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Things I Don’t Understand: Pricey Metaverse Real Estate
Virtual real estate isn’t a new concept. Second Life has been selling virtual land for almost two decades. It is not a big business. And you may have forgotten that IBM really kicked off its 21st century pageant of overpromising and then utterly underdelivering (see SmartCloud, Watson, IBM Blockchain, IBM Cloud and seemingly now moving…
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Tweetstorm Digest: Reactions to Barron’s “IBM’s Reboot” Story
Some @charlesfitz reactions to Barron’s excitedly bullish cover story on IBM. I for one was excited they used “Lost Decade” on the cover! Twitter thread repeated here: Barron’s makes its semi-regular pitch for IBM’s imminent reincarnation in this week’s cover story 🧵 /1 Despite a lede calling Watson “one of the greatest coups in the…
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IBM’s “Cloud” Business (or Lack Thereof)
TL;DR: IBM’s “cloud” should always have quotation marks around it. Once again, I have been triggered by IBM claims to be a leader in cloud computing. IBM says it is jettisoning its single biggest business – Managed Infrastructure Services – to “accelerate its hybrid cloud growth strategy”. Managed Infrastructure Services are the core of the…