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.
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.
Uh ibm’s not gone…
Nope, that would make it a very stupid analogy.
But IBM is just a tiny shadow of their former glory, of almost complete dominance of business computers of any size.
According to the article Google/Alphabet is losing their leadership position too, in much the same way.
Might as well be, it’s not really IBM anymore.
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
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)
Mainframes are still the shit in the world of financial transactions.
Cries in COBOL.
Why cry?
That’s what the C in COBOL stands for.
Cry-inducing Old Business-Oriented Language.
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.
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.
Norways it’s mostly a software company. IBM people keep talking about cloud, AI and all that stuff.
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.