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Ever heard the phrase "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM"?

IBM is massive in IT consulting with basically half their revenue coming from the consulting side of their business, and the rest they're a service company in a lot of different IT verticals.

A somewhat informative quora link, because if you were too lazy to even google this you probably won't dig deeper than this: https://www.quora.com/What-does-IBM-do

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Does that change anything I said? All this marketing doesn't seem to lead to anything tangible unlike similar releases from other big companies. It's just fluff.

I'm aware the IBM does consulting and that's possibly the most boring software realm there is.

It might be boring, but it is revenue. Secondly, we should all be happy that companies like IBM (and of course Google, Facebook, Microsoft) are taking a long view and investing into cool ideas which may not necessarily immediately result in something tangible. The quarter-to-quarter view taken by most public companies is not optimal for society.

BTW, I work in ML+Medicine and IBM has dont great work in the area, with some Production implementations at hospitals.

> Ever heard the phrase "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM"?

That's now "You won't know if anybody got fired for buying an IBM quantum computer until you look inside the box".

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