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I have a feeling IBM doesn't even know what they want to be themselves, let alone their acquisitions. What they do now is dabble in a bit of consultancy, a bit

I have a feeling IBM doesn't even know what they want to be themselves, let alone their acquisitions. What they do now is dabble in a bit of consultancy, a bit of datacenter ops, a bit of software and some servers here and there. And of course all the support on their legacy mainframe stuff. But when they have something that really stands out like the Thinkpad line they divest it. It's almost as if they don't want to be noticed or something. I don't know. I never thought their RedHat acquisition was a good thing for RedHat, though I never thought RedHat was a very good company to begin with. When Microsoft acquires Ubuntu (and I'm surprised this hasn't happened yet) they have more good stuff to mess up. Which I'm sure they will. And it seems like Canonical in anticipation of the acquisition has already started going the wrong way themselves.

jskrablin 4y ago
I've been through an IBM acquisition a few years ago, peak Openstack time. They don't know what they're doing or what they want to achieve. They're trying to buy something that would keep em relevant but the end results are usually just sad. Early version of IBM cloud was unstable to a point I couldn't even use it for personal experiments. Last I heard it's still not very close to being reliable, while their middle management is always obsessing about Gartner magic quadrant or whatever that is. It's a dinosaur firmly on its way to extinction along with everything they buy along the way.