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Google is the new IBM (www.businessinsider.com)
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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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[-] femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 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)

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

I wouldn't go that far, there's been a mass exodus from Redhat and they're hardly the only game in town when it comes to mainframes. You do have a point though.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The mass exodus from RH has been massively overstated. It's mostly a bunch of Redditors and Lemmings saying "omg I'll never use RHEL now, even though I never have", but in reality, they've not seen an exodus.

I do think their actions have a good chance of causing damage in the long term, though.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Maybe, but our data center people decided to switched to SUSE so some places definitely ditched RHEL.

[-] elshandra@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

How did that work out? We used sles in the past (moved to rhel6). Management of larger environments has been easier with rhel, but we've slowly been decoupling from redhat-isms. Satellite is just doing drm -the only thing that gives us grief- and repos now.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

Mainframes are still the shit in the world of financial transactions.

[-] theherk@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago
[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago
[-] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

That's what the C in COBOL stands for.

Cry-inducing Old Business-Oriented Language.

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