It isn't. They sold off their PC division to a Chinese compnay. The business services division is fully US based.
"It isn't. They sold off their PC division to a Chinese compnay. The business services division is fully US based."
Yes but have you ever met IBM people? They might as well be from a different planet. Not to mention how badly they've screwed up their big outsourcing customers in the past. IMO, this doesn't bode well for the effort.
"It isn't. They sold off their PC division to a Chinese compnay. The business services division is fully US based."
They just moved a sales division to China too. They are planning on 40,000 employees in India and I don't know how many in China. They are building/have built large research facilities in China and India (you think they're secure?) and are planning on moving all support offshore. They've already moved our level 2 support to India (server and storage).
Sam Palmisano said the PC division wasn't making a profit then the Chinese turned around and with the same old useless American workers made a profit in their first quarter. IBM said the printer division wasn't making a profit so they sold it and it's doing fine now with the same old American workers.
If you move R&D offshore to two potentially hostile countries and want to use the results for our military you've got a security problem. The military will probably require them to do it onshore but IBM is so "globalized" that leaks and spying are inevitable. They caught two Chinese spys in one of their tech divisions a few years ago.