Posts by cintra

Missed opportunity bingo: IBM's wasted years and the $92bn cash splurge

Re: It's a shambles

The lions eating IBM managers joke was doing the round when I joined IBM in the mid-1980s

IBM kills Bluemix, a year after killing SoftLayer

Marketing genius

Plenty more examples of that.

Such as the ThinkPad "Butterfly" - a superb way to reference the laptop's unique ability to unfold its keyboard like the wings of a newly-born butterfly as it viewed the dawn for the very first time.

Or the 701C, to give it its official IBM name.

VCE boss Chad Sakac bets he'll win the hyperconverged market

The bleedin' obvious

"sales tend to accelerate once a product hits the market". Well... Yeah.