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Interesting. My observation on IBM is their entire business model is: 1 - Audit your customers 2 - Buy back shares 3 - Force early retirements It was easy t
by mathattack 4mo ago
Interesting. My observation on IBM is their entire business model is:
1 - Audit your customers
2 - Buy back shares
3 - Force early retirements
It was easy to see why Watson failed in that environment. The revenue was “We’ll let you out of the $6mm audit bill if you buy $2mm of Watson”. Companies would agree, install better asset management, and never put Watson into production.
I couldn’t imagine Quantum Comouting surviving there. Spinning it off the best play.
- rr808 4mo agoTheir business model is more like make a lot of noise about high tech, then hire h1bs to do routine IT work their corporate customers do.
- sublinear 4mo agoTheir corporate customers also do that to their own customers.
- coredog64 4mo agoThat's Kyndryl: They spun it off into it's own entity after "IBM Global Services" had such a (deservedly) poor reputation that they were scraping the bottom of the barrel for clients and employees. Not that Kyndryl is any better, but it's enough of a rebrand that you might fool decision makers for the few minutes that it takes to get them to buy in.
- pjmlp 4mo agoAlso buy Red-Hat and in the process own quite a few FOSS projects.
- pjmlp 4mo agoA business model that currently the Linux ecosystem benefits from, between Linux kernel, GCC, Wayland, GNOME, systemd, Java, Go, Rust.
- fsckboy 4mo agothey've just spun off the first quantum computer pure-play, the highest of techs, the greenest of green-fields, and your observation is "IBM doesn't do this"