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I think the parent comment may be a reference to IBM being caught in the past deliberately firing older workers.
Allegedly, but not proven, right? https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ibm-wins-another-ru... https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/23/ibm_supreme_court/
Not the sort of thing you do for the hell of it.
Wasn't on my bingo card, that's for sure. Say what you will about big blue, they repeatedly seem to know who to acquire in order to buy themselves another 10 years of relevance.
They are almost 100 years old which is an accomplishment. I wonder how many they have left. I bet a big chunk of that depends on companies still running AS/400 systems.
See page 17: https://www.ibm.com/annualreport/assets/downloads/IBM_Annual...
Wasn't on my bingo card, that's for sure. Say what you will about big blue, they repeatedly seem to know who to acquire in order to buy themselves another 10 years of relevance.
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This is why we can't have nice things.
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Aren’t they always fighting the last war?
IBM is good at selling to large organizations. Large organizations are risk-averse, and prefer not to buy bleeding edge. IBM is pretty much institutionally specialized to sell what was hot last year (or last decade). People might make fun of this, but I'd like to note that there is a lot of very stable revenue in their business.
Hell, React alone has been through 3 or 4 different paradigms in the last 10 years.
Mitchell, one of the co founders, left HashiCorp in December 2023 [1] It’s either terrible timing (missed on more money?) or he knew about it and decided months in advance that it’s not worth the trouble of staying on (ie, look at the aftermath of the RedHat and IBM acquisition). [1] https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-reflects-as-he-depar...