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On 1/2/25 6:33 AM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> On 01/01/2025 21:33, rbowman wrote:
>>> wiw, the company I worked for at the times didn't find excellence either
>>> and is gone. Come to think of it every company I ever worked for 
>>> directly
>>> or on contract is gone. Maybe I'm the kiss of death?
>>
>> Companies exist in a phase of 'rising star' 'mature' 'cash cow' and 
>> 'death spiral'
>>
>> IBM for example died years ago - the company today is just the old 
>> business services division.
>>
>> No company I ever worked for is extant today in anything like its 
>> original form.
> 
> I wonder if a new owner would be able to shake some life into z and p? 
> As it is, IBM seems to be trying to kill those lines hard with high prices.


   I've got a fair bit of IBM stock ... it's NOT "dead",
   indeed pays pretty good interest. The corp just found
   other ways to make a buck and is large enough to make
   it work.

   But its core biz is NOT exactly what it was in the 80s
   and previous.

   You still CAN buy an IBM mainframe - up to four linked
   Big Black Z Boxes with impressive specs. Even runs the
   IBM-branded RedHat if you want (many do). If you've
   got a busy global biz, a good way to go.

   https://www.ibm.com/z

   Hmmm ... saw something about Plan-9 being ported
   to the Z-Boxes ... they were very proud.

   I think IBM still has a future, just not making PCs
   and typewriters. STILL doing good chip work however ...
   but mostly for internal consumption.

   On the neg  ... IBMs 'AI', "Watson", was originally
   a triumph but seems to have fallen a bit behind the
   proverbial curve of late. It's still very 'biz
   oriented' and has a medical diagnostics branch that's
   quite good, but it's not as 'general' as Chat
   or OpenAI.