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Re:IBM ordered to hand over ex-CEO emails plotting cuts in o... by jldugger on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @04:22PM (#31745522)
> The forces of resistance to change and the pro-services culture at IBM are strong. Very strong.

Well yea, most of their headcount is consultants now, right? Corporate America might not be a democracy but neither can executives change the culture by edict.

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Re:IBM ordered to hand over ex-CEO emails plotting cuts in o... by efitz on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:30PM (#31747305)
Orly? Satya Nadella ended the Windows/Office duopoly at Microsoft. A lot (most?) of the OG senior leadership left.

No more proprietary OS lock-ins; Windows even can run Linux in a subsystem now (WSL). VSCode is open source.

I’d say he’s been fairly successful in changing the corporate culture.

Time will tell if Azure is any worse or better than the other cloud providers wrt lock-in.

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