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Plenty bro. Guess what? When you're bought, you now are a part of that company. Anything that purchased company makes is now made by IBM. What hope is there? Ar
by stoicform 11y ago
Plenty bro. Guess what? When you're bought, you now are a part of that company. Anything that purchased company makes is now made by IBM. What hope is there? Are you kidding me? Have you seen Berkshire Hathaway? Have you ever heard of Berkshire Hathaway?!
- padseeker 11y agoMaybe I wasn't clear enough. What has IBM either made or bought that is GROWING and has big upside? What have they bought that is fairly recent and is highly popular? Lotus notes and rational are older applications. Who the heck uses DB2 instead of Oracle/MySQL/Postgres? When was the last time you heard of a company becoming a new customer of DB2? Of choosing DB2 over the other database products on the market? Maybe they do make stuff but I have not heard of them buying anything relatively new on the market that is popular. Oracle is always buying new companies and adding them to their offerings (Workday, BigMachines to name a few). What is new that IBM bought that is GROWING? Lotus Notes, Rational and DB2 are not GROWING. Berkshire Hathaway buys companies that are growing. Name a company that IBM bought that is adding new customers.
- stoicform 11y agoAny company that supports cloud. Revenue of cloud department is 8%-10% of IBM's revenue. It grew from last year. It's projected to grow yet again this upcoming year. We've continuously added on customers in several of the cloud companies that were purchased. I'm in one of those cloud companies that was purchased. Our customer count is going up leading to our revenue going up, contributing to IBM's overall cloud push.