I wonder what the average CS grad thinks of these days when they hear the company name "IBM".

userbinator 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Might be something like "IBM? What's that?"

It's been said that when Microsoft started to grow - say, in the mid-80s, Bill Gates' biggest fear was that it would turn into IBM.

	▲	hulitu 26 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Quality was always a challenge for Microsoft.
	▲	andsoitis 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And they haven’t.

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ButlerianJihad 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

That is the certificate I earned upon completing community college. Their Linux curriculum was originally designed around Debian, but when IBM acquired RHEL, redesigned to offer this foot-in-the-door.

IBM still seems to do alright in the legacy mainframe/mini market. It is quite strange how the AS/400 and zOS stuff all goes without notice of ordinary IT guys like me, as if it didn't exist, but still powers a lot of machine rooms that aren't AI data centers.

	▲	bitwize 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		System z machines come with special AI processor modules these days, so it's clear IBM wants a piece of that pie also.

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ColdStream 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"I haven't heard of that LLM model, how is it?"