Jim Whitehurst to step down as IBM President
I&#x27;d really like to see IBMers talk about the past, present, and future of the company. It looks pretty pale to me.<p>Back in the Thinkpad era, IBM had a lot of cool stuff going on. But now it seems like a shadow.<p>Watson and IBM cloud look like flops. The email fiasco is weird and should never have happened.<p>What did buying Red Hat accomplish? As an outsider, it doesn&#x27;t seem to have infused any new ideas, and the changes to centos just made people move further away AFAIK.<p>Or buying stuff like the Weather Channel?<p>The chip business looks promising. Maybe IBM should double down there?<p>Consulting, in general, seems to not be a great tool to sharpen internal capability. The constant layoffs of the past have also had a hugely deleterious effect.