Thread regarding IBM layoffs

Tech Titans Meet at the White House: What’s on the Agenda?

Oh to have been a fly on the wall. . .

"Kushner spoke of the need to modernize government IT systems to create huge savings and 'meaningfully improve the lives of Americans.' He said federal agencies operate 6,100 data centers, with some using systems that are decades old. He gave the example of the Pentagon still using floppy disks in legacy systems.

'Together we will unleash the creativity of the private sector to provide citizen services in a way that has never happened before,' Kushner said. 'We will foster a new set of start-ups focused on gov-tech and be a global leader in the field making government more transparent and responsive to citizens' needs.'

The group, which included administration officials, then broke to attend an afternoon of working sessions on topics including big data, citizen services, H-1B visas (for highly skilled foreign workers) and cloud computing.

The executives in attendance also included Safra Catz, Co-Chief Executive of Oracle; Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir; Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel; Tom Leighton, CEO of Akamai; Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP; Steven Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm; Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft; and Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM."

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tech-titans-meet-white-house-what-s-agenda-n774216

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Kushner will take care of everything, for real. I'd love to see him manage a simple medium sized ERP project - his head would spin in no time and he'd be out in a week or less.

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Find me one 30 year old that knows how to improve existing systems and processes. Building new stuff, yes - fixing legacy, no.

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I think she should be impeached IMMEDIATELY, before she runs the whole company into India's hands. She has not done anything to help IBM, only hurting IBM and its loyal employees and contractors, through years of lies and fake promises. Let's give Ginny a nice pink slip, or the option for her to relocate to Raleigh, or else.

by John Galt
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So can Ginni keep hidden the fact that she has decreased the US workforce by about 50% over 6 years? And now the non sense about move to Raleigh/Austin or lose your job. It was actually four cities but not enough people agreed to quit so it is down to two. I cannot stand how the press makes it out to be anything but a tool to get rid of people who have been with the company for a long time. Cringley was right BTW. Everything he predicted was spot on.

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