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.
“What does weather have to do with the Computer Industry?”
It was never about “the weather”, and always about the data. You are looking at the hole not the donut. Data and A.I. use of data has been a growing and evolving part of IBM’s “core” business of serving business customers. They will never make a PC for you and they don’t care if that bugs you.