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Good luck suing ibm..
It may take a while, but you’ll win.
pyrrhic victory is not good for business
IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
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There is no need to market to Doctors now when they market directly to consumers who go demand they get the new medicine. If we want to reduce costs, we need to move to lower level providers like a LPN or CRNP. Most people coming into a GP have the flu or an ear infection or .... and that can be handled by them. There will be one MD and to handle complicated cases and to supervise. We've already switched so that inta…
> In the US at least working at FAANG pays far more than being a GP. Not just FAANG, either. The assertion by grandparent poster that GPs are "astoundingly" well paid is bonkers.
Additionally, a GP has med school plus residency. A Stanford CS grad will start higher than most GPs with only a bachelors degree.
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so I worked at IBM cloud, and can confirm this. They bought a cloud service, that by itself, and if left alone would been great. Soft(....something...) was the company... then IBM came and changed everything. I remember the SVP / President of ibm cloud showing up... talking 3 hours about how her son is so great and that we should 'follow' his example... after hour 3, man goes and interrupts and asks a question that w…
Softlayer is the name you're thinking of. They were pretty decent 10 or so years ago, but never touched them after the IBM acquisition.
Softlayer was solid at providing colo and dedicated servers. But they were never really architected with the cloud in mind. The pivot to cloud came later on. I always wonder why IBM didn't buy a provider like Linode.
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so I worked at IBM cloud, and can confirm this. They bought a cloud service, that by itself, and if left alone would been great. Soft(....something...) was the company... then IBM came and changed everything. I remember the SVP / President of ibm cloud showing up... talking 3 hours about how her son is so great and that we should 'follow' his example... after hour 3, man goes and interrupts and asks a question that w…
I’ve sat in an all hands like that before. Literally 50k$ an hour being wasted listening to some guy we’ll only ever see once talk about his sons 18th birthday. Weird experience.
I think it's a power move. Nobody got up and said, "Fuck you, I have better places to be." So they win. You probably thought it was about the business or something.
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Watson became a marketing term after the company spent hundreds of millions to brand Watson to be synonymous with AI. The term Watson then got appended to existing businesses as it allowed them all to benefit from the brand equity and Watson ads. This unfortunately happened even if there wasn’t any AI capabilities, so it eventually backfired. Watson Health seems to have been focused on selling the narrative of AI in…
As someone with no inside knowledge, it seemed to me that watson started as a technology (or maybe solution/set of solutions) and as time went on, it was pivoted to be a brand? Hard to tell for sure with how difficult it is to get IBM to answer questions about what they actually do...
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#197I really expected that we'd see a change in my lifetime, that GPs in particular would be replaced by a lower-cost Watson descendant, with there being some other role for patient interaction, wet work, and data entry (perhaps just nurses). My mom worked for a GP for about 20 years, and it seemed to me that most of what made that guy a doctor was bedside manner + being able to remember a lot of things. But GPs often ma…
> But GPs often make astounding amounts of money while leaning heavily on their staff to actually handle patients and keep the business running. The private ones might the ones in the public system at least in my country need to see a patient every 10 minutes to keep their heads above water.
What country are you from, if you don’t mind me asking?
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#198I do not understand how IBM stays in business. As far as I’m concerned the only cool engineering thing IBM does anymore is POWER, which has a sort of unique memory architecture but otherwise is well behind everyone else. What else did they do in my lifetime? They took a profitable RedHat and gutted it, they took the best Laptop line and sold it to Lenovo and almost ruined it, they tried to be a front runner in ML but…
They make awesome mainframes.
Extremely reliable, and extremely good at what they do. They sure are expensive.
A lot more companies should adopt them.
Yet its going the way.
They run at scale at a lot of companies.
AS/400 / iSeries was awesome at least in the beginning.
I think it may be discontinued now.
Those machines were extremely reliable and well made.
Often companies who had bought one had no idea where it was. Someone had set it up for them 7 years ago and after that nobody paid attention.
Some places were better and did proper backups. Which means stuff the right tape of a rotation into the slot.
They would also call home to tell IBM of a proper that is developing and they would send a tech out to switch the parts prior to anyone using it had any problem.
(and that is when the machines were sometimes hard to find. One was buried in a closet, with tons of paper cases, paper archives. stack buttom up to the floor.
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#199I do not understand how IBM stays in business. As far as I’m concerned the only cool engineering thing IBM does anymore is POWER, which has a sort of unique memory architecture but otherwise is well behind everyone else. What else did they do in my lifetime? They took a profitable RedHat and gutted it, they took the best Laptop line and sold it to Lenovo and almost ruined it, they tried to be a front runner in ML but…
You should read more about the history of IBM.
IBM is a sale driven organization. I.e. sale first - tech after. so it cannot be judged as an high tech company, I.e. on the tech.
A point of reference is SUN - which was tech first - sale after.
Another point of reference is HP. HP was tech first, but turned into sales first.
Re: IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
#200I do not understand how IBM stays in business. As far as I’m concerned the only cool engineering thing IBM does anymore is POWER, which has a sort of unique memory architecture but otherwise is well behind everyone else. What else did they do in my lifetime? They took a profitable RedHat and gutted it, they took the best Laptop line and sold it to Lenovo and almost ruined it, they tried to be a front runner in ML but…
How does any IT person stay in business if they do not create cool stuff?
There's your answer.