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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

  2. 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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  3. 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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