I had wondered at the time what the expected outcome was of spinning off the business, beyond simply trying to shed the terrible reputation IBM had as an MSP. The companies still doing business with them in my area were looking for the door and have mostly found it since the rebrand and split.

It is certainly too soon to say but I do hope this leads to a ramping down of lowest dollar cost outsourcing in favour of slightly higher cost but better outcome based services. I can dream…

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