Sam Palmisano of IBM writes an op-ed in the WSJ asking Obama to spend on smart grids, healthcare IT and broadband. A "$ 30 billion stimulus investment ...could yield almost one million new jobs within a year"
I am all for that.
Now here is something Sam and IBM can do for the country.
His customers pay him way more than that each year for decades-old software like DB2, Lotus, Tivoli, Websphere. For old data centers some representing bunkers from the cold war arena. For years old outsourcing contracts which do not leverage efficiencies of global delivery, SaaS and cloud computing.
Slash those costs and free those customer budgets up for technology innovation.
Let's get away from that past. Let's build in his words - "a smarter future"
Holy Smokes Vinnie,
Do you want us all to eat our own dogfood? Al Gore to fly Southwest with you and give up the 35,000 square foot crib?
As The Onion reported, 95% of Americans favor Mass Transit for other people. I'm surprised it wasn't closer to 100%.
Posted by: Tom | January 14, 2009 at 09:16 AM
Tom, do you not think it is hypocritical for IBM to talk about not investing in the past when their own business model is driven by milking software developed a long time ago, and services implementing software like SAP past its prime and from on-premise outsourcing?
I could see Marc Benioff or Eric Schmidt or Steve Jobs making those comments because they are leading the country with new age technologies and concepts, but Sam?
Posted by: vinnie mirchandani | January 14, 2009 at 09:22 AM