What does ibm do these days?
What does ibm do these days?
Michael Turner
Kayden Martinez
The BM part.
Bentley Price
Mediocre consulting, and selling off business units, so they can pour money into watson, and let it bleed their company dry.
Carter Bennett
they are about the release the first commercial quantum computer:
chemistryworld.com
>inb4 D-Wave
Cameron Jones
Bad consulting.
Overprices outsourcing.
Basically Accenture with a niche server division.
Christian Russell
>Number of employees 380,300
what the FUCK
Jaxon Hall
Doesn't count the billion pahjeet subcontractors.
Wyatt Morris
Mostly make and distribute systems you'll never have anything to do with.
Levi Long
Cloud and Watson
Christian Foster
Bump
Jace Hill
They make mainframes, just like they have for the past 60 years.
Jace White
THE
DANKESTEST
MEMES
Anthony Wright
why don't these faggots just move to x86-64 like everybody else
Kayden Cook
Because POWER still rocks.
Justin Green
Consulting, and they still have some enterprise software products like Bix Fix. Believe it or not people still use lotus too.
Kevin Morris
because POWER architecture is great for the parallel computing those machines do
Nathan Harris
IBM z doesn't use POWER.
It has its own crazy CISC processor that's backward compatible way back to the mainframes IBM sold in the 60s.
Jonathan Adams
So banks are still running programs that were written by some nerd 40 years ago?
Camden White
Yes
That's why they're buying IBM z, which costs like $2M minimum.
They don't want to pay someone to rewrite programs someone wrote first in punch cards 50 years ago.
Lucas Brown
i don't know but i told my boss she should call them to come fix our fuck up of a system and get us a new system working.
Matthew Bell
Tape libraries also.
Isaac Collins
>60s
>40 years ago
helo darknes my old friend
Oliver Mitchell
Elijah Cook
MMmmmm IBM z
can run 40,000 VMs at once
yes please
Hudson James
They're getting into the medical industry, for one. Gonna use Watson for individualized treatment and to administer algorithmic treatment routines.
Jonathan Torres
1960 was 57 years ago, not 40.
Ian Sullivan
i know
Dylan Williams
R&D, POWER, mainframes, consulting
Because x86 isn't a good idea for their mainframes and POWER's better than it too. It'd be an all around downgrade.
Chase Hall
AIX and TSM are still going strong.
Run both at my work.
Isaac Scott
use Macs
Wyatt James
Noah when I was a kid the 60s were only 30 years ago and now I'm over 30 years old wtf hippies were within the range of my current lifetime back then shit
Hunter Morales
>They don't want to pay someone to rewrite programs someone wrote first in punch cards 50 years ago.
It's just that nobody made anything that can replace CISC + COBOL in terms of reliability and security yet.
Carter Torres
oh god this is true. I feel like I'm the only thinkpad user there sometimes. makes me feel bad