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bmitctoday at 2:01 AM2 repliesview on HN

What does IBM actually do? I just can never understand their business and operating model. It seems like they just do a bunch of random stuff and sell to the most enterprisey of enterprises.


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ksectoday at 6:36 AM

>What does IBM actually do?

You should dive into the topic of Mainframe. There are a lot of financial transaction to other critical infrastructure are dependent on it. And not just because of backward compatibility but technical superiority.

pramtoday at 2:49 AM

Much like Oracle, they extract money from companies trapped on Db2