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Virginia Rometty Selected As Next CEO of IBM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the driving-big-blue dept.

itwbennett writes "IBM will start the new year with a new CEO. Virginia (Ginni) Rometty, who built up IBM Global Services, will be the company's first female CEO."

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  1. Female? by atari2600a · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought IBM purely consisted of gay successful men. That's how their songs put it...

  2. Re:Get your breasts out by Cryacin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can't wait to see her welcoming email! Which should arrive in the next 6 weeks or so, when her copy of Lotus Notes finally finishes starting up.

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  3. Congratulations by msobkow · · Score: 3

    Congratulations to Virginia Rometty on her promotion. The glass ceiling isn't shattered yet, but it's cracking.

    Is she going to be getting a 25:1 Canadian or Euro style pay package, or is she taking the hundreds to one ratio of many US executives that people are complaining about? The article doesn't say.

    IBM is a great place to work or contract. I really enjoyed the time I spent working on a project with them.

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  4. Re:Schizophrenic America by blair1q · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think we're supposed to assume that since she's female, she's less likely to be a greedy parasite.

    Unfortunately, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina have forever destroyed that stereotype.

    It remains to be seen if Ms. Rometty is human as well as success-oriented.

  5. Re:End of a Era by funwithBSD · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not really.

    It has been very volatile lately, going up and down several dollars for no real reason.

    I am on calls 2 or 3 times a month where she is also on the call. She seems well liked by the technical side of the house and is very approachable.

    Won't catch me calling her Ginnie, I stick to ma'am and Sir for VP's and above if we are on the clock.

    Better her than some other female execs we have.

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  6. Re:IBM Services Company by Virtucon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That was just one of the GSD failures. There was the Texas Data Center fiasco, which is now being re-bid.

    http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/2240031466/Texas-rebids-IBM-data-center-consolidation-project

    I'm sorry but IBM GSD is full of incompetent buffoons and making Ms. Rometty CEO will drive IBM into the ground. I would sell your stock immediately.

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