Is nobody minding the shop at IBM Corp these days? Yesterday’s heavy New York papers, the Times and the Wall Street Journal, devoted acres of newsprint to the disastrous turn taken in the tide of IBM Corp’s affairs – but alongside, IBM still ran a chirpy RS/6000 ad with a picture of computer-generated bubbles, with […]
Is nobody minding the shop at IBM Corp these days? Yesterday’s heavy New York papers, the Times and the Wall Street Journal, devoted acres of newsprint to the disastrous turn taken in the tide of IBM Corp’s affairs – but alongside, IBM still ran a chirpy RS/6000 ad with a picture of computer-generated bubbles, with a blurb entitled The Computer That Made This Picture is Also Making History; the text includes the message that IBM spends $6,000m a year on research and development – now cut to $5,000m – but the image of John Akers in the bubbles had mysteriously disappeared; and the ad’s caption? Bursting Bubbles…
