IBM is Becoming a Pile of Expired Patents and Abandoned Buildings, Assets of Little Actual Value
Having laid off a ton of people, borrowed lots of money to fake growth (by acquisition), and sent some jobs to low-paid regions where innovation isn't done
We've not said much about IBM lately, mostly because we're busy compiling long series on pressing issues. IBM is just dying, as usual, as it has been for years if not decades. This was last month: Visual Evidence/Documentation of IBM Dying Like the Dinosaurs
Several giant complexes. Abandoned. Destroyed by intruders.
Uploaded 31 December 2025 was this video of another IBM site with nearly a million views (thus far). "IBM Palisades site," as someone points out is shown in a video that lasts "45min. urban exploration video from ~5 months ago of the closed and abandoned IBM Palisades site. Sad."
Who will buy this from IBM? Estate speculators? And "yes it has been posted before here. It is every bit as creepy as what IBM has become. Joined in the early 80s when IBM was an amazing place. It is a 5 alarm dumpster fire now," someone said. What is IBM going to do with all these abandoned sites?
Lately it has been mentioned that IBM Consulting will be facing mass layoffs (RAs). We already see posts like these today:
HashiCorp also (mass layoffs earlier this year) from around the same time:
IBM appears to be getting rid of key Red Hat engineers this year, but we need verification about ones outside China (we already know what happened there). Fedora is self-destructing. █
