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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by pishpash on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:31PM (#24723592)
They are indeed incompetent, since a large chunk of competent people won't go there any more. But what kind of financial voodoo is keeping them afloat? Is it another Sears in waiting?
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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by coliveira on Friday October 09, 2020 @12:27AM (#24726822)
Present day IBM is not very different from GE. It is a financial company trying to survive from profits in areas it monopolizes. Without anything else to do, GE is going down hard and now is being investigated by the SEC for "accounting practices", i.e., financial manipulation to keep the company alive.
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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by lmm on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:12AM (#24727311)
They're effective as an Oracle-like consulting company that buys third-party products, integrates them into their platform, and then cross-sells them hard.
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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by rusticpenn on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:34AM (#24727971)
They seem to have a good research division. I learnt a lot form their research on neural hardware during my PhD
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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies by Aperocky on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:58PM (#24726292)
An enron Enron goes down in 10 or so years, an not so enron Enron might last a good 20 or 30 years.
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