Re: Did the desire to hire Arvind Krishna cause IBM to buy Red Hat?
The substance of what they sell is primarily high margin service promises and stagnant stock value.
Products such as hardware based ones, used to be a priority, but the their profitability haven't been profitable enough to justify the stock expectations. They've maintained a growth model of self-consumption until they find something with better margins to sell.
Today the growth model has consumed Ginny. Arvind now gets the privilege of attempting better.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
