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Business is different from technology. This is a business post masquerading as a post about technical innovation. My take home from this is that IBM is probab

by LASR 4y ago

Business is different from technology. This is a business post masquerading as a post about technical innovation. My take home from this is that IBM is probably going to have a competitive AI cloud offering.

unmole 4y ago
> IBM is probably going to have a competitive AI cloud offering Colour me sceptical.
- rfrey 4y ago
  "IBM is probably going to try to compete with an AI cloud offering"
- awill 4y ago
  me too. Literally, IBM is a me too company. They haven't innovated in years. Their marketing department is probably larger than their engineering department. I actually interviewed at IBM 15 or so years ago. They had me attend this seminar for an hour before the interview. They spent the whole seminar bragging about IBM's past, including how the IBM brand was #2 in the world (after Coca-Cola). Seriously. They didn't talk about tech, their future, or any cool problems they were working on. Just their brand. Ironically, their brand keeps becoming less and less significant each year.
  - rbanffy 4y ago
    > They haven't innovated in years Erm.. They do quite a lot R&D and are still a quite impressive basic research powerhouse. The cache architecture of the new z-series CPU is absolutely awesome, as well as their work in disaggregation of processing and memory on their POWER architecture. Also, their quantum computers are on the forefront of the field (even though we don't quite know what we can do with them). I wish their cloud offerings had things like POWER and s390x Linux down to tiny machines and that they had a free tier (because both POWER and Z can be segmented into vanishingly thin slices of a computer)
    - awill 4y ago
      The world is the process of moving from x86 to Arm. This is a huge opportunity for lots of tech companies. So what does IBM do? Innovate on POWER and s390x. Why? Because they need to avoid competition, because they'll lose.

by LASR 4y ago

unmole 4y ago

> IBM is probably going to have a competitive AI cloud offering Colour me sceptical.

rfrey 4y ago
"IBM is probably going to try to compete with an AI cloud offering"
awill 4y ago
me too. Literally, IBM is a me too company. They haven't innovated in years. Their marketing department is probably larger than their engineering department. I actually interviewed at IBM 15 or so years ago. They had me attend this seminar for an hour before the interview. They spent the whole seminar bragging about IBM's past, including how the IBM brand was #2 in the world (after Coca-Cola). Seriously. They didn't talk about tech, their future, or any cool problems they were working on. Just their brand. Ironically, their brand keeps becoming less and less significant each year.
- rbanffy 4y ago
  > They haven't innovated in years Erm.. They do quite a lot R&D and are still a quite impressive basic research powerhouse. The cache architecture of the new z-series CPU is absolutely awesome, as well as their work in disaggregation of processing and memory on their POWER architecture. Also, their quantum computers are on the forefront of the field (even though we don't quite know what we can do with them). I wish their cloud offerings had things like POWER and s390x Linux down to tiny machines and that they had a free tier (because both POWER and Z can be segmented into vanishingly thin slices of a computer)
  - awill 4y ago
    The world is the process of moving from x86 to Arm. This is a huge opportunity for lots of tech companies. So what does IBM do? Innovate on POWER and s390x. Why? Because they need to avoid competition, because they'll lose.