On Sun, 5 Jul 2015 03:42:19 -0500, Shane Ginnane <[email protected]> wrote:
> >No doubt the deal was trumpeted by IBM, but it's another site that will be ex >soon. How does that build the platform ?. > >Shane ... > I don't think IBM wants to build the platform. They are placing all bets on cloud, analyitcs, mobile, security and social and just managing the decline of traditional lines of business, with no interest in expanding them. In a March 2015 Register article about volunteer redundancies in Middleware at IBM UK, and unnamed IBMer was quoted: The ECC also asked why job cuts are required when the Message Queue and Integration Bus products in the wider division are profitable, and the risk this poses to future deliveries. “Transactional revenues is predicted to decline and a result an appropriate revenue plan has been booked. The business model must be optimised to realign to this new plan,” IBM told ECC. “The objective is to realign the business’s costs to business objectives," said Big Blue, adding that it has already taken measures to help it meet targets, outside of redundancies. “All business areas have tightly controlled expense management systems in place” to help it meet top and bottom line forecasts, it said. Dana ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
