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[-] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

Huh. Thought IBM owned Lenovo.

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 14 points 7 months ago

Not at all. Always been a Chinese company. And I'm just now learning that IBM sold them their server business in 2014, and they also bought Motorola in the same year.

Which raises the question: What does IBM even do anymore?

[-] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Consulting. So much consulting.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Canada hired IBM to make a payroll system for federal employees. Supposed to replace all the disparate systems, amalgamate all the branches, etc. They royally fucked it up. Phoenix pay system if you want to look it up.

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Make people mad about Redhat.

*edit - s/made/mad😩

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Speaking as a guy who grew up on Redhat…. Fuck RHEL

[-] dezmd@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

They own Redhat.

/throws up

[-] lung@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I think it's basically high end military r&d and extensions of it into corporate services

[-] PopShark@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Well based on an above comment and the linked wikipedia page acquiring small tech companies I guess

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