IBM Sinks 17% and Drags Software With It — Is Enterprise Cash Quietly Fleeing to Hardware?
IBM's preliminary Q2 disappointed — ~$17.2B revenue, up just 1% and short of the ~$17.86B estimate — triggering a brutal ~17% pre-market drop that bled across software peers. The sharper tell: IBM said clients pulled spending forward into servers, storage, and memory in late June, racing to lock in tight supply before prices rise. The IT dollar may be migrating from code to iron — exactly why storage and optical firmed while software sagged. One-off miss, or the start of a software-to-hardware rotation? If you had to pick a side today, which do you buy?
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