You pretend to know IBM’s “core” business better than IBm does.
IBM continues in the vein and style it began - serving the business needs of businesses, not so much consumers, and bigger businesses more than small ones. IBM hardware continues to evolve and continues to serve businesses in the main way IBM has always done - storage of data and applications and delivery of applications to the office user. The old IBM green screen terminals were no more at the heart of that than the PC is today, so the PC was not at the heart of evolving the IBM “core” business. But data more than ever has become “core” to IBM and that data, whether “weather” or zillions of other stuff is a value to how IBM is evolving its core business.
What does weather have to do with the Computer Industry? Nothing, considering IBM lost a billion dollars and finally wised up and sold the money loser.
It’s equivalent to GE investing in TV networks or a finance company, both cost them dearly.
It’s like Apple bringing in an executive that sold Pepsi before taking over a technology company. To their credit they corrected the situation by bringing back Steve Jobs.
It’s like Boeing bringing in accountants to replace engineers and planes start falling out of the sky.
It’s like HP bringing in an Ebay Executive that sold off a major portion of the company and lost a ONE BILLION dollar per year account.
Microsoft to the credit fixed their mistake and got rid of Steve Balmer who didn’t know anything about technology and replaced him with someone who understood the company and turned it around before they went into oblivion.
The Technology is full of examples of colossal failures by management that cost companies their livelihood.
I’ve watched to many grown men grown men crying like babies after getting kicked out after 30 plus years of loyal employment due to gross mismanagement by executives who could not sell anything.