Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The IBM slow death

IBM is dying, and its killing me. The company that brought so much technology and innovation to the world The leader in patents, the leader in Operating System, the inventor of thin film technology, the inventor of most compression algorithms for Audio and Video, the leader in memory and storage quality,  the largest investor in Technology R&D in the world has CANCER.

Go look it up even HTML was invented at IBM (called GML). Its a long arduous death. Lead by a person who only wants a parachute as big as the last CEO. IBM say's they are about mobile, and the cloud and big data and a few other HYPE things. IBM was about the pursuit of excellence, and great people, and the best customer service. Right now they focus on spreadsheets, and the stock market. If you focus on the best you can do for clients, making things that people want, you don't have to worry about Wallstreet.

IBM will be out of the HW business in 36 months..the Power Platform is all about dead, the sold off their Chip manufacturing, they can't compete in the intel space even thigh they lost the data center to intel based products. And why? becsue they decided to not run Microsoft on Power in 2001. Instead of VMware IBM wold have Virtualized Windows? why not DB2 for windows? IBM INVESTED SQL! and the RDBMS. Now they are also rans..chasing someones else's idea's and ideals.

I can keep going.. and will..till next time stick to the consulting truth. Good consultants say yes GREAT consultants say no..