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.

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      8 months ago

      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)

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      8 months ago

      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.xyz
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      8 months ago

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

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        8 months ago

        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.