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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 23 points 9 months ago

Uh ibm's not gone...

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Nope, that would make it a very stupid analogy.
But IBM is just a tiny shadow of their former glory, of almost complete dominance of business computers of any size.
According to the article Google/Alphabet is losing their leadership position too, in much the same way.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Might as well be, it's not really IBM anymore.

[-] femboy_bird 26 points 9 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 12 points 9 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.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

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

[-] theherk@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Cries in COBOL.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Why cry?

[-] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

That's what the C in COBOL stands for.

Cry-inducing Old Business-Oriented Language.

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

As someone who runs a fleet of series i machines running as400, they’re doing just as well today as they were 40 years ago

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Norways it’s mostly a software company. IBM people keep talking about cloud, AI and all that stuff.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

It's a trend-hopping company. Always 1-2 years behind actually valuable topics, but on the forefront on any useless bullshit you can think of.

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