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Is there anything left of IBM after a couple of decades of hollowing-out by MBAs and financialization, isn't it just shell by now?
by jacknews 3y ago
Is there anything left of IBM after a couple of decades of hollowing-out by MBAs and financialization, isn't it just shell by now?
- pjmlp 3y agoThe money priting machine that pays the salaries of people working on Linux kernel, GNOME, Java, Red-Hat Linux and GCC, as an example.
- jacknews 3y agoDid IBM start paying more after acquiring those guys? I don't follow anymore but I'm sure you're right there's still a ton of revenue from the old businesses and their locked-in customers. Probably like a white dwarf, it'll keep burning almost forever, cooling slowly.
- pjmlp 3y agoThey have been paying since around 2000 already.