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IBM Says its Future is in Services, Not Goods

Posted by Zonk on from the shift-the-para-digum dept.

TFGeditor writes "An article at Technology Review quotes IBM exec Paul Horn saying that the company's business model is shifting from goods and products to software and services. From the article: 'Horn's challenge, then, has been to take a $6 billion research organization dedicated to work that advances technology products and get it to do work that benefits service businesses. IBM is thus in the process of answering an important question for all technology companies: can corporations perform useful research in the services arena?'"

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  1. Service Unavailable?? by mr_don't · · Score: 5, Funny
    When I clicked on the link it said:

    Service Unavailable

    1. Re:Service Unavailable?? by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, obviously they didn't send the good ones to you. I'm an IBM consultant and I would have eaten YOUR lunch and charged you for it too.

      Eating their own lunch? I am shocked, because there's no money in that.

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  2. Re:Nothing to see by toddbu · · Score: 2, Funny

    I got a "Service Unavailable" message. Doesn't bode well for their future.

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  3. Bill Gates... by Jinsaku · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..only beat IBM to this decision by about 25 years.

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  4. Re:They're just announcing this? by Skyshadow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, they sent out the annoucement a couple of years ago. It just happened to make its way out of the Lotus Notes server today...

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  5. IBM? by MrVictor · · Score: 3, Funny

    It seems that they should consider changing their name to IBSS - International Business Software Services

  6. Lets hope they learned something by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    20 odd years ago they claimed that the money wasent in the software, it was in the machines...

    70 odd years ago their CEO belived that the world market is about 5 machines...

    hm...

  7. Communicating = Reading Slashdot by PineHall · · Score: 3, Funny

    Meanwhile, Maglio began to investigate what systems administrators actually do. He found that they spent between 60 and 90 percent of their time communicating with other systems administrators about systems issues.

    Whew! I am glad that they equate reading Slashdot with communicating.

  8. IBM Says its Future is in Services, Not Goods by TechnoGrl · · Score: 4, Funny

    TRANSLATION: We've fired so many of our development team in order to increase compensation for our highest level execs that we can no longer be innovative so we're going to "market" bullsh*t ideas as "value added services".

    Pax Requiem IBM

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