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IBM have been doing this since Deep Blue, if not older. It's their core business model: build cool tech demos and then sell consulting deployments that use none
by hopler 8y ago
IBM have been doing this since Deep Blue, if not older. It's their core business model: build cool tech demos and then sell consulting deployments that use nonexistent features of the tech
- ethbro 8y ago> sell consulting deployments that use nonexistent features of the tech Sell consulting deployments that hope to fund development of promised features of the tech. Consulting is a bit like used car selling. If you're not playing close to the line, then someone else is. Which, okay. Is what it is. But every customer should be aware this is what IBM et al.'s business model is, unless you're simply buying bodies.
- RichardCA 8y agoI think it runs deeper than that. I think the mythology of the "Electronic Brain" goes back to the 60's and all the Space Age idealism about technology. Maybe I'm just naive, but I really think that strand still exists in IBM's corporate DNA. They still see this as solvable given sufficient time and effort.