“In the Sept. 24 announcement, both companies stressed this new
client would be initially offered in Africa, sold through local
service providers. Even the the cloud services, IBM hoped, would be
offered from local African providers, according the a September
interview with Bob Sutor. “‘The idea is really to drive local
partnerships around offering this,’ Sutor, IBM’s VP of open source
and Linux, told [Channel Register]. ‘So that doesn’t mean users be
sitting in Cape Town and connecting to a cloud somewhere in
Iowa.'”