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IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company (www.bloomberg.com)
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IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company::International Business Machines Corp. delivered a companywide ultimatum to managers who are still working remotely: move near an office or leave the company.

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[–] Yewb@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (7 children)

What does IBM even do anymore?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're furiously milking redhat to death, for starters.

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

To be fair, being milked to death doesn't seem that bad. I've seen those videos.

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They buy competitors with a good product and put their name on it.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And then they don't know what to do with the product for decades. E. g.: Notes.

[–] havocpants@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hang on, they said good products

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Notes was OK, besides the shitty UI.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah.... that is a big part of the thing.

Also, hiding emails/notes from users with some bad wannabe AI was a neat frustration.

[–] yggdar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

They are very busy charging an arm and a leg for crappy software with shit support.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

Makes bank on it's name from 60 years ago. That's about it. Genuinely.

[–] nUbee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Patent trolling.

[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're still a big name in mainframes and are also a cloud hyperscaler, and they offer software development and consulting. They do a lot of research in AI and quantum computing, and even blockchain a few years ago. But altogether just a shadow of what they once were. I used to work there when Lenovo took over ThinkPad production and the hard drive business was phasing out. I couldn't imagine being there now.

[–] Dlayknee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

cloud hyperscaler

I know you're technically right, but their "cloud" is the weirdest offering I have ever seen