According to the article IBM bought Softlayer and has only just launched BlueMix.
I tried Bluemix and found it unoriginal and a cit crap. Not that the world of cloud services moves according to my preferences, but I'm not seeing it used anywhere else either.
If IBM is "prominent" in cloud services it's from acquisitions. Whereas AWS pioneered the cloud industry.
This is certainly "doing things right" in that it's providing a great exit route for startup founders in the cloud industry. I'm not sure it's "doing things right" for IBM itself.
IBM looks like it's being run by accountants. You can tell because they think they'll get the same results from someone on a H1B visa as they will from their veteran employees. Accountants can never get their heads round the fact that technical folk aren't fungible.
I had a similar experience with Bluemix. One of the biggest turn offs though was the ridiculously convoluted website for IBM's cloud services. Some serious streamlining is in order there. I had no idea where to go or what to do to get the information I needed for simple things like straightforward API pricing, etc.
> but I'm not seeing it used anywhere else either.
Bluemix is a re-branded Cloud Foundry. IBM donates engineering to the Cloud Foundry Foundation.
CF is used in a lot of places.
Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal, the leading donor of engineering to Cloud Foundry. We have our own distribution of Cloud Foundry, PCF, that is a competitor to Bluemix.
Yes, but IBM somehow made CF, which is awesome to use, into a piece of shit offering with Bluemix. I hope their enterprise offering (if any) is better.
I tried Bluemix and found it unoriginal and a cit crap. Not that the world of cloud services moves according to my preferences, but I'm not seeing it used anywhere else either.
If IBM is "prominent" in cloud services it's from acquisitions. Whereas AWS pioneered the cloud industry.
This is certainly "doing things right" in that it's providing a great exit route for startup founders in the cloud industry. I'm not sure it's "doing things right" for IBM itself.
IBM looks like it's being run by accountants. You can tell because they think they'll get the same results from someone on a H1B visa as they will from their veteran employees. Accountants can never get their heads round the fact that technical folk aren't fungible.