How Is IBM Still Around?

Over the years, IBM has spun off so many businesses that you might wonder what they even DO anymore, lets find out.

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[karanvora]

IBM files like 10k patents a year, statistically 25 to 30 per day.

[srpenguinbr]

IBM is literally 100 years old now according to wikipedia

[coconutjoe]

As formal IBM dev, they are still doing stuff in background such health care, and ai, bluemix

[dtemp]

Kind of weird to talk about IBM still being around without mentioning their acquisition of Red Hat, which is the biggest move they've made in decades to keep relevant and remain profitable.

[DJefke]

That are only 2 areas where IBM is still active. IBM has a lot of other areas as well. They still produce mainframes. There are still a big name in enterprise storage. They basically dominate the UNIX market with Power and AIX. They still do their AS/400 stuff. They also still have a big software stack for the enterprise. And let's not forget they own the whole Redhat thing. So they are also big on the enterprise Linux market, but also own a lot of products that IT people are using everywhere (like Ansible, Gluster, Ceph, ...).

And also, IBM is around since 1911. So they changed their focus on the market a few times already.

[thepoliticalstartrek]

The MSP I work for is a Lenovo reseller. IBM still handles the support for their desktops, tablets, laptops, and Servers. They mainly handle the Enterprise channels. They charge Lenovo a fee for this. They also still build the Mainboard, Cases, and Backplanes in Lenovo Servers.

[HooksHollands]

Well, I guess I'll hold on to my 40-year-old IBM stock a bit longer then. 😉

[Kortexual]

I constantly get IBM hybrid cloud ads on youtube, so I'd assume that's how they keep afloat

[johnrcoben]

I love the question "They don't sell PCs, so how the heck do they make money?!" When I first became a programmer I was surprised that most jobs have nothing to do with commercial products; games, PCs, smart phones, etc.

[WDCallahan]

How can you talk about what IBM is doing in cloud space without mentioning Red Hat?

[atkstat]

Being an IBM employee transitioning to Kyndryl... This video hurts. lol

[pv]

IBM is like a roller coaster ride that doesn't end. They're trying to find their foot hold in the market. They keep consolidating and re org.

[ClellBiggs]

IBMs biggest asset is their ability to predict and adjust to societal changes. I can't think of a company that's better at doing that.

[VRGamercz]

Apart from research, they are doing what they were doing since 50's. They are still in the mainframe business.

[whitefeather]

My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain I.B.M

Ah the good ole days.

[VenturiLife]

IBM's reduction in R&D is concerning. That was always a stand-out area for them.

[survivalistboards]

In the 1990s there was a saying in IT - if you have a thousand users, use windows. If you have 10, 000 users, use Linux. If you have a 100, 000 users, use IBM.

[Jay-hune]

IBM also leases their floors in corporate centers

[mitchelwb]

I worked for IBM for about 15 months (re-badged by a previous employer) and I can tell you without a doubt, that IBM's #1 product is BILLABLE HOURS. The billable hour expectations were so high that I would have had to bill 42 hrs/wk, and that's BEFORE you factor in vacation time and holidays! To make it worse, most contracts didn't allow you to bill more than 40 hrs/wk to a single project, so if you weren't managing work for two projects at the same time, you didn't even stand a chance.

[geraldeh]

I remember 1985 working in a small computer store. We sold PC clones. Ours had 640k of RAM while true IBM's had 512k. The phone in my pocket is currently using 1.3g of memory. I used a word processor program with spell check that fit on one 360k floppy disk and still had room to save documents.