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.
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.
Uh ibm’s not gone…
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.
Might as well be, it’s not really IBM anymore.
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)
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.
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.