points by WalterBright 2 days ago | 0 comments
IBM is a mere shadow of it was in the 1980s, when everyone waited breathlessly for every new move by IBM. I haven't seen IBM in the news for many years.
I remember a comment in the tech news from 25 years ago - "nobody is afraid of Microsoft anymore".
[–] cyberax 2 days ago
[–] WalterBright 1 day ago
IBM has been left far behind.
And you actually are failing to see what I'm trying to say. IBM is a GREAT example of my point. They pivoted from a company that makes keyboards and PCs to a company that makes custom solutions with specialized hardware and software.
This sort of corporate flexibility used to be extremely rare, and that's why you have so many examples of companies that just withered away. And this corporate stagnation was the only real limiting factor of corporate growth.
It's now gone. Companies now have much higher upper limit of complexity. It's still a competition, so it's not like every company is going to become "The Corporation" from dystopias. But there's no inherent limiter that prevents it anymore.