Re: I don't like the IBM Linux commercial
Message ID: 79657
Posted By: ColonelZen
Posted On: 2004-01-12 12:38:00
Subject: Re: I don't like the IBM
Recs: 2
An interesting sentiment. With IBM, far more than most corporations, you have to remember that it isn't a monolith with a single personality. This, of course holds for MS and SCOX as well, but MS is basically a 'cult of personality' around BG and SCOX has devolved into a shell selling it's 'pump and dump' strategy while the Canopy shareholders maneuver to fleece the sheep.
IBM too, you should remember is a 'convicted monopolist' ... albeit 30 years out. My carreer has tracked IBM as a techie... I began working as a sysprog on mainframes, In the early 90's the mainframe was dying and I thought IBM was at the end of days. I suffered periods of unemployment and thought IBM, as I had seen it represented by its mainframe reps was, if not evil at least ignorant and doomed by self absorbsion. ... I switched my focus to to unix (through AIX first due to professional opportunity) ... and then IBM re-invented itself gloriously. I learned linux a little ahead of IBM, but I marvel at how closely IBM has both followed and led on the bleeding edge of new technology and the needs of tech consuming customers.
IBM isn't a "nice guy". It's a corporation in business to make money for its shareholders. But as far as a corporation can be a 'good guy' and on the side of its customers, the needs of the technology and techies generally, Three cheers for IBM. In the last decade I can't think of any company which has as good a track record of doing 'the right thing'.
-- TWZ
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Posted By: ColonelZen
Posted On: 2004-01-12 12:38:00
Subject: Re: I don't like the IBM
Recs: 2
An interesting sentiment. With IBM, far more than most corporations, you have to remember that it isn't a monolith with a single personality. This, of course holds for MS and SCOX as well, but MS is basically a 'cult of personality' around BG and SCOX has devolved into a shell selling it's 'pump and dump' strategy while the Canopy shareholders maneuver to fleece the sheep.
IBM too, you should remember is a 'convicted monopolist' ... albeit 30 years out. My carreer has tracked IBM as a techie... I began working as a sysprog on mainframes, In the early 90's the mainframe was dying and I thought IBM was at the end of days. I suffered periods of unemployment and thought IBM, as I had seen it represented by its mainframe reps was, if not evil at least ignorant and doomed by self absorbsion. ... I switched my focus to to unix (through AIX first due to professional opportunity) ... and then IBM re-invented itself gloriously. I learned linux a little ahead of IBM, but I marvel at how closely IBM has both followed and led on the bleeding edge of new technology and the needs of tech consuming customers.
IBM isn't a "nice guy". It's a corporation in business to make money for its shareholders. But as far as a corporation can be a 'good guy' and on the side of its customers, the needs of the technology and techies generally, Three cheers for IBM. In the last decade I can't think of any company which has as good a track record of doing 'the right thing'.
-- TWZ
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