The decline and fall of IBM
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The decline and fall of IBM
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#2Elephants can't dance.
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#3This is actually old news. IBM has been in decline for a LONG time.
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#4IBM was my former employer. This has been going on for a long time in the U.S. All one needs to do is go to this site:
http://www.endicottalliance.org/
And read the forums.
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#5IBM sells itself to customers as an IT company, but its true core competency is selling itself to customers who think it's an IT company. There are some very smart people there, but for the most part they mistakenly thought they were going to work for an IT company, or they are in the part which is just marketing (IBM Research comes out with some truly amazing stuff, which is basically just marketing to convince companies to buy services from IBM).
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#6Cringely's server appears to be down. Here's a Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:trvMH5p...
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#7website is down, the sweet irony... Now haven´t seen the opinion, I'm sure I have read the same already (over and over). IBM is not declining. To be magnanimous, I´d say it is only declining for narrow minded tech people who can see past their area of expertise. They are not investing, they are not innovating, they are cutting jobs in the US, bla bla bla. Well, they've been compounding at over 10% for the investor for the last 10 years, sure enough it's just a lucky strike or a mirage, right? yawn
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#8IBM sells itself to customers as an IT company, but its true core competency is selling itself to customers who think it's an IT company. There are some very smart people there, but for the most part they mistakenly thought they were going to work for an IT company, or they are in the part which is just marketing (IBM Research comes out with some truly amazing stuff, which is basically just marketing to convince comp…
Exactly. And there's nothing wrong with marketing, as long as the money comes along, which is all that "right" is: money. Some of these techies who write blogs are as smart as they are shortsighted.
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#9A 101 processor machine with 4 cores each and 5.5ghz that is actually sold and profitable does not sound like something a fallen company can pull...
It sounds like a machine a business would use too, you know, like someone named International Business Machines might build and sell.
Re: The decline and fall of IBM
#10website is down, the sweet irony... Now haven´t seen the opinion, I'm sure I have read the same already (over and over). IBM is not declining. To be magnanimous, I´d say it is only declining for narrow minded tech people who can see past their area of expertise. They are not investing, they are not innovating, they are cutting jobs in the US, bla bla bla. Well, they've been compounding at over 10% for the investor fo…
Agreed. I can't reach the article as the site is down, so my comment may be out of context, but i do agree they're doing something right. I haven't been following their stock price, but i do take the odd glance at their movements.
I was in talks with an employee at a blue-chip here in the UK, about assisting them with their digital strategy. They clearly needed alot of help. Unfortunately a major player swooped in - fast forward 12 months - they've helped them turn things around and now the client is doing great.
Turns out the major player that swooped in was IBM. Who knew IBM was actively doing digital marketing. I mean they're an IT company, right? I.e. networks, servers, software.
I think the reality is, they're a consulting company for big business that will help their clients get anything done and it only has to be remotely technical.
So i think they'll be around for a long time to come.