alt Hacker NewsThey no longer need to. They have a core business to finance whatever stupid ideas ad infinitum. When was Oracle or IBM successful at anything new last time? Yet they chum along with 140k and 280k (!!!) employees.
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derwiki • today at 1:44 PM
280K is down from 400k+ when I worked at the latter 2 decades ago
Doesn't IBM still do high tech research? The only thing I know Oracle does is buy up companies to take over their products (and customers).