Os2 is a series of computer operating systems, initially created by microsoft and ibm under the leadership of ibm software designer ed iacobucci. The company provides decent health benefits, flexible working hours, and the ability to move into different job roles during the course of your career. Robert cringely, a wellknown pc pundit, said, on december 31, 1999 at midnight, when the big ball drops and people are kissing in times square, the era of the mainframe computing will be over. A few days ago i tweeted something and a reader reacted, saying about cringely, i thought he was dead. Cringely outlines, by the end of february some 100,000 ibm workers could be gone. File type pdf the decline and fall of ibm end an american icon kindle edition robert cringely book the decline and fall of ibm end an american icon kindle edition robert cringely is additionally useful. Robert cringely author of the decline and fall of ibm. Jun 11, 2014 cringely tends to rely on his own analysis and a wide chorus of mostly anonymous and unhappy ibm insiders.
The decline and fall of ibm robert cringely june 2014. Cringely wants a supercomputer in every garage slashdot. The news about the ibm layoff was first reported by forbes journalist robert x cringely, according to fast company. Software group, austin, texas as an industry pioneer in the field of services oriented architecture soa, robert h. Todays prediction is about a tangentiallyrelated technology aerial delivery drones. Not dead yet, but i should probably explain my disappearance a few months ago from life in print.
Cringely tends to rely on his own analysis and a wide chorus of mostly anonymous and unhappy ibm insiders. Ibm did not respond to questions about this from toi till late tuesday evening. As i was driving home, i found myself thinking about a favorite section of the book accidental empires, by longtime computer journalist robert x. On monday, forbes carried an article by silicon valley technology columnist robert cringely who said that ibm was planning a transformation project code named project chrome that would reduce its global workforce by 26% or 1. It comprised 750 servers and 16 terabytes of memory on 2,880. Well, if i made a list of acquisitions and things to do to save ibm, buying red hat would have been very close to the top of that list. Robert has indepth knowledge of major applications such as transaction processing, low latency trading, core banking, high performance computing, and payment systems and the impact of these applications on the underlying infrastructure. May 02, 2014 robert cringely wrote a series of columns in 2012 in which he predicted ibm s nyse. This digest was created in realtime during the meeting,based on the speakers presentations and comments from the audience. Next weeks bloodbath at ibm wont fix the real problem forbes. Our sustained investment in basic research and core science is unmatched. Cringely is the pen name of both technology journalist mark stephens and a string of writers for a column in infoworld, the onetime weekly computer trade newspaper published by idg infoworld.
Mark stephens was the third author to contribute to infoworld under the cringely. Cringely predicts ibm will shed 78% of us employees by. We collaborate across disciplines and partner with clients to address some of. Ibm ultimate demise because the company was rotten to the core. Robert cringely publishes a column echoing the conventional wisdom in silicon valley that papermasters position as head of the ipod and iphone division is a subterfuge, a placeholder until his noncompete year is up and he can take the job for which he was really hired. Cringelys name is on every enemys list in silicon valley, where for eight years he was the gossip columnist for infoworld, a trade paper read each week by more. The company got in trouble back in the 1990s and had to hire for the first time an outside ceo, lou gerstner, to save the day. Jan 22, 2015 ibms new cloud leader, senior vice president robert leblanc, told fortune this week that ibm has plans to hire 1,000 cloud professionals. This column will cover shortterm impacts while my next column will cover longerterm changes that were probably going to happen anyway but are already being accelerated by the current health crisis. Cringely predicts ibm will shed 78% of us employees by 2015. After my column last week predicting massive cuts at the giant computer company, ibm now says im wrong, and that there will be nowhere near 110,000 ibm employees laid off.
