IBM’s Proposed Overpriced Acquisition Of ‘Red Hat’ Will NOT Stem The Bleeding.
This from “MarketWatch”. Click to ENLARGE. Google for more coverage.
Click to access my recent post.
They ENDED up buying the ‘Weather COMPANY’ without the Channel. But, they made the acquisition nonetheless. Click to access my post.
Another desperate, drunken-lurch by ‘gin-and-tonic’ Ginni Rometty to distract the market & investors and DESPERATELY cling onto her job for another year.
This is but a shiny object to distract.
Open Source Linux will NOT stem the bleeding at IBM. Red Hat, of late, was also losing money.
Open Source does NOT command the margins that IBM needs — and got so used to, for over 70-years, with its PROPRIETARY systems, e.g., mainframes, 8100s, S/36s etc.
The market has changed, fundamentally.
Over the last 30-years IBM missed every single major market move. It let the likes of Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, NVidia steal the show.
Oh, and don’t forget IBM has its own version of UNIX, AIX — and has had it for 20+ years. It will take years to transition from AIX to a different flavor of Unix.
IBM’s days as an acquirer are gone.
IBM needs to be ACQUIRED by the likes of Amazon or Google.
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The Picture Of The Day (Google Pixel 2) + 6 Also-Rans — October 28.
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Taken with my Google Pixel 2 Phone.
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The Silly Soap Opera That Is Sri Lankan Politics Starts A New Season — The Silliest Yet!
Click to access the U.K. “The Guardian” original.
Click image to access “The New York Times” coverage.
This is so stupid, pointless and childish. This has been now going on for 40-years and we have only been Independent for 70.
But, here is the IRONY.
Sri Lanka is still a third-world country and you expect histrionics from the likes of it. But, compared to Donald Trump, and the totally mockery he is making of the U.S. Presidency, this does not look that bad. If anything it is still MORE civil and constrained compared to the carryings on of Trump.
So, I no longer can tell my dear compatriots — and in many cases contemporaries — to grow-up and act us adults.
I live in a country run by a buffoon with a mental age of a 9-year old!
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The Picture Of The Day (Sony a7 II) + 6 Also-Rans — October 27, 2018.
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A Tutorial On The ‘Red Poppy’ & Its Significance By ‘The Royal British Legion’ Ahead Of 2018 Poppy Day.
Click image to access this excellent tutorial. Thank you.
Over the last few years I have done a fair amount to educate folks, especially in the U.S., on the ‘Red Poppy‘ significance and our British tradition of ‘Poppy Day‘ — on November 11th each year.
This tutorial, by the ‘mothership’, so to speak, will help.
Poppy Day 2018 — Royal British Legion ‘Poppy Appeal’ Video.
Start here for a large COMPENDIUM of “Red Poppy” information
— history, significance, traditions & photos.
Click to access ‘The Royal British Legion’ Poppy Appeal 2018 page.
This post kicks off our 2018
Poppy Day/Remembrance Day Commemorations.
Halloween Watch Faces For Garmin Watches — Fenix, Forerunner, Vivoactive Etc.
Click to access ‘Garmin Connect IQ’ download page.
Click to access ‘Garmin Connect IQ’ download page.
Got a heads up on this from Garmin via Twitter.
Realized that this would be of interest to some of you.
They haven’t been downloaded as much I would have expected.
So, I am letting you.
Not my cup of tea. I am happy having ‘ActiFace‘ on my new Fenix 5 Plus all the time.
Happy Halloween. Cheers.
My Halloween selfie.
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The Picture Of The Day (Sony a7 II) + 6 Also-Rans — October 26, 2018.
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Selfie For Halloween.
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This should be ample material for classic nightmares.
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‘Polar FT1 Heart Rate Monitor’ Now Available At HRM USA.
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These are for folks that just want an accurate, reliable and fully-featured, heart rate monitor they can wear on their wrist — albeit with the monitoring done with a wireless strap around the chest.
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