Why this companny still exists ?

>378 thousand employees*

Tons of patents and research

>>56028332
SUPAKOMPUTAH?

>>56028332
IBM focuses on business solutions and machine learning/AI/analytics now.

You don't necessarily go to IBM for the infrastructure to handle big data, they make sense of it.

is that still their current logo or do they now use something faggy like everyone else?

>>56028582
I don't think it's diagonal anymore.

>>56028332
jewing companies through support

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>>56028332
Patents and R&D. It's the modern equivalent of Bell Labs.

>>56028332
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>>56028684
wat son

Don't they still have a big hand on the supercomputer side? Also doesn't OS/2 run on basically every ATM and cashier machine in the world?

>>56028684
>Watson
Everybody knows its name, nobody knows what It does

>>56028672
My professor talks about his time at bell labs like they were the golden age. What happened?

I'd prefer an IBM dominated world instead of Microsoft tbqh.

I have no idea what they do, but I can tell you they offer enterprise solutions.

I have been wondering what their current purpose or business offerings are myself. When you visit their website, what they do is so fucking vague it made me wonder if they still do anything at all?

>>56029392
Thats why im here...

Ask an IBMer anything

>>56028332
>Why this companny still exists ?
Sitting on IP and infrastructure assets
Memeing with the R&D to keep the investors from sweating

>>56029272
OS research deteriorated and as everyone started building on garbage

>>56029392
>what they do is so fucking vague it made me wonder if they still do anything at all?
they do things all righto
they don't care about consumer or mainstream enterprise at this point though

>>56029272
>bell labs like they were the golden age
Bell Labs invent transistor, solar cell, mosfet, Unix, etc.
>Become too large, under US anti-monopoly laws, they're forced to split to a smaller companies.

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>>56028582
>>56028608

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>>56030627
I'm not sure about that eyebrow

>>56030246
Are you at work right now? If so, that explain some things

WHAT IBM DO???

>>56030627
>nothing changed about the M
I hated this logo ever since they came out with it

>>56030627
Why they leave just the "m" ? Triggered

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>doesn't create crap for consumers like they used to
>t-they must be dead!

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>>56030627
improved

>>56031177
>company offers no valuable product, resource, or service
>make smug comment that only a fool would consider them dead

????

>>56030627
>That's a strange logo.
>What's wrong with it sir?
>Why didn't you change the M?
>Uhhhh, to show we're going to stick to our roots?
>Brilliant. I love it. Let's ship it out.
>John what the shit why didn't you do the 'm'?
>Nothing really came to mind.

>>56031258
They've moved onto enterprise and R&D.

>>56031177
what website is that from?

>>56031244
>Eye-bee-emu
Japanese branch run by animu grills?

>>56031303
>>56031244
>>56031146
>>56030627
C'mon guys
What starts with M....

>>56031327
https://www.projectoxford.ai/demo/emotion

>>56029361
I have some direct experience with them. This is their standard procedure for consulting services:

> Quote a project as taking n people for n months
> Staff the project with n/2 people
> Bully and frighten the n/2 people into working 80 hour weeks for flat salary
> Fail because burnout
> Get fired

They are circling the drain, but a bathtub as big as IBM doesn't empty overnight.

>>56031366
a mongoose?

Corporate and govt contracts, that sort of stuff.

>>56031366
Memes

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Seems good...

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>>56031366

>>56031396
I guess only masochist would use their service then.
>I'll Be M for using IBM

>>56031341
A-ai-bi-emu degozaru!

>>56031562
Friend in university uses it. Says it's pretty cool.

>>56030246
When are you going to be the subject of a resource action? Ex-IBMer here

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>>56031366

>>56028332
Also, they are engrained in corporate culture and business

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>>56031341
HOLY SHIT

CUTE JAPANESE GIRLS WITH BLUE STRIPED PANTIES THAT HAVE IBM SPELLED OUT ON THEM

AHHHHHHHH I'M A FUCKING GENIUS

>>56031366
mammaries

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>>56031366

>>56031881
>Shimapan IBM Logo
Give this man a Medal.

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Guys...

Did you know that ibm sponsored some episodes of stains;gate?

http://myanimelist.net/anime/27957/Steins_Gate__Soumei_Eichi_no_Cognitive_Computing


WHAT THE FUCK

>>56032099
If anyone wants to take a look at it..

[spoiler]
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It's just 160 megabytes

>>56032144
fuck, what the fuck happened to my key shortcut? It was suppoed to be code.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:967cfeaebfdc0e7a984653f3ed4128bef17287f4&dn=%5bWhyNot%5d%20Steins%3bGate%20-%20S%c5%8dmei%20Eichi%20no%20Cognitive%20Computing%20%5bWeb%20720p%20AAC%5d&tr=http%3a%2f%2fopen.nyaatorrents.info%3a6544%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.mrdrsr.net%3a6969%2fannounce

And the anime seems good

>>56028450
超技術をセックスしたいね!A.I.ちゃん、可愛い!!(。)

>>56033129
Wait, "" doesn't show up?
Kinda ruins my emoji

>>56033146
it's a star. it was an emoji with stars for eyes.

>>56031442
that's practically what they're doing now besides cashing out on IP and set cash flows

There is a book by Edwin Black about how IBM helped the Germans. There was also Adidas, Fanta orange and Tommy Hilfiger that had enormous profits from the war.

Some corporations are now so rich they're not in it for the money anymore. It's about power and the influence they can have on other people's lives.

Take Monsanto for example. They receive government grants and subsidies that allow them to remain competitive. It's bullshit really for ordinary people to try and compete with companies receiving phenomenal welfare checks.

>>56028332
Why does /g/ think IBM only made consumer garbage like ThinkPads and low-end x86 servers?

They were never a PC company.

Reminder: IBM POWER9 core architecture in 14nm SOI FinFET will be detailed at HotChips this August 23rd.

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>>56030627
>>56031244
Stand aside

>>56033925
>not in it for the money anymore.
This is true. Their development today, while fruitless with big meme breakthroughs that would have the mainstream media talking, is working towards some amazing concepts. I can't really tell if they're just bluffing to keep investors interested or if they are making actual advances