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Because their sticker price is 2x the competitors and they are willing to take a loss to get people on the platform. They are not winning in the cloud wars.

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Would you trust such a company over AWS or Azure?

Nope, I use GCP first

I don’t have anything against GCP on a technical level - I don’t know enough to. But their enterprise support is abysmal and that whole “No one ever got fired for buying AWS/Azure”.

But they might get fired buying from IBM

I’m not sure. I think IBM will be selling systems compatible with the mainframes of the 70s until the heat death of the universe.

I can sell you some IBM if you'd like, official reseller.

Working on the GCP equivalent if you prefer :]

IBM better get their act together to make your (reseller) life easier.

I used to work with IBM big data analytical tool and honestly you should get a medal for closing sales on this garbage.

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