IBM, every mention
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AI deployment
- ▶ 23:19 Benedict Evans Copilot is rather like Watson.
The spring updates on AI
- ▶ 5:32 Benedict Evans Then you are Microsoft in the, in the, in the 2000, um, or your IBM in the 19 nineties.
The AI presentation
- ▶ 9:05 Benedict Evans There were a lot of people making PCs before IBM produced the, the IBM PC.
What's your AI strategy?
- ▶ 19:52 Benedict Evans And, you know, that might be, some of that conversation is a Bain-BCG-McKinsey conversation, and some of it is a Accenture, Infosys, KPMG, IBM kind of a conversation. 2 times in the scene
Working out AI questions
- ▶ 5:54 Benedict Evans It's as though all of us were basically running terminals that were connected to mainframes from either IBM, Hewlett-Packard, or Honeywell. 2 times in the scene
Remember AI?
- ▶ 21:22 Benedict Evans And so it's much harder to brute force it, which is the way that the IBM thing did. 2 times in the scene
How to think about tech
- ▶ 24:57 Benedict Evans And one of the sort of the observations is that when you go from renting a mainframe from IBM to running your own data center, you can have a lot more software.
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 6:04 Benedict Evans Surely only IBM's allowed to build the end of the universe.
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 2:23 Benedict Evans So IBM mainframes are still there, still doing mainframe stuff. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:34 Benedict Evans So yes, like, IBM's mainframe install base is still growing.
- ▶ 34:41 Benedict Evans This thing called the government digital service, whose sort of purpose is to try and put front end and a unified strategy and roadmap on top of 40 years of 30 different departments buying their own IT and generally buying it from IBM or…
Shopify and digital transformation
- ▶ 7:14 Benedict Evans What it actually means is that in the second half of the eighties, first half of the nineties, all of these giant companies moved from mainframes and mini computers and IBM to Oracle and client server and windows and that whole at SAP and…
Two Europeans talk about China
- ▶ 33:13 Benedict Evans And, you know, if one kind of pulls right back to the beginning of all of this stuff, um, when, I probably said this on a previous podcast, but when Apple launched the original Mac back in 1984, global PC sales of every kind of PC, so IBM…
What comes next?
- ▶ 3:09 Benedict Evans So IBM dominates mainframes, and in fact, at the time, people used to talk about IBM and the Seven Dwarfs, because there were seven much smaller companies, like kind of Honeywell and Control Data and people, Burroughs, maybe, um, who, um,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:48 Benedict Evans In fact, I found out a while ago that IBM's install base of mainframes, which they measure in computing capacity, so they measure it in MIPS, went up about 10 X between 2002 1010. 4 times in the scene
The paradox of Apple
- ▶ 10:32 Benedict Evans And yes, IBM makes one, but you know, it's not a threat to mainframes.
How do you destroy a tech monopoly?
- ▶ 21:37 Benedict Evans In the seventies, IBM had effective market dominance in mainframes. 6 times in the scene
Is Europe a market?
- ▶ 29:17 Benedict Evans B, you probably meant Microsoft, or IBM, or probably, or BP, or Rolls-Royce, you know, you're going to work for an engineering company writing software for them, or you're going to work for, say, Tesco.