Years of being one-upped on AI and cracking down on innovation turned the poster child for Silicon Valley cool into a dinosaur.

Google is the new IBM::Years of being one-upped on AI and cracking down on innovation turned the poster child for Silicon Valley cool into a dinosaur.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      213·
      2 年前

      Nope, that would make it a very stupid analogy.
      But IBM is just a tiny shadow of their former glory, of almost complete dominance of business computers of any size.
      According to the article Google/Alphabet is losing their leadership position too, in much the same way.

      • femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        271·
        2 年前

        They have a stranglehold on enterprise computing after they ate redhat, and they still make insane mainframes, they’ve just left the consumer world (which makes sense given their name i guess)

        • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.worldEnglish
          132·
          2 年前

          I wouldn’t go that far, there’s been a mass exodus from Redhat and they’re hardly the only game in town when it comes to mainframes. You do have a point though.

          • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            195·
            2 年前

            The mass exodus from RH has been massively overstated. It’s mostly a bunch of Redditors and Lemmings saying “omg I’ll never use RHEL now, even though I never have”, but in reality, they’ve not seen an exodus.

            I do think their actions have a good chance of causing damage in the long term, though.

              • elshandra@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                2 年前

                How did that work out? We used sles in the past (moved to rhel6). Management of larger environments has been easier with rhel, but we’ve slowly been decoupling from redhat-isms. Satellite is just doing drm -the only thing that gives us grief- and repos now.

      • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 年前

        As someone who runs a fleet of series i machines running as400, they’re doing just as well today as they were 40 years ago

      • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        12·
        2 年前

        Norways it’s mostly a software company. IBM people keep talking about cloud, AI and all that stuff.

        • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          2 年前

          It’s a trend-hopping company. Always 1-2 years behind actually valuable topics, but on the forefront on any useless bullshit you can think of.