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Many startups can only dream of being as long and influential as IBM was.

pjmlp 3y ago
Champion in patents per year in tech, Red-Hat, 2nd major Java implementation, one of the few vendors in quantum computing. That alone looks quite alright for a dying company.
- StillBored 3y ago
  Except roll the clock back a bit and your would have been talking about Lotus, Machine Learning, and Unix/PowerPC. And we see what IBM has done with leadership in those areas, as well as a long line of other areas where they somehow managed to turn themselves into a 3rd rate competitor despite being in the right place at the right time. So, you have to ask yourself, for example how its possible that people are falling over themselves to build a RISCv ecosystem from the ground up, when openpower has been around for a decade now, and IBMs been looking for partners there since the original AIM alliance.
  - pjmlp 3y ago
    Looking at their yearly revenue, doing quite alright. The RISCv ecosystem is a pipe dream that people will finally get it when they start dealing with major boards relying on extensions, or board designs that aren't as open as the CPU itself.
- awesomeMilou 3y ago
  There have yet to evolve practical applications for current quantum computers. No one cares about Java anymore, beyond legacy support. They bought RedHat with their massive reserve of capital from more successful times. IBM is still in business because they can build on massive reserves from the time where they literally created the market for commercial computing. That was indeed influential. Now they slowly burn those reserves and have a crackhead sales team that knows how to sell mainframes and subsequently suck those customers dry. The new generation of graduates has no idea what IBM does, let alone what a mainframe is. New talent for maintaining Cobol codebases is so rare to come by, that they pay the Linux foundation to offer free courses on Cobol. IBM's success is a relict of the past. It will die when the last guy that knows how to maintain Cobol dies. Good riddance.

Champion in patents per year in tech, Red-Hat, 2nd major Java implementation, one of the few vendors in quantum computing. That alone looks quite alright for a dying company.

StillBored 3y ago
Except roll the clock back a bit and your would have been talking about Lotus, Machine Learning, and Unix/PowerPC. And we see what IBM has done with leadership in those areas, as well as a long line of other areas where they somehow managed to turn themselves into a 3rd rate competitor despite being in the right place at the right time. So, you have to ask yourself, for example how its possible that people are falling over themselves to build a RISCv ecosystem from the ground up, when openpower has been around for a decade now, and IBMs been looking for partners there since the original AIM alliance.
- pjmlp 3y ago
  Looking at their yearly revenue, doing quite alright. The RISCv ecosystem is a pipe dream that people will finally get it when they start dealing with major boards relying on extensions, or board designs that aren't as open as the CPU itself.
awesomeMilou 3y ago
There have yet to evolve practical applications for current quantum computers. No one cares about Java anymore, beyond legacy support. They bought RedHat with their massive reserve of capital from more successful times. IBM is still in business because they can build on massive reserves from the time where they literally created the market for commercial computing. That was indeed influential. Now they slowly burn those reserves and have a crackhead sales team that knows how to sell mainframes and subsequently suck those customers dry. The new generation of graduates has no idea what IBM does, let alone what a mainframe is. New talent for maintaining Cobol codebases is so rare to come by, that they pay the Linux foundation to offer free courses on Cobol. IBM's success is a relict of the past. It will die when the last guy that knows how to maintain Cobol dies. Good riddance.