They used to specialize in just hardware but lately they have been getting very involved in tech support, software development and business solutions. They have grown and expanded quite well to survive.
NEW YORK, Feb 17 (Reuters) - IBM (NYSE: IBM - news) plans to take advantage of the U.S. economic stimulus package signed earlier on Tuesday by offering Internet services over power lines to more rural consumers.
IBM said its venture with International Broadband Electric Communications (IBEC), a company that provides broadband over power line (BPL) services, had begun to sign up Internet customers in rural parts of Alabama, Indiana, Michigan and Virginia and that it hoped to access more government funds.
A good idea in theory.....don't like the fact that the government is going to pay for it.
Article also mentions $2.5 billion in the stimulus bill being put towards internet in rural America.
Company I work for recently opted to use their "business solutions" to help establish an international printing partnership. I ended up doing most of their work for them, they wasted about 4 months of my life, and in the end they actually asked me for help to write a "request for proposal" for my own damned job.
In my experience, they don't do a whole hell of a lot.
Are the people who don't know just not responding?
(otherwise pretty impressed most here know what IBM does, for the most part. Business software and consulting is the biggest part of their business and the main driver of their corp going forward, but they also divuldge into all sorts of random crap. Crazy technology for memory, solar energy, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and instrumentation, computer servers, various hardware, the fuzzy yellow stuff on tennis balls...)
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Are the people who don't know just not responding?
(otherwise pretty impressed most here know what IBM does, for the most part. Business software and consulting is the biggest part of their business and the main driver of their corp going forward, but they also divuldge into all sorts of random crap. Crazy technology for memory, solar energy, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and instrumentation, computer servers, various hardware, the fuzzy yellow stuff on tennis balls...)
Not to be harsh or anything but I usually don't post in threads that i have no idea what the answer is....
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Not to be harsh or anything but I usually don't post in threads that i have no idea what the answer is....
You're definitely on the wrong internet then. The one we humans have is all about letting everyone know what your uninformed opinion is on any and all subjects regardless of plausibility or logic.
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They layoff long-term employees just because the overarching Software division lost money, ignoring the fact that you tremendously overachieved on your quota.
They buy up small profitable companies, make them apply IBM's draconian business policies so that the clients get pissed off and leave, causing great hardship to the client and the employees that get laid off? Am I in the ballpark?
My only contact with IBM thus far in my career is with Cognos. Since buying Cognos our customer service has gone so downhill that we've applied for budget money to re-write everything we have in Cognos software so that we're not dependent on IBM anymore.
What does IBM do?
