Not an ibm fan, but where do you think virtual machines and automations came from? z/vm came out in the 80s doing what VMware redeveloped in the late 90s. FedNow will likely use z machines and ibm's cloud division to support that crap. Add the fact AI could be plugged in relatively easy and we have something to be wary of. A lot of the innovative tech from other tech companies was already running in shops using mainframes.
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Kind of proving my point - IBM haven’t done anything new for decades and crediting them with inventing stuff in the 80s/90s is like pointing out Kodak invented the digital camera and then entirely failed in that field..
Their ‘cloud division’ is just RedHat. That was essentially a reverse merger so they could leverage IBM incumbency, not expecting anything interesting to come out of there.
But they didn't fall out and are still here, so not like Kodak at all. And all the other cloud services providers are using other flavors of Linux too, not sure what that proves. Again, I'm not a fan of IBM but if you think they are any different from AWS, Azure, or Oracle they aren't. Do you mean split? Reverse merger sounds like a weird way of saying split. My cousin was involved with the IBM cloud services division. I worked at an Enterprise that utilized mainframes and most of the cloud services provided today.
Also, cloud was made up to mean 'not your data center'. 300x300 tiles in our data center, cloud shit took up 75% of the space and the mainframes took up 5%. The cloud shit was basically mid-range utilizing apis to talk to the mainframes. Cloud is really a joke but everyone bought it.