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People forget that a company known as IBM went bankrupt, was sold and reborn as a consulting enterprise like Accenture or McKinsey. The only thing that remained
by piokoch 2y ago
People forget that a company known as IBM went bankrupt, was sold and reborn as a consulting enterprise like Accenture or McKinsey. The only thing that remained from the olden days are servers, in particularly z-series, which are modern days equivalents of mainframe solutions (and they are pretty awesome).
- rbanffy 2y agoThey almost went bankrupt. Starting with Lou Gerstner, IBM cut out the least profitable parts (commodity PCs, then, later, commodity servers), and focused on services (which also acts as a sales enabler) and high-margin hardware and software.
- perching_aix 2y agoSounds like you might be personally familiar with (their?) mainframes. Could you explain what's awesome about them, and what even are mainframes? Whenever I tried looking into this, I walked away with "just servers networked together".