Yeah you can copy and paste this story and these comments at least once a quarter. Same story “IBM lays off thousands” same comment “IBM isn’t even a company and this will surely be the death of them”. Literally ever since I first heard the letters IBM I’ve heard these same headlines and comments.
And yet my clients keep buying IBM products and hiring IBM consultants. There is a huge enterprise world outside of Silicon Valley that HN is completely unaware of.
I second that. And every time the sentiment of most commentators is pure vitriolic. I really don't get it. Unless it's coming from laid-off workers - which I can understand and empathize. But I highly doubt it. My understanding is that people here just hate IBM because it's old and out of fashion mostly mirroring the same valley sentiment towards anything and anyone on the older side of the road.
The amount of misconceptions that are passing in a lot of these comments for facts is astounding. Many pretend that they don't know that IBM is one of the major PaaS and IaaS cloud providers. Others pretend that they ignore all the R&D done in IBM. Others still ignore the fact that IBM is one of the most open source friendly companies out there. And others still forget that it is probably the oldest IT company around that has reinvented itself more times than Elon has begged for public attention.
Anyway. Each with his own opinion. Luckily business out there has it's own as well and places its money on it.
With that I'm not trying to absolve C-suite from their responsibilities or their shitty management that will leave thousands of good workers high and dry. This is a different issue altogether but like I said the hate in these comments have nothing to do with it.
And yet my clients keep buying IBM products and hiring IBM consultants. There is a huge enterprise world outside of Silicon Valley that HN is completely unaware of.