Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI”

Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by graycat on Friday May 05, 2023 @04:23AM (#35826649)

> If that wasn't true we'd all be using Microsoft phones (or heck, IBM PCs AND phones).

Once an IBM Office Manager was offering me a job and explained

"IBM is a marketing organization."

So, the focus was not really on computers or phones but on the central, crucial, bet your business data processing of the larger and largest companies -- banking, insurance, manufacturing, ..., and marketing to them.

So, the focus of IBM was really on their target customers. So, if some target customers needed something, then IBM would design, build, and deliver it.

That may still be their focus.

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Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by killjoywashere on Friday May 05, 2023 @04:44AM (#35826765)

Yeah, as a government buyer, IBM is indistinguishable from the other big integrator/consulting firms (BAH, Deloitte, Lockheed, Mitre to an extent). Literally, whatever we want, they will swear they can build. The challenge is getting the spec right.

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