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Re:IBM Mainframe Business Jumps 67% by verdverm on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @07:39PM (#46804036)
Was, IBM hired me to teach watson law, what I saw as a mess, more management than developers. I was laid off 5 weeks after starting, the project was cancelled within the year

IBM is too dysfunctional to innovate like Big Tech has been

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Re:IBM Mainframe Business Jumps 67% by pjmlp on Thursday January 29, 2026 @01:30AM (#46806553)
And yet Big Tech depends on technology owned by IBM, and also has luck the company isn't one that routinely does lawsuits due to patents.

Anything Red-Hat touches, like GNOME, GCC, Linux kernel, postman, anything Java is mostly done by Oracle, Red-Hat and IBM as the main ecosystem corporate drivers, PS3 used Cell,....

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Re:IBM Mainframe Business Jumps 67% by verdverm on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:45AM (#46811702)
IBM is more often the subject of lawsuits from their employees

I'm 2nd gen, I remember the country clubs and IBM Santa. The company no longer cares about its people the way Watson father & son did.

> And yet Big Tech depends on technology owned by IBM

The opposite is true too. We live in a highly interdependent and interconnected world.

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