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Re:IBM’s Old Playbook by nnforall on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:29PM (#18330508)
So you're saying IBM is more like Kodak?
Re:IBM’s Old Playbook by dsmithatx on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:20PM (#18331617)
Kodak like Sears made money on retail consumers. IBM like Microsoft make a majority of revenue on Enterprise customers and service contracts.
Re:IBM’s Old Playbook by gaius on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @04:32AM (#18334749)
I’m not sure that’s true. In the days of film the average consumer shot <1 roll per year. Whereas a professional photographer would shoot a dozen or more rolls per day. Their biggest customers would have been newspapers and studios buying 10,000 rolls at a time on a regular basis
Re:IBM’s Old Playbook by mack1001 on Monday October 29, 2018 @11:44PM (#18333879)
Have you heard of EDS? How about HP global? They were selling to enterprises and still became obsolete..