Decline and Fall of IBMRobert X Cringely
Decline and Fall of IBM
by Robert X Cringely · first published 2014
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…that would should how Watson stacks up against other tech. Oren Etzioni has been calling them out for years. [1,2,3] Anyone wondering how IBM came to this sorry pass should read Robert Cringely's "The Decline and Fall of IBM." It's a company run by a clueless management class, who probably believe the smoke they're blowing up everyone else's ass. That's the scary part: The C-suite at IBM actually bought that hype about Watson,…
on “Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check” ↗The Decline and Fall of IBM by Robert X. Cringley is an interesting read. Some of Alan Kay's writings give an indication of how Xerox Parc fell. Bell Labs is an outlier in that it was the AT&T break-up that ended up starving it…
on “Ask HN: How engineering teams look like when super IT companies start failing” ↗Related reading is Cringely’s long history of writing about IBM Blog: https://www.cringely.com/tag/ibm/ The Decline and Fall of IBM https://www.amazon.com/Decline-Fall-IBM-American-Icon/dp/099...
on “IBM’s Old Playbook” ↗Worth noting there is also 'The Decline and Fall of IBM' by Cringely (2014) : https://www.cringely.com/2014/06/04/decline-fall-ibm/
on “The Decline and Rise of IBM (1996)” ↗