[mathattack]

Interesting. My observation on IBM is their entire business model is:

1 - Audit your customers

2 - Buy back shares

3 - Force early retirements

It was easy to see why Watson failed in that environment. The revenue was “We’ll let you out of the $6mm audit bill if you buy $2mm of Watson”. Companies would agree, install better asset management, and never put Watson into production.

I couldn’t imagine Quantum Comouting surviving there. Spinning it off the best play.

[rr808]

Their business model is more like make a lot of noise about high tech, then hire h1bs to do routine IT work their corporate customers do.

[coredog64]

That's Kyndryl: They spun it off into it's own entity after "IBM Global Services" had such a (deservedly) poor reputation that they were scraping the bottom of the barrel for clients and employees. Not that Kyndryl is any better, but it's enough of a rebrand that you might fool decision makers for the few minutes that it takes to get them to buy in.

[sublinear]

Their corporate customers also do that to their own customers.

[pjmlp]

Also buy Red-Hat and in the process own quite a few FOSS projects.

[pjmlp]

A business model that currently the Linux ecosystem benefits from, between Linux kernel, GCC, Wayland, GNOME, systemd, Java, Go, Rust.

[fsckboy]

they've just spun off the first quantum computer pure-play, the highest of techs, the greenest of green-fields, and your observation is "IBM doesn't do this"