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We like to shit on IBM, but they dominated many industries when they tried. IBM pushed Linux very hard and contributed significantly to it's adoption- it would
by dijit 2y ago
We like to shit on IBM, but they dominated many industries when they tried.
IBM pushed Linux very hard and contributed significantly to it's adoption- it would be revisionist to think otherwise.
They also created quite literally legendary laptops, before deciding that they didn't want to and then moved on.
I mean, their stock is not hurting as much as we think of them as a relic of the past: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IBM/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAARSrXSbPLE1Em1YaTKY_aSO4FoKH7KPDV5GoS1TO_FzdI1k-JlMSKk_pIKSsqUFI4qdaJNGm3eNUOdquRJF8RajWQWa90BAq_Bkg9XjGiuK3UpLMC5zKNSPd0B9B0IyeyfWTMK5a23zrd0B4r93u8wdtZZcVdyWs7qnE3U13eRG https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IBM/?guccounter=1&guce_refer...
- toyg 2y agoThey also were pioneers of modern industrial practices. They researched the best approaches to workforce scalability, settling on a model of many distributed offices spread around cheap peripheral suburbs - something that might sound banal today, but it in the 60s/70s, when even factories were supposed to be as close as possible to downtown, it was pretty bold. IBM has many shortcomings but they did manage to survive and navigate a century of tumultuous technological changes. Very few companies have done that.