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by moonlighter
4499 days ago
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Ex IBMer here. They're not cutting the fat anymore, simply because there isn't much fat left to cut. It's mostly cutting into muscle and bone these days. Spot on regarding their cloud offerings. The thing is, just owning Softlayer and Cloudant etc. doesn't magically make then a compelling player in that space. While they do have mindshare in corporate IT, they have less so with developers and hackers on the bleeding edge, and even less so in the startup scene. If you think "Database in the cloud" for example.. what comes to mind. DB2? Informix? Nope. More like DynamoDB, Redis, MongoDB, CouchBase and the like. IBMers doing competitive analysis attending Amazon's re:Invent 2013 conference must've been virtually shitting their pants during every keynote speech. |
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