When POWER is shut down to make way for buzzword and hype like "quantum"'.
You end up unable to pay salaries and lose grip on actual talent or people who mastered technology rather than meaningless terminology.
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Still plenty of big customers using Power... Not sure why though...
POWER is NEVER mentioned by Arvind or R Thomas etc. All IBM cares about now is mainframe (monopoly), software and services (Consulting, not managed svcs like the old kyndryl stuff). Power went from a $5B business to under 2. All IBM keeps talking about and paying people to try and MOVE/PUSH long time Power on premises customers to PowerVS Power Virtual server which is running Power systems in IBM's 16 data ctrs and seems to no longer want on prenmises sales. IBM TLS also seems to no longer want to fund SSRs to do IBM on premises svcs but keeps trying to hype TLS for MVS mutiple vendors svscs (ie IBM service Cisco, Checkpoint etc). IBM has intentionally massively moved jobs to India including Power and no longer really has solid customer relationships since they PIP sales perf improvement plans every 6 months and hires RCG recent college grads to keep labor costs low and none of these new people have ever sold or been in a data ctr. IBM sends the RCGs to GSS Global Sales School where they are told they are the smartest people on the planet and then come out and get a laptop and quota and told to sell. That's it. Sad. I could see Power be sold to Dell or Oracle of Lenovo to be milked for awhile. I do not see PowerVS catching on nor do I see IBM moving their hyped 10,000 SAP customers to PowerVS for SAP RISE but like a record player stuck on the same groove, you just keep hearing the same old lame story.
What is the current situation with POWER? In tonight's 1Q results, I see this:
- Distributed Infrastructure down 5 percent, down 4 percent at constant currency
I assume that "Distributed" means POWER?
Also, my understanding is that pretty much every aspect of POWER has now been moved to India and Austin, TX does other stuff?
But I had not heard that POWER is "shut down." So ... it's on life support?
Any info would be useful.