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They spend their time navigating the bureaucracy of DoD contracts. IBM is still around because they have contracts with the pentagon. Bidding upon these contrac
by gustavus 3y ago
They spend their time navigating the bureaucracy of DoD contracts. IBM is still around because they have contracts with the pentagon. Bidding upon these contracts is a route very rarely taken because it is the kind of process that takes years and knowledge that usually can only be recovered using a pentagram. As a result IBM will continue to exist as long as they continue to hold those Defense contracts that are 1. Extremely lucrative, 2. Long term and 3. Very difficult for anyone else to get involved in.
But rest assured the entire nuclear arsenal of democracy is currently probably running on an old ASM/400 sitting in the broom closet in some Air Force base somewhere.