• db2@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yeah but they don’t do anything anymore. They create nothing, they innovate nothing, they build nothing. They’re a “service company” now. It’s not at all a shock that they’re failing to anyone but them themselves. IBM should never have green lit that brainless brain drain shift of focus.

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      8 months ago

      That’s entirely untrue. IBM does mega projects and research for things the average consumer wouldn’t know or care about. Their customer base is industries, not people.

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      8 months ago

      An IBM Power9 supercomputer built in 2018 is #7 on the top500.org supercomputer list. That’s not nothing.

      Dunno if they’re going anywhere now though or if that was their last hurrah.

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        they don’t advertize it because they don’t think its sexy or whatever but their mainframe business is still going strong if only because they’re the last player left in the market

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      8 months ago

      Having worked for a couple chip design shops, and now at ibm… ibm is the one of a few companies pushing the envelope in chip design. You just don’t need what they make, so you’ve never heard of it.

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      8 months ago

      Last I read IBM was one of the big companies pursuing R&D in quantum computers and such plus they have some software stuff like crimestat and the weather channel under their umbrella.

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      8 months ago

      As a IBM developer - ouch man, that hurts. I guess I’ll just go back my job doing… nothing (actually sounds like a sweet job)

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        8 months ago

        You’ve experienced the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory in practice. For all you know that statement could have been made by someone who’s never needed an IBM product/solution, or is 16, living in mummy and daddy’s basement. For those of us with 20+ years in software, we know what you do and contribute. While I may not always agree with the philosophies of IBM’s solutions, you fill a super important need in many areas where not that many people have the capability to play. I’ve hired from and lost people to IBM and have nothing but positive things to say; there’s very much a customer-focused execution culture.

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        Fucking ignorant innuendo enjoyers, the lot of em. Badmouth IBM for enshitifying CentOS but “making nothing” … yeah, no.

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      8 months ago

      They also do quite a bit of engineering r&d stuff.

      They just sell the licenses for their solutions and research now rather than directly making products from it.

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      8 months ago

      Fedora —> Red Hat —> IBM.

      They are actually quite an innovation company and while their culture can be quite moribund in some of their offices, others are extremely buzzy places with lots of proud employees. It’s complicated, thus.

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      8 months ago

      You just have no idea what they do, clearly. That doesn’t mean they don’t do anything.

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      8 months ago

      IBM is still just as active, just not in the consumer markets anymore. They’re big into industry research and more specialized computing these days.