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The forces of resistance to change and the pro-services culture at IBM are strong. Very strong. See how far the desire and will to change goes when placed up ag
by rexreed 4y ago
The forces of resistance to change and the pro-services culture at IBM are strong. Very strong. See how far the desire and will to change goes when placed up against the marketing and sales culture at IBM and pressures from the market.
- jldugger 4y ago> The forces of resistance to change and the pro-services culture at IBM are strong. Very strong. Well yea, most of their headcount is consultants now, right? Corporate America might not be a democracy but neither can executives change the culture by edict.
- efitz 4y agoOrly? Satya Nadella ended the Windows/Office duopoly at Microsoft. A lot (most?) of the OG senior leadership left. No more proprietary OS lock-ins; Windows even can run Linux in a subsystem now (WSL). VSCode is open source. I’d say he’s been fairly successful in changing the corporate culture. Time will tell if Azure is any worse or better than the other cloud providers wrt lock-in.