Red Hat's Owner is Called "America's Worst Tech Company" (IBM) and Microsoft's Liabilities Grow
"IBM Is America's Worst Tech Company", published two days ago in a well known site that many shareholders read:
We've only just noticed the article above as it's mentioned in this new thread, where the latest comments say: "There is nothing new in the article. IBM is being dismembered. There is very little value in IBM technology. Aside from Z/P series and Storage, everything else is garbage. [...] Exactly what I am thinking talking about, IBMs revenues up 1 percent is nothing - a rounding error for most technology companies. Wake up investors and creditors."
That sets aside the soaring IBM debt. IBM just bought revenues of other companies (at tremendous expense). It's also cooking the books to fool shareholders. Same modus operandi as Microsoft [1, 2].
If IBM is doing as well as it claims (lies), when why so many layoffs? it's not about workers' performance, it's about cutting costs to 'survive' (cheapening the services, culling skilled but "expensive" staff). Posted 2 hours ago by Anonymous:
Got PIP’d after two bad quarters. Had just been granted the Chairman’s award of 184 shares of stock for my “outstanding and continued commitment to the company’s success , was given a $15k raise a month before that, along with other recognition. IBM does not care about you. Just know that and take them for all the money that they can give you. They over paid me be many thousands one year and never came back for it… I waited but they didn’t. It’s gone now :)
An associate recalls very old articles (or posts, perhaps circa 2000-2005, now mostly offline with broken links); here's one remnant from 2001 in a site that has since then been turned into a slopfarm. "IBM to spend $1 billion on Linux in 2001" the headline said.
Some of those showing that IBM had (as the associate puts it) "once invested billions into Linux and made a tidy profit before changing teams and becoming very hostile to FOSS and leveraging that hostility to buy and effectively destroy Red Hat as a brand."
"IBM used to be about profit and not Microsoft ideology."
Citing a 2002 article ("IBM: LINUX INVESTMENT NEARLY RECOUPED") we see more reminiscing. And "again," the associate emphasises, "IBM used to be about making money through hardware and software".
A more recent press article ("IBM Z and Linux Innovation: 20 Years and Counting" by the now-defunct or mostly inactive eWEEK, ruined by Microsoft moles like Peter Galli) said: "IBM became the first Tier 1 vendor to formally support Linux. Though some observers were surprised when the company announced in May 2000 that it would deliver Linux software and services for its flagship mainframes, the enterprises that owned those systems were enthusiastic about the new solutions."
Nowadays IBM is circling down the drain and pulling Red Hat down the drain as well.
Apropos fake financial performance, a reader of ours cited Wikipedia, which we know is heavily manipulated by Microsoft operatives (not a new problem) and is moreover being bribed by both Bill Gates and Microsoft. IBM is a lot like Microsoft these days, including the size and including the impending mass layoffs (apparently 10% of Microsoft's workforce will be cut later this year).
This is what the reader wrote, citing "Microsoft finances: Wikipedia":
These figures are from the "Finance" section of the Wikipedia page for Microsoft:
Year Revenue Net income Total Assets Employees in billion US$ in billion US$ in billion US$
2005 39.7 12.2 70.8 61,000 2006 44.2 12.5 69.5 71,000 2007 51.1 14.0 63.1 79,000 2008 60.4 17.6 72.7 91,000 2009 58.4 14.5 77.8 93,000 2010 62.4 18.7 86.1 89,000 2011 69.9 23.1 108 90,000 2012 73.7 16.9 121 94,000 2013 77.8 21.8 142 99,000 2014 86.8 22.0 172 128,000 2015 93.5 12.1 174 118,000 2016 91.1 20.5 193 114,000 2017 96.5 21.2 250 124,000 2018 110 16.5 258 131,000 2019 125 39.2 286 144,106 2020 143 44.2 301 163,000 2021 168 61.2 333 181,000 2022 198 72.7 364 221,000 2023 211 72.3 411 238,000 2024 245 88.1 512 228,000
Revenue which was 39.7 billion dollars in 2005 grew 34 billion dollars between 2023 and 2024. In the same period total assets grew even more: 101 billion dollars.
If the above figures are correct Microsoft is experiencing robust growth. Financial difficulties should be far off.
I know that Windows 11 is not popular. There are reports that transition from Windows 10 is slow. Moreover the desktop is losing popularity. Recently I hear news of ISPs quitting personal website hosting services. In spite of efforts with Windows 8, Microsoft has not gained popularity in the portable device market.
Are the above figures accurate? Sustained growth looks difficult in the current environment. On the other hand, is it possible to fabricate the numbers?
Revenue is NOT profit and a lot of these figures serve to mislead. The "assets" are also fake and liabilities grow fast. Microsoft has about a quarter of a trillion (yes, trillion with a "T") in liabilities. █
"Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, declared a profit of $4.5 billion in 1998; when the cost of options awarded that year, plus the change in the value of outstanding options, is deducted, the firm made a loss of $18 billion, according to Smithers."