The primary method for accomplishing this feat, according to the plan, will be by reducing u. The decline and fall of ibm end an american icon kindle. Gerstner pushed ibm into services with spectacular results but this hurt the company, too. Cringely also reported that ibm would focus on its. The layoffs come under a massive company reorganization planned by project chrome. So far, cringelys pronouncements about ibm have been approximately true. Saying he practices identity theft would be a valid argument if the infoworld cringly was someone else and he had just appropriated the name for use on pbs, but he didnt. The content is super opinionated, without concrete proofevidence. How does a 67yearold hack with three minor children recover from going blind, losing his.
Ibm ultimate demise because the company was rotten to the. Third position writes cringely with more predictions about ibm. Big blue, as the company is known, tends to rely for its success on magical thinking but that magic ran out a long time ago. Robert cringely has worked in and around the pc business for more than 30 years. If events play out as a forbes report by noted ibm watcher robert x. The cuts will be announced wednesday, and they will. He currently leads the deployment of ibms enterpriseclass blockchain cloud service. Cringelys column on os x for intel, which led to a slashdot story on the topic, leading to as of this writing over 700 comments there and 100 comments here. On page 24 of accidental empires, his bestselling 1992 book about the birth of the pc business, robert x.
But that was small potatoes compared to what might hit ibm next week amid one report the vendor is prepping to lay off what could amount to 26 percent of its global workforce. Even back as early as march 1989, forbes magazine had said, a. Jan 01, 2014 the book the decline and fall of ibm by robert cringely is a bunch of sensational and controversial claimswritings by a bloggerjournalist. These drones are definitely coming just as fast as regulators will allow them, but i dont think theyll be implemented in the way. This is the first of two 2020 predictions concerning covid19, the socalled coronavirus. Robert a philhower contact information sploring the world between power and ground. You have remained in right site to start getting this info. Ive already written one prediction about autonomous cars that theyll be far later to the market than most pundits and autonomous car inventors are suggesting. Jan 26, 2015 tech blogger robert cringely wrote last week that ibm would lay off 26% of its staff, or nearly 112,000 employees, in a massive restructuring. We collaborate across disciplines and partner with clients to address some of the worlds biggest challenges. At the time, watson was the size of a master bedroom, with a box the size of a fridge for a face. The book the decline and fall of ibm by robert cringely is a bunch of sensational and controversial claimswritings by a bloggerjournalist. Cringely is the pen name of both technology journalist mark stephens and a string of writers for a column in infoworld, the onetime weekly computer trade newspaper published by idg. I think he and john dvorak are soon to have a competition in making the least substantive comments about computing any human has ever uttered.
Cringely also reported that ibm would focus on its u. Read the rise and fall of ibm by robert cringely out in. Following up on cringely from pseudorandom this is a followup to my entry on robert x. Accidental empires, chapter 15 future computing there is so much wrong and yet a lot thats right in this chapter, which was the last one in the original hardcover edition. His work has appeared in the new york times, newsweek, forbes, upside, success, worth, and many other magazines and. I dont know whether to be embarrassed by it or proud.
Ibms new cloud leader, senior vice president robert leblanc, told fortune this week that ibm has plans to hire 1,000 cloud professionals. Cringely march 25th, 2020 2020, predictions, startups, strategy, venture capital 24 comments read more 2020 prediction. Robert cringely wrote a series of columns in 2012 in which he predicted ibms nyse. As a result of a feud between the two companies over how to position os2 relative to microsofts new windows 3. They should have bought red hat 10 years ago when the stock market was in the gutter. Nov 09, 2011 5 lessons from steve jobs lost interview. Id say he pretty much defined who that cringly was or is today, i dont read infoworld. Jobs the full one he did with robert cringely in 1995 for triumph of the nerds. Ibm research is one of the worlds largest and most influential corporate research organizations. Ibm read the rise and fall of ibm by robert cringely. Tech blogger robert cringely wrote last week that ibm would lay off 26% of its staff, or nearly 112,000 employees, in a massive restructuring. The content should not be viewed as an official transcript of the meeting, but only as an interpretation by a single individual. Robert cringely is the author of the decline and fall of ibm 3.
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