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People are horrified because IBM is a sinking ship and a monolithic big business that will attempt to look at everything from a fiscal perspective with no real

People are horrified because IBM is a sinking ship and a monolithic big business that will attempt to look at everything from a fiscal perspective with no real love for what made Redhat great. Is IBM really going to give Systemd, Fedora, the full time kernel maintainers a break and pay them to make “unprofitable” software? We’re also seeing the end of independence that was making the open source model work with dignity. It was a huge milestone for the company and many people view this as a regression.

lonelappde 7y ago
What's the antibody response? Can someone else pick up the mantle of wrapping Fedora in an Enterprise offering?
rusticpenn 7y ago
IBM spends so much on R&D. I am not sure if the company is solely focussed on short term profits.
- fny 7y ago
  IBM spends a fraction of what other household names spend. > That’s according to an analysis by Recode, which found the e-commerce giant [Amazon] spent nearly $23 billion on R&D in 2017. Technology companies rounded out the top five, collectively spending $76 billion on R&D last year. The other tech companies that spent the most on R&D were Alphabet (GOOG), Intel Corp. (INTC), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Apple Inc. (AAPL). Alphabet was in second place with R&D spending of $16.6 billion while Intel had spending of $13.1 billion and Microsoft spent $12.3 billion. Apple rounded out the top five with $11.6 billion. Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) spent $10.4 billion while Ford Motor Co. (F) weighed in with 2017 R&D spending of $8 billion. Potentially telling, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), once the innovator in techland, spent the least at $5.4 billion. (See also: IBM Traders See Stock Plunging 20%.) [0]: https://www.investopedia.com/news/amazons-23b-rd-budget-sets-record-recode/ https://www.investopedia.com/news/amazons-23b-rd-budget-sets...
  - kortilla 7y ago
    So half of what Apple spent? That’s hardly damning.
  - jpalomaki 7y ago
    Just to note, the Amazon figure does not seem to be comparable to others. Amazon does not report R&D spend, but “Technology and content” spend. This includes for example AWS infrastructure. https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/06/13/how-much-does-amazon-spend-on-rd-less-than-you-thi.aspx https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/06/13/how-much-does-amaz...
- opportune 7y ago
  "R&D" is a bit of a misnomer in the software world. Lots of things are technically R&D that you wouldn't think of as R&D

lonelappde 7y ago

What's the antibody response? Can someone else pick up the mantle of wrapping Fedora in an Enterprise offering?

rusticpenn 7y ago

IBM spends so much on R&D. I am not sure if the company is solely focussed on short term profits.

fny 7y ago
IBM spends a fraction of what other household names spend. > That’s according to an analysis by Recode, which found the e-commerce giant [Amazon] spent nearly $23 billion on R&D in 2017. Technology companies rounded out the top five, collectively spending $76 billion on R&D last year. The other tech companies that spent the most on R&D were Alphabet (GOOG), Intel Corp. (INTC), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Apple Inc. (AAPL). Alphabet was in second place with R&D spending of $16.6 billion while Intel had spending of $13.1 billion and Microsoft spent $12.3 billion. Apple rounded out the top five with $11.6 billion. Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) spent $10.4 billion while Ford Motor Co. (F) weighed in with 2017 R&D spending of $8 billion. Potentially telling, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), once the innovator in techland, spent the least at $5.4 billion. (See also: IBM Traders See Stock Plunging 20%.) [0]: https://www.investopedia.com/news/amazons-23b-rd-budget-sets-record-recode/ https://www.investopedia.com/news/amazons-23b-rd-budget-sets...
- kortilla 7y ago
  So half of what Apple spent? That’s hardly damning.
- jpalomaki 7y ago
  Just to note, the Amazon figure does not seem to be comparable to others. Amazon does not report R&D spend, but “Technology and content” spend. This includes for example AWS infrastructure. https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/06/13/how-much-does-amazon-spend-on-rd-less-than-you-thi.aspx https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/06/13/how-much-does-amaz...
opportune 7y ago
"R&D" is a bit of a misnomer in the software world. Lots of things are technically R&D that you wouldn't think of as R&D