEL, thus exposing the master plan behind their $34 billion acquisition of RedHat”
Sad. But true.
New folks (wearing red) have been told to push everything to Azure instead. Amazing that IBM even still talks of softlayer
@cdz - you weren't in charge of writing those IBM cloud docs were you?
They changed are dept name to Hybrid Cloud about a year ago, yet not 1 account on any Cloud. lol