In the wake of reporting IBM's second quarter financial results yesterday afternoon, Sam Palmisano, the company's president, chief executive officer, and chairman sent an email to all the employees saying that Big Blue was reorganizing its operations to better reflect the modern IT world. In the moves announced yesterday, a …

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Tuesday 20th July 2010 16:59 GMT peter tomlinson

Meh!

It'll just give them another excuse to screw over some more low-level employees.

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Wednesday 21st July 2010 09:45 GMT Anonymous Coward

Let me guess...

They're going to rename all their product lines.

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1. Wednesday 21st July 2010 10:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  of course
  
  Any brand with Sphere in the title will have it replaced by Balls while Rational will be renamed Plausible...Domino will be renamed Bloody in line with market usage
  
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Wednesday 21st July 2010 11:45 GMT Anonymous Coward

Fantastic

Sounds like the standard plan for a US multinational that has lost grip on its operations. Yes, put the financial officer in charge, after all, building systems and writing software is just about playing with the numbers to maximize short term shareholder return. Keep the stock up just long enough for the old farts running the show to cash in before the company goes down the tubes.

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Wednesday 28th July 2010 09:04 GMT Anonymous Coward

Wasting resources

IBM is the master of doing useless changes. Those groups already work together and could even do more with just some processes changes. But no, they have to make it big and announce to the world how they are going "integrated" (fearing Oracle's message is working?)... it will just be hours and hours of wasted time changing systems naming, titles, etc, etc... been there, seen that.

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