OpenText Takes Aim at IBM

During last month’s OpenText World, OpenText launched its new “Bye Bye Blue” initiative, saying it’s time for everybody to drop IBM and choose it instead.

Mark Barrenechea, OpenText’s CEO and CTO, launched the company’s latest battle cry against IBM.

“When we look at our business network cloud and our content cloud, we are way ahead of FileNet and Sterling Commerce,” he said. “Let’s have the facts speak for themselves. We are in the upper right quadrant of Gartner for innovation in the CSP market. IBM has moved lower left. Any lower left and they wouldn’t even be on the chart. We’re talking about a technology platform to drive your future of growth.”

Second, OpenText has a public SaaS model and a full private cloud, Barrenechea said.

“IBM just carved out their private cloud offering to a company called Kyndryl,” he said. “There are no vowels in it so I’m not sure how to pronounce it. If you need a private cloud offering, you’re going to discontinue operations, you’re going to have to negotiate multiple multiple SLAs. With OpenText, we’ll stand up for one SLA and we’ll give you performance guarantees of what we’re doing.”

OpenText is offering a free migration assessment and “we’ll have you say bye bye blue in 90 days or less,” Barrenechea said.