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Google is the new IBM (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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Google is the new IBM::Years of being one-upped on AI and cracking down on innovation turned the poster child for Silicon Valley cool into a dinosaur.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Uh ibm's not gone...

[–] Buffalox 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nope, that would make it a very stupid analogy.
But IBM is just a tiny shadow of their former glory, of almost complete dominance of business computers of any size.
According to the article Google/Alphabet is losing their leadership position too, in much the same way.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Might as well be, it's not really IBM anymore.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They have a stranglehold on enterprise computing after they ate redhat, and they still make insane mainframes, they've just left the consumer world (which makes sense given their name i guess)

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't go that far, there's been a mass exodus from Redhat and they're hardly the only game in town when it comes to mainframes. You do have a point though.

[–] TheGrandNagus 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The mass exodus from RH has been massively overstated. It's mostly a bunch of Redditors and Lemmings saying "omg I'll never use RHEL now, even though I never have", but in reality, they've not seen an exodus.

I do think their actions have a good chance of causing damage in the long term, though.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe, but our data center people decided to switched to SUSE so some places definitely ditched RHEL.

[–] elshandra 3 points 8 months ago

How did that work out? We used sles in the past (moved to rhel6). Management of larger environments has been easier with rhel, but we've slowly been decoupling from redhat-isms. Satellite is just doing drm -the only thing that gives us grief- and repos now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mainframes are still the shit in the world of financial transactions.

[–] theherk 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cries in COBOL.

[–] ripcord 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why cry?

[–] T156 5 points 8 months ago

That's what the C in COBOL stands for.

Cry-inducing Old Business-Oriented Language.

[–] JJROKCZ 6 points 8 months ago

As someone who runs a fleet of series i machines running as400, they’re doing just as well today as they were 40 years ago

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Norways it’s mostly a software company. IBM people keep talking about cloud, AI and all that stuff.

[–] FooBarrington 2 points 8 months ago

It's a trend-hopping company. Always 1-2 years behind actually valuable topics, but on the forefront on any useless bullshit you can think of.