HPE - unlikely. The outflow of talent from the three sections above would leave them unviable.
Oracle - that's a joke. Ditto./quote>
The joke here is Robert X. Cringeworthy.
Through some sort of legal maneuvering he aquired the rights to the name Robert X. Cringely some years ago. There is no such actual person. Robert X. Cringely is a pseudonym that has been used by a number of people over the past 35+ years. The current Cringley claims to be the original who has been writing since 1987 (he's not).
His one great accomplishment is that he someohow gets paid to writing nonsense.
That's the mainframes, power systems, research, and what else?
Considering IBM's patent portfolio, just who has enough money?
Cringely suggests:
Private equity - that'll need to be a consortium, but there shouldn't be any shortage of potential members.
If the goal is to pump up numbers then selling the patent portfolio makes sense. Companies like Amazon, Apple, MS, Samsung et. al. could create corporation to buy the patents with everyone gaining access to them. The question is whether the patent portfolio is worth more than bundled with GTS. IBM could split them while assuring the GTS buyer access to them via a reasonable license deal.
Patent Portfolio.
Z/OS has features not in the PC and server space, yet USPTO is giving out patents for what IBM implemented 50 years ago. Then some amazing shit with Hitachi and Fujutsu tech that IBM also scooped up. Strangely IBM is not going after violators or embarrassing copycats.
Maybe Intels CPU flaws were designed to get around IBM's.
IBM just has to re-price their offerings - rather than watching market share plummet. It seems security and offloaded I/O is not considered valuable, nor security, nor
Patent terms last for 20 years, which is too long for blatantly obvious things such as VMs. Its nothing more than an extortion scheme since it does not take anything special more than a few minutes to come up with such ideas. Say no to Software Patents.
HCL is already taking over a lot of IBM's portfolio. At first it's a kind of partnership, where HCL gets the work and experience, and IBM gets some of the money.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
-- Isaac Asimov
Who has enough money to buy IBM GTS? (Score:5, Insightful)
That's the mainframes, power systems, research, and what else?
Considering IBM's patent portfolio, just who has enough money?
Cringely suggests:
Private equity - that'll need to be a consortium, but there shouldn't be any shortage of potential members.
HPE - unlikely. The outflow of talent from the three sections above would leave them unviable.
Oracle - that's a joke. Ditto.
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HPE - unlikely. The outflow of talent from the three sections above would leave them unviable.
Oracle - that's a joke. Ditto./quote>
The joke here is Robert X. Cringeworthy.
Through some sort of legal maneuvering he aquired the rights to the name Robert X. Cringely some years ago. There is no such actual person. Robert X. Cringely is a pseudonym that has been used by a number of people over the past 35+ years. The current Cringley claims to be the original who has been writing since 1987 (he's not).
His one great accomplishment is that he someohow gets paid to writing nonsense.
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Re: Who has enough money to buy IBM GTS? (Score:2)
It's not - it spilt into 2 some years back. Do try and keep up.
Re:Who has enough money to buy IBM GTS? (Score:4, Interesting)
That's the mainframes, power systems, research, and what else?
Considering IBM's patent portfolio, just who has enough money?
Cringely suggests:
Private equity - that'll need to be a consortium, but there shouldn't be any shortage of potential members.
If the goal is to pump up numbers then selling the patent portfolio makes sense. Companies like Amazon, Apple, MS, Samsung et. al. could create corporation to buy the patents with everyone gaining access to them. The question is whether the patent portfolio is worth more than bundled with GTS. IBM could split them while assuring the GTS buyer access to them via a reasonable license deal.
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> That's the mainframes, power systems, research, and what else?
None of it is part of GTS, cringely doesn't even know how the company is currently organized.
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If the cash flow is negative it doesn't matter how well invested you are in patents, at some point it's just an empty shell with expiring patents.
"Expriring" (Score:3)
Tell that to Disney. ^^
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Tell that to Disney. ^^
Huh? Yeah, I'm sure Disney has some patents, but I think you are confusing patents with trademarks and copyrights (which are Disney's real lifeblood).
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Disney should stick to animated stuff. People watching that don't care about plot gaps and incoherent stuff.
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Wait till you find [youtube.com] out [youtube.com] about YouTube! /s
People will kvetch about anything.
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Patent terms last for 20 years, which is too long for blatantly obvious things such as VMs. Its nothing more than an extortion scheme since it does not take anything special more than a few minutes to come up with such ideas. Say no to Software Patents.
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