Actually not at all, I haven't really heard much from IBM lately and I don't really know what they have been doing lately. my post was just a simple question.
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Apple and IBM Team Up For Major Enterprise Mobility Partnership
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Actually not at all, I haven't really heard much from IBM lately and I don't really know what they have been doing lately. my post was just a simple question.
As suspicious as the Foxconn factory worker conditions are at least Apple, unlike IBM wasn't directly connected to the cataloging and analysis of German concentration camp inmates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
How did this work the last time? Oh, yeah...
I'm sad to to say it, but this will do nothing but tarnish the Apple brand.
I'm sad to to say it, but this will do nothing but tarnish the Apple brand.
It's a good partnership, no doubt. IBM is still a strong force in enterprise. And Apple knows how to do mobile devices well.
And uhhh, this does NOT whatsoever indicate some kind of Apple-IBM merger. I don't know why people even come to that stupid conclusion.
And uhhh, this does NOT whatsoever indicate some kind of Apple-IBM merger. I don't know why people even come to that stupid conclusion.
Yes, that's why IBM is a multi-billion dollar company....because their services are a joke.
Microsoft is a billion dollar company even though their hardware is a joke.
I think that the "Mobility Partnership" says it all. It means that IBM certainly will be adopting and pushing Apple's mobile devices into enterprise. Macs do not necessarily fall into that "mobile" category. But iPhones and iPads do.
This makes even more sense now that BlackBerry, once the reigning king of enterprise mobility, is now on its deathbed. The IBM-Apple mobile partnership would simply fill in the void that BlackBerry once occupied.
So think of it this way: in the past decade, IBM employees probably all carried BlackBerries around. Now, in the coming decade, they will be carrying iPhones and iPads around.
Is that a Marathon logo I see as your icon?
Bungie is another company that should just die!
Part of me died inside when I realized it took 5 pages for someone to mention this important fact.
If it weren't for IBM - Apple would be dead. Without a doubt.
Motorola (Later Freescale) would never have been able to produce Apple's chips by themselves, and a x86 transition in the 90s would have killed Apple instantly.
As a product market innovator? No.
As a primary computing technology researcher? Yes! and their patent suite is impressive.
As a legacy Fortune 400 IT support firm? Very much so.
I would not be surprised this came after a long hard three-way shoot out between Android, Windows Mobile and iOS.
I would guess apple will allow IBM to come up with a more advanced management services like Profile Manager that scale better. Apple's current server offerings are only good for small businesses and allowing IBM to manage some of the core apple services for enterprise customers would be a huge plus for iOS in the enterprise market. Apple already uses IBM for the majority of it's datacenter, so a lot of the work may already be done.
If anything major ever comes out of this partnership it could be the final nail in the coffin for Oracle. They've already killed almost everything good Sun had going for itself.
If anything major ever comes out of this partnership it could be the final nail in the coffin for Oracle. They've already killed almost everything good Sun had going for itself.
Not only the issues that were mentioned but look at the video from the CNBC interview. IBM CEO Virginia Rometty says security over and over. This was fully intentional and will be key to what they are doing from IBM's prospective.
Simply put, beyond all that was announced and is visible from the surface, IBM will sell to CTO's and IT management that they now have a method to bring BYOD under control. IT people are control freaks by nature- ( I should know I am one, an IT person and a control freak). They have NEVER liked BYOD but had it forced on them by corporate management in the name of cost control. This alliance will allow CTO's to fight back with proven management support from the major vendor in the IT enterprise. After all these years it's still true-No one gets fired for buying IBM. Please remember what Tim said about Android at WWDC. King of malware. IBM will argue that you can not connect your major decision making systems to a mobile platform unless it has full enterprise security and has enterprise level management-and that there is only one platform that has it all : iOS with IBM support.
You have that right. In short, in the 90's both IBM and Apple were beaten from the "Wintel clones" of Intel / AMD processors and system houses such as Compaq, HP, Dell and Acer to name a few.
IBM and Apple were a pair of old rivals that needed to team up saving each others skins from a swarm of locus that was making PC a commodity market. IBM had the primary research and Apple had the marketing and design hutzpah to make it go right.
The Power PC platform kept Apple going 'til Steve came back and decided to switch to Intel after OS X was matured and established.
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What IBM has is their name, support staff and their distribution channels. Expect a handful of established iOS developers to get a call from Armonk, NY.
If you think Silicon Valley has deep pockets for company buyouts, the Tom Watson trusts can almost issue their own currency if they desire.
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I wouldn't be surprised of IBM walked out of Mountain View rejecting a way immature corporate staff still drunk on their own success.
Also, to IBM customers, data security of a very big issue. This is one of Android's weak-points. I wouldn't be surprised of Apple got the IBM deal purely on data security and integrity.
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The NSA?
Where do Apple and IBM even compete, except for IBM making laptops like everybody else?