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I'm sorry, I was totally on board and in full agreement with your comment until you mentioned IBM. Am I correct in understanding you're calling Watson a success
by ZeroCool2u 6y ago
I'm sorry, I was totally on board and in full agreement with your comment until you mentioned IBM. Am I correct in understanding you're calling Watson a successful recovery for IBM? Jobs returning to Apple, sure. But I don't think I know anyone that would describe IBM as anything other than a flagging behemoth. Please, feel free to convince me otherwise, maybe I missed something.
- gumby 6y agoI mean Thomas J. Watson Sr (turned CTR into IBM) and Thomas J Watson Jr (turned IBM into a computer company), not the dumb software platform that the sad, current IBM is overselling. Perhaps you didn't realize why the program bears that name. Gerstner was astonishing too. I just thought of him as the "cookie guy" when he showed up. But he saved a company that was spiraling towards the ground...he didn't restore it to its former glory but did bring it back to a successful life. An achievement subsequently squandered.
- ZeroCool2u 6y agoOh, that makes so much more sense. Thanks so much for clarifying!
- kken 6y agoI guess he referred to Thomas J. Watson, not the "AI" Watson.
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- whatusername 6y agoYou missed what Waston was named after. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/building-the-system360-mainframe-nearly-destroyed-ibm https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/bu... S/360 was/is a big deal in history.