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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 Lo

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...