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> 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?
by 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.