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After the Red Hat mess I see many people saying IBM destroys everything they touch, but I can't think of many examples of it. Can you tell me what else IBM has destroyed after acquiring it, or something good that they themselves developed and then ruined it with stupid corporate choices?

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[–] Audbol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are you saying IBM isn't innovative? Dude, they like, effectively invented computers. The stuff they are doing with power10, their big mainframe systems and quantum computers (which I'm not sure if you are aware, aren't profitable at all). If anything I would say IBM is the company that is innovating, nobody else is getting nearly as far in the future as they are.

[–] Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, they've been innovative years ago, but I feel like they haven't been releasing any disruptive tech for a while now

[–] jestyr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

No, they have some really awesome stuff, and they were driving to the edge in a lot of interesting areas. I just mean that they lose sight of the possible whenever the grim reaper of quarterly profits comes around. When MBAs run the show instead of engineers. Same thing happened with the Boeing 737 MAX. In my opinion short sighted drive for profit will almost always win in today’s publicly traded spaces.

This is a very narrow opinion and obviously doesn’t cover every scenario at every company, or even all of IBM. Just one person’s opinion on the internet.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

they like, effectively invented computers

Momentum on past cred is part of their schtick, for sure.