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Don't want to sound too mean but this is not the first time IBM overpromised and underdelivered. Anyone surprised by this?

dredmorbius 8y ago
Tech marketing tends to flaut the Scotty Principle to the extreme.
PaulHoule 8y ago
To be fair, IBM has succeeded at big jobs too. For instance, they developed software for the Apollo mission and the Space Shuttle. The IBM/360. The IBM PC. AS/400.
- oldgradstudent 8y ago
  I don't think there's anyone who disagrees that IBM was a great company once. Do you have a more recent example? something that happened several years after Louis Gerstner first assumed leadership.
  - Barrin92 8y ago
    They're still solid in the supercomputer space, no? BlueGene, and Summit and Sierra more recently are IBM projects. Admittedly though given their pretty large size I can't name much else.
    - trimbo 8y ago
      > Admittedly though given their pretty large size I can't name much else. Exactly. Even if 20,000 people worked on those supercomputers, mainframes and Watson, what do the other 350,000 employees work on? Consulting, and it's been that way since Gerstner.
      - mjfl 8y ago
        and what is "consulting"?
        kikoreis 8y ago
        Customer specific projects similar to what other integrators like Ericsson, Nokia (telco) and Accenture, ATOS, etc do elsewhere.
  - downrightmike 8y ago
    They are really good at cashing checks and charging more on top of that: http://www.investigativepost.org/2018/02/19/taxpayers-fund-ibms-dysfunctional-call-center/ http://www.investigativepost.org/2018/02/19/taxpayers-fund-i...
- secfirstmd 8y ago
  Yes IBM also developed for the Nazis during the Holocaust...
  - colejohnson66 8y ago
    And? The people that did that are long gone
- maxxxxx 8y ago
  The IBM before around 1990 and today’s IBM are totally different companies. The only thing that’s the same is the name. Same could be said for HP.
  - peteradio 8y ago
    Excuse me but the logo is also the same. ;)
return0 8y ago
Yep they are e.g. overhyping their neurmorphic platform too I hope that's not the case for their quantum computer
- craftinator 8y ago
  But can their quantum computer factor the number "15"?

dredmorbius 8y ago

Tech marketing tends to flaut the Scotty Principle to the extreme.

PaulHoule 8y ago

To be fair, IBM has succeeded at big jobs too. For instance, they developed software for the Apollo mission and the Space Shuttle. The IBM/360. The IBM PC. AS/400.

oldgradstudent 8y ago
I don't think there's anyone who disagrees that IBM was a great company once. Do you have a more recent example? something that happened several years after Louis Gerstner first assumed leadership.
- Barrin92 8y ago
  They're still solid in the supercomputer space, no? BlueGene, and Summit and Sierra more recently are IBM projects. Admittedly though given their pretty large size I can't name much else.
  - trimbo 8y ago
    > Admittedly though given their pretty large size I can't name much else. Exactly. Even if 20,000 people worked on those supercomputers, mainframes and Watson, what do the other 350,000 employees work on? Consulting, and it's been that way since Gerstner.
    - mjfl 8y ago
      and what is "consulting"?
      - kikoreis 8y ago
        Customer specific projects similar to what other integrators like Ericsson, Nokia (telco) and Accenture, ATOS, etc do elsewhere.
- downrightmike 8y ago
  They are really good at cashing checks and charging more on top of that: http://www.investigativepost.org/2018/02/19/taxpayers-fund-ibms-dysfunctional-call-center/ http://www.investigativepost.org/2018/02/19/taxpayers-fund-i...
secfirstmd 8y ago
Yes IBM also developed for the Nazis during the Holocaust...
- colejohnson66 8y ago
  And? The people that did that are long gone
maxxxxx 8y ago
The IBM before around 1990 and today’s IBM are totally different companies. The only thing that’s the same is the name. Same could be said for HP.
- peteradio 8y ago
  Excuse me but the logo is also the same. ;)

return0 8y ago

Yep they are e.g. overhyping their neurmorphic platform too I hope that's not the case for their quantum computer

craftinator 8y ago
But can their quantum computer factor the number "15"?