HLMenckenFanNov 18, 2023

Elon Musk May Have Just Signed X’s Death Warrant

https://lemmy.world/post/8404376

Elon Musk May Have Just Signed X’s Death Warrant - Lemmy.World

Show threadetchinghillsideNov 18, 2023
What is IBM advertising there?
Show threadBarrierWithAshesNov 18, 2023
Probably thinkpads or some enterprise stuff.
Show threadNougatNov 18, 2023
Thinkpads were sold off to Lenovo 18 years ago.
Show threadBarrierWithAshesNov 18, 2023
Huh. Thought IBM owned Lenovo.
Show threadNougat

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?

Lenovo - Wikipedia

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Show threadRickRussell_CANov 18, 2023
Consulting. So much consulting.
Show threadsomeguy3Nov 18, 2023
Canada hired them to make a payment system for federal employees. Supposed to amalgamate all the systems, save money, blah blah blah. They royally fucked it up
Show threadTimLovesTechNov 18, 2023
Make people made about Red hat. 😩
Show threadFuglyDuckNov 18, 2023
Speaking as a guy who grew up on Redhat…. Fuck RHEL
Show threadLungNov 18, 2023
I think it’s basically high end military r&d and extensions of it into corporate services
Show threaddezmdNov 18, 2023

They own Redhat.

/throws up

Show threadPopSharkNov 18, 2023
Well based on an above comment and the linked wikipedia page acquiring small tech companies I guess