The
International Behemoth Megaconglomerate known as
IBM made their name with some fantastic innovations in the mid twentieth century due to a few brilliant minds in their workforce. Since then they mostly write contracts for service support and datacenter hosting agreements and they purchase or otherwise acquire other company's or individual's technology or software in a form of proprietary assimilation similar to
The Borg. They went so far as to invent their own
character set as a form of
mind control. IBM may know what you have in
mind before you do too. Otherwise, they pretty much ride upon or cling to the coattails of their glory days in an almost reflexive and recursive manner, and they still make and sell variants of the powerful workhorse
AS400. They have done some interesting work in artificial intelligence. IBM certainly isn't the innovative company they once were some thirty to fifty or more years ago. If you take a deep look at
IBM these days one may find they have wide, far reaching and varied interests in many aspects of science and technology. It will be interesting to see where
Ginni Rometty takes them, hopefully she carries and leads them to new heights where no one has gone before and skyrockets the company into orbit and beyond, again, and again, and again, further, faster, more, more, more, surpassing astronomical boundaries and exponential proportion, pushing the limits of fulfillment and potential...besides, she looks cute in
Blue.
Incidentally, IBM has some of the most progressive employee benefits packages in the corporate world compared to most other companies; just make certain you put only eight hours per day on your timesheet regardless of the sixteen or more hours spent slaving away without gratuity and recompense.
ClubFavolosa wrote:IBM, the computer guys of the previous century think they have a preview of what's going to happen between 2012 and 2017. As always with such statements in press release at best a part of it may be true. Wishful thinking I guess.
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