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Ashatosh: Azure and IBM will beat AWS in enterprise cloud within two years
“In fact, we predict that the number one enterprise cloud in the next two years is probably going to be Azure, and not AWS, just because they are sucking up a tremendous amount of footprint of applications. And number two actually might be IBM, and not AWS, as …”
IBM's competing product relies on technology Hindawi invented at age 18
“You're buying something if you buy it from IBM that I invented when I was 18 years old and had absolutely no idea what I was doing, and you can either do that or buy the product that I had 15 years of learning that I put into with, You know, a much newer archi…”
Marc Andreessen claims the first smartphone traces back to 1982
“The smartphone was not a new creation in 2007. The first smartphone actually came out. If you trace it all the way back, it came out in 1982. But IBM actually released something that actually looks a lot like an iPhone in 1987.”
Unicode Voting Power Concentrated Among US Tech Giants, SAP, and Oman
“No, so of those 12, so of those 12, nine are U.S. Multinational tech companies. Oracle, IBM, Google, Yahoo, Adobe, Facebook, Microsoft, and Symantec. Then of the other three full voting members, one is the German software company SAP, another is the Chinese te…”
Andreessen: IBM founder Thomas Watson Sr. was convicted of antitrust in his 30s
“Thomas Watson, senior who founded, founded IBM, the guy who founded IBM. He founded IBM in his forties. In his thirties, he was convicted by the federal government of antitrust. He was, like, convicted of antitrust violations for running his previous company, …”
Sinofsky: IBM beat S&P 500 by 7x post-mainframe peak
“And if you just use the stock price measure, which obviously has all the other variables associated with it, but it actually, IBM beat the S&P 500 by seven X over that 20 year timeframe on the back of a dead mainframe.”
Lakhani: Tech Analysts Emerged to Decode IBM's Opaque Market Position
“Analysts as we know them today really came about because there was a point in time in history where IBM was a firm that moved the markets the largest and there was no information about what IBM was doing outside of IBM and financial analysts couldn't get to th…”