well that's nonsense. IBM does incredibly cool stuff.

https://research.ibm.com/blog

What does IBM actually do? I just can never understand their business and operating model. It seems like they just do a bunch of random stuff and sell to the most enterprisey of enterprises.

>What does IBM actually do?

You should dive into the topic of Mainframe. There are a lot of financial transaction to other critical infrastructure are dependent on it. And not just because of backward compatibility but technical superiority.

Much like Oracle, they extract money from companies trapped on Db2

Their research is usually behind paywalls. I miss the days when they published their journals and made PDFs available for download.

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