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Oh wow, an odd convergence of two of my IBM careers... Dennis Kennelly was in charge of the part of Tivoli I worked for for a while about 15 years ago and then

by Nursie 4y ago

Oh wow, an odd convergence of two of my IBM careers... Dennis Kennelly was in charge of the part of Tivoli I worked for for a while about 15 years ago and then about 7 years ago I consulted for a year with the Storwize storage folks... Well, it'll happen, unfortunately. Everything that Big Blue buys will eventually be assimilated. Unfortunately the next phase is usually a few years of tightening budgets, then beyond that 'buying another thing to replace it'.

yourapostasy 4y ago
Blue Washing never ceases to amuse me. > Unfortunately the next phase is usually a few years of tightening budgets... This happens because post-Blue Washing, execs want to quickly drive cash towards shareholders and bonuses towards themselves, and the easiest way to do that is to slash budgets. This translates into losing the best and brightest, and... > ...then beyond that 'buying another thing to replace it'. This doesn't happen at 1:1 product granularity as much as many think it does. It is more a big swap of strategic focus, which happens to include large, splashy purchases of other assets that gets lots of attention while existing steady revenue generators get metaphorically tossed aside if not budget-wise, then management focus-wise.