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[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k947wkfc
[23:20]		-TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k947wkfc )
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	Arvind- Robbie (don't I look MARVELOUS in my hoodie and sneakers?!) - IBM also says:
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	    watsonx will soon enable pigs to fly.
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	    We have a "hybrid cloud of AI nonsense" backlog of $18T because we put HYBRID or CLOUD or AI on the product name. Bo-m. Done easy peasy.
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	    IBM cloud is the best cloud on the planet...then why does it have 2% market share?
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	    "Goodwill" on a balance sheet is IMPOSSIBLE to measure and ripe with fraud waste abuse. Reputation, trademarks, proprietary tech, brand recognition etc. Hogwash. Financial Engineering. Gerstner and McKinsey must be back on retainer.
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	    IBM now very much smells like the Enron and Worldcom frauds.
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	    IBM now says Small LLMs (like jumbo shrimp and military intelligence ?) are best for AI due to faster speed and lower cost blah blah blah. Translated, at IBM we do not have near enough money to buy Nvidia GPUs so we cheap out and try to be in the top 50 of AI companies but like cloud (and soon quantum) talk a good game but does not have a clue what a customer is, what they do, and what customers want.
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	10 hours ago by Anonymous
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	| 7 reactions (+7/-0) | Reply
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	Post ID: @b4+1k947wkfc
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	 +1 
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	It means they bought all this stuff they think is more valuable than their prices in share value..
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	2025 Acquisitions
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	Txture: Acquired in October 2025, Txture provides software to help businesses migrate, modernize, and optimize their hybrid cloud environments.
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	Cognitus: In October 2025, IBM announced its intent to acquire Cognitus, a global SAP solution provider, to strengthen its SAP capabilities in complex and regulated industries.
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	Seek AI: Acquired in June 2025, this AI startup specializes in natural language data querying, allowing users to interact with complex datasets using natural language prompts.
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	DataStax (planned acquisition): Announced in February 2025, this acquisition is intended to deepen IBM's watsonx capabilities and address the data needs of generative AI applications using DataStax's database technology.
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	Hakkoda Inc.: Acquired in April 2025, Hakkoda is a data and AI consultancy that expands IBM Consulting's data transformation services portfolio.
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	HashiCorp: The $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp was completed in February 2025. This deal brought HashiCorp's infrastructure automation and security lifecycle management products (like Terraform and Vault) into IBM's portfolio to create a comprehensive hybrid cloud platform.
[23:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	Applications Software Technology LLC: Acquired in January 2025, this global Oracle consultancy enhances IBM's expertise in Oracle Cloud Applications, particularly for the public sector.
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