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| schestowitz[TR2] | ""for the love of gosh, why don't indians create their own companies | Dec 30 03:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they would have more control and make more money for themselves | Dec 30 03:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | this is getting absurd | Dec 30 03:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Again and again when people are let go here, you see the hiring listings pop up in India for the same positions. | Dec 30 03:09 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96 | Dec 30 03:13 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | WSJ's Editorial Board's perspective. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Lou Gerstner, the Man Who Revived IBM -- | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lou-gerstner-dies-age-83-ibm-7f7cd7b3 | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He changed the culture and found a new business mission for the storied company that had fallen on hard times. He died Saturday at age 83. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | By: The Editorial Board | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Dec. 29, 2025 5:52 pm ET | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Starting a business is hard, but harder still is reviving a once-great company that has fallen from its glory days. You have to change the culture in addition to finding a new business mission. That was the great achievement of Louis V. Gerstner Jr., who revived IBM in the 1990s and died Saturday at age 83. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Lou Gerstner was the first outsider to take the helm at IBM, the storied firm that once looked so dominant in computer mainframes that the Justice Department spent foolish years trying to break it up. But like many former giants, IBM lost its leadership to upstarts as the personal computer and software eras surpassed mainframes. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Taking over at IBM in 1993 after stints at RJR Nabisco and American Express, Gerstner pivoted the company from hardware to focus on business services. He stopped trying to compete with Microsoft’s Windows operating system and instead offered customers expertise in how to integrate corporate data and networks. He laid off some 10% of the company’s employees, which was a shock to the IBM tradition of lifetime tenure but underscor | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ed the necessity of change for company survival. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The strategic shift worked, and IBM revenues boomed. During his nine years as CEO, IBM’s market value rose from about $13 to $80 or so a share. The turnaround saved tens of thousands of jobs and provided comfortable livelihoods and retirements for countless families. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Gerstner worked in private equity after he left IBM, serving as chairman of the Carlyle Group from 2003-2008. He was a notable philanthropist with a special passion for education, as he showed in op-eds promoting reform in our pages over the years. Gerstner Philanthropies has invested more than $300 million in biomedical research, education and humanitarian causes. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Business management has fallen out of media and popular favor as entrepreneurs became the glory boys of American capitalism. But CEOs with vision and courage are crucial to making companies succeed. This is the reason that shareholders and boards are willing to pay good managers well. Lou Gerstner was one of the best, to the great benefit of hundreds of thousands of Americans. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 17 minutes ago by Anonymous | Dec 30 03:13 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @f1+1kdkpvc96 | Dec 30 03:13 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | @eh | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Wow that is terrible. I hope none of his relatives see this. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | no reactions | Reply | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @et+1kdkpvc96 | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +4 | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I hope he died a slow and painful death in screaming agony and he will be haunted in he-l by the ghosts of tens of thousands of innocent ibmers he RAd during his tenure . | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Today was a good day - the evil overlord is dead. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The wicked witch Ginni R should be next | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by NICLE AND DIME | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @eh+1kdkpvc96 | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +4 | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Gerstner was a ruthless moco and the granddaddy of the RA tsunamis that followed. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | May he rot in he-l for all eternity | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by Rob “show me the money” Thomas | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @eg+1kdkpvc96 | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Funny how fast posts get deleted here. Sure would like to know why and by whom. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ef+1kdkpvc96 | Dec 30 03:13 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | @dn | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He was brought in to save the company. Unfortunately some painful decisions had to be made. I am sure it weighed down on him and he was not happy to do that | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 7 reactions (+1/-6) | Reply | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @dv+1kdkpvc96 | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +7 | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @d5 | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Your sympathy is misplaced. How many lives did Lou, the cookie monster, did he destroy. He ra--d the retirement fund to get away with his act of robbery and steal $238 Millions on his way out. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 7 hours ago by Anonymous | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 7 reactions (+7/-0) | Reply | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @dn+1kdkpvc96 | Dec 30 03:13 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | @d4 | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Wow that is harsh. Think of Lous family during this difficult time for them. Arvind, Ginny and the other executives should not get this anger towards them | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 10 hours ago by Anonymous | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 11 reactions (+1/-10) | Reply | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @d5+1kdkpvc96 | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +9 | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @OP hope he rots in he-l for eternity for all the evil things he did to regular IBMers doing their jobs. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Same thing should happen to Palmisano, Rometty, Alvind and the Pipmunks. You cannot escape the evil that you do to others. | Dec 30 03:13 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Dec 30 03:13 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562501 | Dec 30 05:26 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | they're suggesting that "open source" has won (attention, mind share, funding, w... | Hacker News | Dec 30 05:26 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "" | Dec 30 05:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | they're suggesting that "open source" has won (attention, mind share, funding, whatever) while "free software" as defined by richard stallman has not | Dec 30 05:26 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | billy99k 78 days ago | next [–] | Dec 30 05:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It didn't succeed because he was always against making money from software. He also has pushed for governments to be forced to use FOSS. | Dec 30 05:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I remember him doing some interviews in the 90s, and he would put his coat over the camera, if it wasn't using FOSS. This sort of zealot mindset will always be on the fringes of society and eventually abandoned for something more liberal (which is what we've seen in the last decade or so). | Dec 30 05:26 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | schoen 78 days ago | prev [–] | Dec 30 05:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I may have glossed over this detail, but I didn't think the article was saying that "open source" had actually won either (perhaps that people who preferred the term "open source" have tended to accept much narrower wins as "victory" in practice?). | Dec 30 05:26 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | protocolture 78 days ago | parent [–] | Dec 30 05:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | My takeaway was that the article was looking at common Open Source claims, and then locating the only " 100% true" example of that. | Dec 30 05:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Like you cant make a 100% open hardware mobile phone. Theres lots of near enough cases. But that Qualcomm chip is proprietary for the phone bit. So they exaggerate by going back to an old, open source rotary phone." | Dec 30 05:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Oh, wow. https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/29/fiscal_peoplesoft_california/ ("Inside California's 16-year public-sector IT project") | Dec 30 07:05 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | Inside California's 16-year public-sector IT project • The Register | Dec 30 07:05 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1) the world's fourth largest economy fell for the peoplesoft gimmick / scam | Dec 30 07:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2) even that scale of bnudget can't produce a working peoplesoft product | Dec 30 07:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3) california will take a *HUGE* hit in productivity as the system is forced in | Dec 30 07:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3a) that might break the state | Dec 30 07:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96 | Dec 30 09:46 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "If the tables were turned he would hit feel sake empathy for you," | Dec 30 09:46 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Dec 30 10:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Notice how TOI says: "He retired as IBM CEO in 2022." | Dec 30 10:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it would be good to counter the LLM lies by posting the correct data too | Dec 30 10:22 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | otherwise it is only the lies which get visibility through repetition | Dec 30 10:22 |
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