Google is the new IBM::Years of being one-upped on AI and cracking down on innovation turned the poster child for Silicon Valley cool into a dinosaur.

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10 points

Might as well be, it’s not really IBM anymore.

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26 points

They have a stranglehold on enterprise computing after they ate redhat, and they still make insane mainframes, they’ve just left the consumer world (which makes sense given their name i guess)

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11 points

I wouldn’t go that far, there’s been a mass exodus from Redhat and they’re hardly the only game in town when it comes to mainframes. You do have a point though.

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The mass exodus from RH has been massively overstated. It’s mostly a bunch of Redditors and Lemmings saying “omg I’ll never use RHEL now, even though I never have”, but in reality, they’ve not seen an exodus.

I do think their actions have a good chance of causing damage in the long term, though.

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8 points

Mainframes are still the shit in the world of financial transactions.

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6 points

Cries in COBOL.

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6 points

As someone who runs a fleet of series i machines running as400, they’re doing just as well today as they were 40 years ago

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Norways it’s mostly a software company. IBM people keep talking about cloud, AI and all that stuff.

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2 points

It’s a trend-hopping company. Always 1-2 years behind actually valuable topics, but on the forefront on any useless bullshit you can think of.

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