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IBM has been heading toward the ground for thirty years, and they never seem to hit it. Whatever problems they have, they are both diversified and deeply entren
by Miraste 2y ago
IBM has been heading toward the ground for thirty years, and they never seem to hit it. Whatever problems they have, they are both diversified and deeply entrenched in all kinds of government and S&P 500 systems and processes, to the point that their performance barely matters. Intel doesn't have anything like that to paper over their deficiencies.
- robotnikman 2y agoPlenty of places still running AS/400 on crazy high support contracts, and no plans of moving on.
- marcosdumay 2y ago> crazy high Not high enough that it can't go higher. Maybe somebody should make a betting site around when the next order-of-magnitude increase on the rent of AS/400 hardware will come. With 6 months granularity. IMO, the people without a plan are crazy. But yeah, there's plenty of them.
- bob1029 2y agoIBM runs much of US banking and insurance. Their hardware is actually fairly remarkable. If you have a certain kind of mission, it really makes sense to build a bunker around some mainframes.