* Posts by gb032645

2 publicly visible posts • joined 27 May 2018

What's big, blue, and hands out pink slips? IBM on Thursday: Word spreads of job cuts

gb032645

Yep. Nor can you acquire and retrofit companies in order to shoehorn your way into a market space that you've already clearly missed the boat on (i.e., cloud).

IBM's Watson Health wing left looking poorly after 'massive' layoffs

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Re: $2.6b in buy-ups

IBM ponied up $2.6 billion for Truven to acquire their customer datasets (which encompassed 200 million-or-so patient records), nothing more and nothing less, and they made that perfectly clear from the get-go. And that is exactly why I bailed from Truven shortly after IBM bought the company.