• Nougat
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    141 year 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?

    • @someguy3
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      1 year 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.

      • FuglyDuck
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        31 year ago

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

    • @dezmd
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      31 year ago

      They own Redhat.

      /throws up

    • Lung
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      21 year ago

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

    • PopShark
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      11 year ago

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