Re: Disposal cost
IBM Hursley is/was a development lab. and thus is not under the IBM UK company, but reports directly to the US holding company. The full company name is IBM UK Laboratories Ltd.
The Hursley site is not full any way you look at it. Some space is leased out to bits of IBM UK (for example, the remains of the UK Software Centre and parts of the TSS Hardware Front Office) is in Hursley. This has happened as other IBM locations in Basingstoke and the South East have been closed.
UK CICS support and training, and some other Z Series support and training is done at Hursley, although I believe that the main CICS development was transferred to Toronto some time back. I think there is also some Storwize/Spectrum Virtualize development still done there, but there is now very little in development work done anywhere in IBM in the UK nowadays.
I also think that Hursley may be one of IBM's UK cloud centres.
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