Shedding GTS may eliminate a distraction, but it's just one step toward the transformation it is
seeking.
More activity yet to come: spin-off, RA's, divestitures, etc.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/for-ibm-will-spinning-off-gts-help-it-get-the-red-hat-mojo/
I know customers are actively now DITCHING redhat from their roadmaps as it was being used for convenience but is now seen as over complicated, dis functional and inferior to Kubernetes which is becoming the real opensource industry standard.
IBM, yet again is the last mover panicking to buy itself into a market, then becoming like the lonely kid at the party that no one wants to talk to.
It’s lost all originality.
The “innovation” is all about writing paper patents to be used for financial engineering purposes.
Total disaster of a company.
It is sheer insanity that IBM is in this situation. IBM had to buy little Red Hat to try to survive in the new Cloud world. How the mighty have fallen. If IBM had lost the bidding war for Red Hat, would that have meant the end of hope for IBM's future? If this is true then the IBM executive leadership has been missing in action for the last 10 years. A company with such a storied history, such a large R&D budget, so many filed patents, and so much personnel talent is now primarily valued by the marketplace for its newest acquisition, Red Hat. Someone has been "asleep at the wheel" big time.