Yeah but they don’t do anything anymore. They create nothing, they innovate nothing, they build nothing. They’re a “service company” now. It’s not at all a shock that they’re failing to anyone but them themselves. IBM should never have green lit that brainless brain drain shift of focus.
they don’t advertize it because they don’t think its sexy or whatever but their mainframe business is still going strong if only because they’re the last player left in the market
That’s entirely untrue. IBM does mega projects and research for things the average consumer wouldn’t know or care about. Their customer base is industries, not people.
Having worked for a couple chip design shops, and now at ibm… ibm is the one of a few companies pushing the envelope in chip design. You just don’t need what they make, so you’ve never heard of it.
Last I read IBM was one of the big companies pursuing R&D in quantum computers and such plus they have some software stuff like crimestat and the weather channel under their umbrella.
You’ve experienced the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory in practice. For all you know that statement could have been made by someone who’s never needed an IBM product/solution, or is 16, living in mummy and daddy’s basement. For those of us with 20+ years in software, we know what you do and contribute. While I may not always agree with the philosophies of IBM’s solutions, you fill a super important need in many areas where not that many people have the capability to play. I’ve hired from and lost people to IBM and have nothing but positive things to say; there’s very much a customer-focused execution culture.
They are actually quite an innovation company and while their culture can be quite moribund in some of their offices, others are extremely buzzy places with lots of proud employees. It’s complicated, thus.
IBM is a law firm masquerading as a tech company. Anyone who has experienced their “partnerships” already knows this. Jesus Christ their contacts are insane. Once they get their claws in you’re fucked.
Source - 10+ years dealing with them in various capacities.
My new fun one is ServiceNow. You know how off-putting it is for a sales rep to tell you the customer how amazing their stock is doing as if it’s representative of the relationship you have with the company?
“We hear you now let’s sell you XYZ”
“Oh wait we failed you on something? Guess you need ABC!”
Wow, IBM is still around?
Our tech leans heavily on AS400s, if you can believe that. And we have 98% market share in our space. They’re complex, but they work, and don’t fail.
I worked with that and COBOL lol. I’ll never be without a job I guess.
DB2 isn’t terrible tbh but of course I want to use something like postgres if I had the choice.
Yeah but they don’t do anything anymore. They create nothing, they innovate nothing, they build nothing. They’re a “service company” now. It’s not at all a shock that they’re failing to anyone but them themselves. IBM should never have green lit that brainless brain drain shift of focus.
An IBM Power9 supercomputer built in 2018 is #7 on the top500.org supercomputer list. That’s not nothing.
Dunno if they’re going anywhere now though or if that was their last hurrah.
they don’t advertize it because they don’t think its sexy or whatever but their mainframe business is still going strong if only because they’re the last player left in the market
That’s entirely untrue. IBM does mega projects and research for things the average consumer wouldn’t know or care about. Their customer base is industries, not people.
Having worked for a couple chip design shops, and now at ibm… ibm is the one of a few companies pushing the envelope in chip design. You just don’t need what they make, so you’ve never heard of it.
Last I read IBM was one of the big companies pursuing R&D in quantum computers and such plus they have some software stuff like crimestat and the weather channel under their umbrella.
As a IBM developer - ouch man, that hurts. I guess I’ll just go back my job doing… nothing (actually sounds like a sweet job)
You’ve experienced the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory in practice. For all you know that statement could have been made by someone who’s never needed an IBM product/solution, or is 16, living in mummy and daddy’s basement. For those of us with 20+ years in software, we know what you do and contribute. While I may not always agree with the philosophies of IBM’s solutions, you fill a super important need in many areas where not that many people have the capability to play. I’ve hired from and lost people to IBM and have nothing but positive things to say; there’s very much a customer-focused execution culture.
Exactly. I’ve been referencing this comic for nearly 20 years (2 weeks off) and it’s still just as relevant.
For the uninitiated:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
Fucking ignorant innuendo enjoyers, the lot of em. Badmouth IBM for enshitifying CentOS but “making nothing” … yeah, no.
They also do quite a bit of engineering r&d stuff.
They just sell the licenses for their solutions and research now rather than directly making products from it.
They do things like ruin CentOS and buy up and screw up smaller data center companies.
Fedora —> Red Hat —> IBM.
They are actually quite an innovation company and while their culture can be quite moribund in some of their offices, others are extremely buzzy places with lots of proud employees. It’s complicated, thus.
Innovated CentOS into uselessness.
You just have no idea what they do, clearly. That doesn’t mean they don’t do anything.
IBM is still just as active, just not in the consumer markets anymore. They’re big into industry research and more specialized computing these days.
Yeah. And they have 3% market share of the cloud services.
AWS has 34%.
IBM is a law firm masquerading as a tech company. Anyone who has experienced their “partnerships” already knows this. Jesus Christ their contacts are insane. Once they get their claws in you’re fucked.
Source - 10+ years dealing with them in various capacities.
Just like Oracle lol, sOfTwArE aS a sErViCe is a plague on the tech world.
My new fun one is ServiceNow. You know how off-putting it is for a sales rep to tell you the customer how amazing their stock is doing as if it’s representative of the relationship you have with the company?
“We hear you now let’s sell you XYZ”
“Oh wait we failed you on something? Guess you need ABC!”