IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the U.S.

NY Times ^ | 9/28/2017 | Vindu Goel

[RightGeek]

The rest of the article is Times telling us what a swell thing this is.

[A_Former_Democrat]

I’m curious as to how many in management there are white expats?

Lots I’d bet

[Sacajaweau]

This really disgusts me. Research should be done here. We’re the ones that take it from “0” to “1”.

[jimmygrace]

I worked for IBM in the early 1980’s and they had a famous no layoff policy that did not last into the 21st century.

[henkster]

Well it is “International” Business Machines...

[SandRat]

and they all claim, that each of them, are able to speak and understand American English.

[discostu]

No layoffs is an easy policy when revenue keeps going up. But they keep missing boats. They continued to bet on big iron as the world went small, they completely ignored virtualization, and they haven’t noticed they could become a serious cloud company in about 5 minutes.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They had quite a few employees at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, etc.

[dfwgator]

That’s gonna leave a mark.

[deport]

Manufacturing has gone overseas in most industries.
Sales/service type employment is the dominate sector.

United States Largest Private Employers (as of 2016)[1][2]
Rank	Employer	Global number of Employees
1	Wal-Mart Stores	2,300,000
2	Kroger	443,000
3	Yum China	420,000
4	International Business Machines	414,400
5	The Home Depot	406,000
6	McDonald's	375,000
7	Berkshire Hathaway	367,700
8	Amazon.com	341,400
9	FedEx	335,767
10	United Parcel Service	335,520

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[wally_bert]

IBM would inflict a horrid cloud based version of Notes that would be somehow worse than the client.

[montag813]

Yep. The fact that IBM let an online bookstore leave it in the cloud computing dust is pretty unbelievable

[zeugma]

Actually, Big Iron wasn't all that bad a bet. They just didn't capitalize on what they had. IBM was doing virtualization long before anyone else of note was. They just weren't fast enough to be able to market what they had in an intelligent way. VMWare ate their lunch and then Microsoft and others jumped on. I remember being amazed at the fact that IBM couldn't market itself out of a paper bag. I mean, they invented containers. Oh well, that's the way it goes when you get to big and don't have a cash cow to sustain you through mistakes.

[discostu]

Big iron was a good bet until it wasn’t. They never took desktops seriously and didn’t understand what desktops meant to the big iron world. Their relationship with virtualization is similar to their desktop relationship, they could do it, but they never understood the implications. Which is funny since VMWare basically brought back big iron, they should have been perfectly lined up for it.

[veracious]

Most of _corporate_Ameria_ are now globalist, non-USA. Actually against USAians and our heritage.

[discostu]

It’s funny how nobody has managed to make an e-mail server that’s not awful. Conceptually it doesn’t seem that hard, but they all stink.

[wally_bert]

Notes seems to be designed by descendants of the Marquis De Sade.

[dljordan]

We have to deal with IBM India every day and they absolutely suck wind.

[Dilbert56]

Of course, India has more than three times as many people as the United States.

[Uncle Miltie]

Microsoft is an Indian company.

Even in Redmond, WA, USA, I would bet (based on my experience there) that the largest citizenship group by country of birth is Indian, not American.