IBM launches voluntary redundancy scheme in latest job cuts
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Global 'Resource Actions' to hit Europe hard, with Enterprise Ops & Support, CIO, HR and Real Estate in firing line
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Wow, IBM is still around?

@shalafi@lemmy.world
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Our tech leans heavily on AS400s, if you can believe that. And we have 98% market share in our space. They’re complex, but they work, and don’t fail.

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I worked with that and COBOL lol. I’ll never be without a job I guess.

DB2 isn’t terrible tbh but of course I want to use something like postgres if I had the choice.

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Yeah but they don’t do anything anymore. They create nothing, they innovate nothing, they build nothing. They’re a “service company” now. It’s not at all a shock that they’re failing to anyone but them themselves. IBM should never have green lit that brainless brain drain shift of focus.

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That’s entirely untrue. IBM does mega projects and research for things the average consumer wouldn’t know or care about. Their customer base is industries, not people.

Having worked for a couple chip design shops, and now at ibm… ibm is the one of a few companies pushing the envelope in chip design. You just don’t need what they make, so you’ve never heard of it.

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You just have no idea what they do, clearly. That doesn’t mean they don’t do anything.

Last I read IBM was one of the big companies pursuing R&D in quantum computers and such plus they have some software stuff like crimestat and the weather channel under their umbrella.

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They also do quite a bit of engineering r&d stuff.

They just sell the licenses for their solutions and research now rather than directly making products from it.

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As a IBM developer - ouch man, that hurts. I guess I’ll just go back my job doing… nothing (actually sounds like a sweet job)

Yeah. And they have 3% market share of the cloud services.

AWS has 34%.

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