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Cloud is the new mainframe. And IBM Cloud is terrible in comparison.

All you ever hear about is how challenging Kubernetes is to manage. IBM invested in self managed Kubernetes essentially while everyone else built SaaS Kubernetes Engine’s.

IBM feels like a collection of revenue lines that hasn’t really tapped into any new streams lately.

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For what it's worth IBM has transitioned to OpenShift and it is a very successful product line. I think there are a lot of problems with marrying OpenShift with IBM's other products but OpenShift on IBM Cloud is pretty good.

I'm sure it's successful to some degree. They bought it, because it was a successful enterprise implementation.

That being said, I'm not sure why I would leverage OpenShift on IBM Cloud when I can get practically the same thing from the other providers with a stronger ecosystem of tooling.

Which leads me back to OpenShift on-premise and I'm just not sure that is where the market is at or headed right now.

I view OpenShift, ultimately, as a bridge technology that leads to pure cloud k8s, but there is a heck of a lot of money to be made in the meantime.

IBM Cloud gets new OpenShift features quicker than other cloud providers.

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