[Info-vax] IBM Layoffs

[John Nebel]

Cringely nailed this a while back, starting with 
<http://www.cringely.com/2012/04/18/not-your-fathers-ibm/>

Two quotes:

"Meanwhile IBM’s work for customers is becoming increasingly shoddy."

"There is no real IBM, not any longer"



On 1/25/2015 5:45 PM, Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax wrote:
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> Unconfirmed, obviously...
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> "IBM is about to get hit with a massive reorg and layoffs
> One-quarter of the company could be let go in the next month."
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> <http://www.itworld.com/article/2875112/ibm-is-about-to-get-hit-with-a-massive-reorg-and-layoffs.html>
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> Supposedly starting next week, and ending next month.
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> The article comments on plans to downsize the mainframe servers and storage
> businesses, and problems maintaining service contract revenues as folks
> outsource their data centers.
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> The same market changes are undoubtedly affecting the HP Enterprise and VSI
> businesses.
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> Maybe VSI starts up an outsourcing cloud business for VMS sites?
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>