Thread regarding IBM layoffs

the person posting this is not employed by IBM and a boomer troll. The website is not owned by IBM, and they are just reselling IBM software, like one of the hundreds of business partners. Partner websites are usually terrible, but they get to do what they want as long as IBM gets paid.

If you don't have the ability to understand that the website is not owned by IBM (i.e. on IBM.com domain) and think it's typical for IBM to sell $40 software, you're completely clueless.

Big blue is optimized for complex high value deals where executives with big pocketbooks are involved. IBM provides some self-serve options just to say they have it, they want you to talk to a sales rep.

Probably same as everyone else: Look interested, collect paychecks, play pocket pool under their desk.

What exactly do you do at IBM OP?

Any none salespeople want to chime in? Any fellow feds working on anything worth a darn?

OP might be an IBM exec. It's very common execs are confused.

Fed. Band 8.

Ok OP. What is your role at IBM ?

That cr---y site is for selling university software, which we only support for feeding SPSS to poor stats students. (Another inexplicable purchase by IBM)

Enterprise customers don't buy their software by logging onto an e-commerce site, they send out RFPs, write contracts then get access to a slightly-less-cr---y site where they can download product images according to their current licenses. I'm not saying that system is great, but it has nothing in common with onthehub.com.

If you can't figure out the difference between how an undergrad gets SPSS and how Bank of America gets their software you might want to reconsider your choice of employer.

OP here. I absolutely work at IBM and “GTM” strategy might as well mean “synergy” when there are no products. All these posters say my post is stupid, but show us where these mysterious products are? Where is revenue actually created? Again, in the years I’ve been here, not a single screenshot of an actual product. Show me differently and I will gladly agree that OP (me) is stupid.

Is IBM a front?

No. IBM is a rear.

The OP does not work at IBM and has no idea in our GTM model. They went to the website and based their assumptions on digital offerings.

Wow, what an amazing d-mb (or trolling?) post. Does OP also think the Earth is flat?

IBM is soon to be like Accenture and some of the other Indian outfits.
IBM is no longer a leader in anything, well may be in Mainframe they are, but there is
no competition there, so that is easy to be a leader.

if i post my sn can you look me up and sell me some? god damn! i need dr-gs to work in this shithole. w t f! was i thinking!?

i sell a ton of dr-gs and i work at ibm so maybe

IBM business model is to buy software companies with a leading product and then dramatically increase licence costs and cut support and development. Rename the product every 12 months with the latest buzz words and when it is no longer profitable sell it off to HCL or some other company.

About the customer brains… are you saying we, the employees, are the product IBM sells? Are you saying we are the AI? That’s interesting, especially with how IBM is all in on quantum computing which used to be called cognitive computing.

It sounds like IBM should be in the business of making customer brains. Can someone ask AK if that's "us"?

You’d have to have sh-t for brains to buy anything that comes out of IBM, whether it’s RH or other. IBM could turn gold to sh-t.

What is this overlap between legacy products and Red Hat products that this poster keeps talking about? Was there an IBM Linux? An IBM Kubernetes? I guess Websphere/JBoss, but can't think of any others.

IBM is streamlining the enterprise SW product offerings. The existing legacy products are being phased out for the newly acquired or customized Redhat products. You don’t spend 34 billion and then put it on the shelf. You can do the basic math. Redhats employee population was 11.5k when it was bought, and IBM will replace legacy with Redhat on a one for one basis. Most of the Redhat enterprise SW customization is now ready for roll out, and thus the layoff rumors are circulating.

If IBM has a problem it's too many products - it's just those products are all tightly targeted at enterprise niches they can exploit.

More of a back.

IBM is about to go kerplunk and down the drain in a swirl. All that'll be left are a bunch of little sticky notes clinging to the sides of the bowl for dear life. They'll say things like "Lorem ipsum" and "schmuck user".

What is IBM about?

You are definitely not working with signature accounts...do you even have ISC? D-mb a-s question

Non revenue generating employees always think this because they legitimately have no idea what IBM is about