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IBM sells itself to customers as an IT company, but its true core competency is selling itself to customers who think it's an IT company. There are some very s
by wtbob 13y ago
IBM sells itself to customers as an IT company, but its true core competency is selling itself to customers who think it's an IT company. There are some very smart people there, but for the most part they mistakenly thought they were going to work for an IT company, or they are in the part which is just marketing (IBM Research comes out with some truly amazing stuff, which is basically just marketing to convince companies to buy services from IBM).
- gallinaponedora 13y agoExactly. And there's nothing wrong with marketing, as long as the money comes along, which is all that "right" is: money. Some of these techies who write blogs are as smart as they are shortsighted.