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发帖数: 12088 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: feebe (No TO SCA5), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: ibm将裁员11万
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jan 24 15:46:19 2015, 美东)
IBM is expected to go through a massive reorg next month that will
reportedly see 26% of its 430,000-strong work force let go, or 111,800
people. If that figure holds true, that would make it far and away the
largest corporate layoff event in history, breaking the record previously
held by IBM, when it cut 60,000 in 1993.
The report comes from long-time Silicon Valley journalist Robert X. Cringely
, who recently published an eBook on IBM's issues entitled The Decline and
Fall of IBM. He blamed past CEOs Louis Gerstner and Sam Palmisano for making
the mess and current CEO Virginia Rometty has done nothing to address them.
The problem is a complex mess of bad management – like laying off important
people in the middle of a project – to getting sidetracked with pie-in-the
-sky ideas like commercializing Watson and failing to adjust to the new era.
The "M" in IBM may mean machines, but hardware is less than 10% of its
business. Two-thirds is in services, and the services pipeline has dried up.
Why? Well, according to an ex-IBMer I spoke to some time ago, who confirmed
what Cringely wrote in his book, IBM is still wedded to services contracts
in an age where companies are shutting down their internal data center
entirely and moving everything to the cloud. If you don't have a data center
, you don't need an IBM service contract to manage it.
That's why IBM grabbed Softlayer, the cloud services provider. It needed to
get into the cloud fast because it was behind Microsoft, Google and Amazon.
Since the purchase 18 months ago, IBM has put a huge amount of money into
SoftLayer and there has been a number of announcements around SoftLayer
services.
Cringely said the mainframe and storage areas will see deep cuts, which is
pretty stupid considering IBM announced the new Z13 mainframe and hopes it
will stimulate sales. That won't be easy when you cut the people who are
supposed to sell it. Cutting storage is also foolish, as we are in the era
of Big Data and Data Lakes and storage is vital to these concepts.
And you have to wonder what a layoff of 110,000 people will do to the firm.
That has to be jarring. I remember an old advertisement from the print days
that said "What's worse, getting laid off on a Friday or being told to pick
up the slack on the following Monday?" This will be undeniably upsetting to
the survivors, who will likely spend time updating their LinkedIn profiles.
The question I have to ask is why isn't Rometty one of the 110k. IBM has
seen 11 straight quarters of declining revenue and it's hemorrhaging
customers, according to both my source and Cringely. It's becoming apparent
she is not up for the job and can't pull the company out of its nose dive.
Cringely said the layoffs will begin next week and by the end of February,
all of the employees will be gone. If nothing else, IBM's first quarter
numbers will take a monstrous hit from the severance packages for 111,000
employees. To say nothing of what this will do to its customer confidence. |
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