Years of being one-upped on AI and cracking down on innovation turned the poster child for Silicon Valley cool into a dinosaur.

Google is the new IBM::Years of being one-upped on AI and cracking down on innovation turned the poster child for Silicon Valley cool into a dinosaur.

    • @Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18•4 months ago

      Nope, that would make it a very stupid analogy.
      But IBM is just a tiny shadow of their former glory, of almost complete dominance of business computers of any size.
      According to the article Google/Alphabet is losing their leadership position too, in much the same way.

      • @femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        26•4 months ago

        They have a stranglehold on enterprise computing after they ate redhat, and they still make insane mainframes, they’ve just left the consumer world (which makes sense given their name i guess)

        • FartsWithAnAccentEnglish
          11•4 months ago

          I wouldn’t go that far, there’s been a mass exodus from Redhat and they’re hardly the only game in town when it comes to mainframes. You do have a point though.

          • @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14•4 months ago

            The mass exodus from RH has been massively overstated. It’s mostly a bunch of Redditors and Lemmings saying “omg I’ll never use RHEL now, even though I never have”, but in reality, they’ve not seen an exodus.

            I do think their actions have a good chance of causing damage in the long term, though.

            • FartsWithAnAccentEnglish
              10•4 months ago

              Maybe, but our data center people decided to switched to SUSE so some places definitely ditched RHEL.

              • @elshandra@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3•4 months ago

                How did that work out? We used sles in the past (moved to rhel6). Management of larger environments has been easier with rhel, but we’ve slowly been decoupling from redhat-isms. Satellite is just doing drm -the only thing that gives us grief- and repos now.

      • JJROKCZEnglish
        6•4 months ago

        As someone who runs a fleet of series i machines running as400, they’re doing just as well today as they were 40 years ago

        • @FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2•4 months ago

          It’s a trend-hopping company. Always 1-2 years behind actually valuable topics, but on the forefront on any useless bullshit you can think of.