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Arvind Krishna Rebuilt IBM Around Software. Now He Has to Make the AI Stack Outrun the Mainframe Cycle
Arvind Krishna made IBM smaller, more software-led and more profitable. A second-quarter shortfall now tests whether Confluent, Red Hat and watsonx can produce growth independent of the mainframe cycle.
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Arvind Krishna Is Turning Open-Source Patching Into a Subscription. A $5 Billion Bet Must Earn Trust
Arvind Krishna is extending Red Hat's commercial open-source model beyond IBM's own products. Lightwell sells validated fixes for the software versions companies already run, creating a potentially large security business and a difficult test of neutrality, liability and subscription economics.