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Can't imagine hiring IBM to manage any software project if they can't even work their own email.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Can't imagine hiring IBM to manage any software project if they can't even work their own email.
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- gogopuppygogo 5y agoThey support their AS400 line. No one else in the market. This plus some companies they bought (e.g. redhat) is all that IBM is left as today.
- outside1234 5y agoThey have a 1.8% market share in cloud, to be fair (probably about 99.5% of which is their own usage internally)
- krylon 5y agoIt's kind of strange, though, they're not doing better in that department. I remember they launched a cloud-like offering around 2005, hosting customers' applications in multiple globally distributed data centers, with full redundancy, load balancing, etc. I suppose the world wasn't ready for that back then.
- krylon 5y agoThey have their mainframes, too. Not a big market, but highly lucrative, AFAIK. I read something about the mainframe division contributing 10% of their revenue but 25% of their profits.
- foolmeonce 5y agoRather, I would not buy a software product from them or accept any project that depended on one since they eventually will sell it to some smaller company to dump it, apparently even when they still need it themselves. Reminds me of this recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517846 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517846