Don't want to sound too mean but this is not the first time IBM overpromised and underdelivered.
Anyone surprised by this?
Anyone surprised by this?
For instance, they developed software for the Apollo mission and the Space Shuttle. The IBM/360. The IBM PC. AS/400.
Do you have a more recent example? something that happened several years after Louis Gerstner first assumed leadership.
Admittedly though given their pretty large size I can't name much else.
Exactly. Even if 20,000 people worked on those supercomputers, mainframes and Watson, what do the other 350,000 employees work on? Consulting, and it's been that way since Gerstner.
I hope that's not the case for their quantum computer