Diane Green put GCP firmly on the map as a cloud provider to reckon with.
And once IBM launches their cloud I would actually put them ahead of GCP given how useful their Compose suite is.
Compose is just a managed database service which IBM also acquired. I don't see how that alone would put them ahead of any cloud, especially when they're already lacking in infrastructure and software.
And Compose manages databases on AWS and GCP too, similar to Aiven and others, so I don't see how that alone makes IBM special.
Not that their infrastructure is insignificant ... but it's insignificant
Interesting. Is it just another rename (Softlayer -> BlueMix -> ?). Or something else?