Posts by mako23

Legacy Apps

The only reason to buy a mainframe is legacy apps. However the hardware is not special and neither is the operating system. Linux can run for weeks without booting. My mobile phone running android does its all the time.

I grew up with mainframes and my first job was a large mainframe site. I then moved onto as400’s a machine I still love. However I cannot see new customers moving onto a mainframe. With ultra fast SSD disks on a PC server the advantage is not there anymore. I doubt IBM mainframe business will die but it will become a smaller and smaller business.

Eventually IBM will leave this business, either by selling out or reduced investment.

Welfare over warfare

The U.K. a spends so much money on wasteful welfare that there isn't money for anything else.

This is a completely classless act, how to make every employee have a rotten Christmas.

There must now exist a toxic culture at IBM were staff are constantly worried when will the axe fall on them. The sad fact is that IBM is profitable yet is cutting staff as if there on their death bed. It does seem that they are callous to their own staff. This is the main reason why I will not purchase anything made by IBM. I wonder if any one else feels this way ??

Couldn't happen to a nicer company

It will not work....a sad desperate attempt from a company that's past is sell by date

IBM. Incredibly Broken Moral

Expect more of this to come

I suspect the person who was aware about the expired date was fired during the many head reduction programs on European and USA workers.

The sooner IBM is broken up the better

There's no money in Hardware at present and it's unlikely to be much change in the foreseeable future. I sadly don't see any other possible alternative action for this company. I must say I feel very sorry for the employees that lose their job.

Not a surprise

With so many experienced staff gone and the hiring of wet behind the ear kids .......this should not be a surprise. This is the sort of contract that IBM would of excelled at in the old days.

As a westpac customer I'm very pleased to learn that IBM has been binned. I don't want some cheap wet behind the ears engineer breaking the system.

Not a lot a million

How are these major companies supposed to survive when the total server market is 14 billion a quarter. I expect more death and destruction among hardware manufactures

Expect more of this to happen

IBM has fired so many experienced staff that had high intellectual capital. What's left is low payed staff with low intellectual capital. No disrespect to these individuals but you can't replace those individuals with twenty plus years of experience with staff out of an Indian university.

I'm an old timer who left IBM many years ago, the company I knew doesn't exist anymore. I expect further declining revenue and profit. In my opinion the share price is still way over valued.

If I chose to use AES encryption during communication thats my decision

Not a surprise

The Microsoft speech translator understands words like "honesty" "dignity" and mostly "paying a decent redundancy"

The IBM product doesn't

Another sign that IBM is dying a slow death

The Empire Strikes Back

The only thing missing from Ginni Rometty is a black mask and deep metallic breathing. She sure is a record breaker 21 consecutive quarters of revenue decline.

I'm glad she has left maybe she also do the world a favor and leave IBM, she has certainly has had an effect on the stock price

Get Real

If this logic is correct then we should bring slavery back because everyone will have a job.

No Surprises Here

IBM Was once a byword for quality but after firing so many experienced white IT workers it's just living off reputation alone.

RATS LEAVING SINKING SHIP

I can't blame him wanting to leave. Maybe he wants to leave so he can look himself in the mirror.

There's no money in hardware, and the cuts were having now will get worse.