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Juan Pablo Ramirez

Sure. Although sarcasm is all over my comment, from the indie perspective IBM represents the gray man, the heartless corporate without a soul, or definitive head.
That comes from the obscure history from Apple begging, when they were already this grown industry, tapping in government contracts, massive employment, policies, rules.
IBM also represent corporation culture at it's peak. Massive conglomerate monster where employees are just bare numbers, their solutions are okayish but is the legacy of their mindset what drives and paint them as the enemy.

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Drew Watkins

That makes sense. I've been viewing them in a similar mindset to Microsoft... corporate roots but a slow road to becoming more relevant. (ie. Microsoft in the last 3 years). I definitely see where there is still a long way to go through. Since I've never used their legacy products, I don't have as much of a background.

Unfortunately, all the major players are somewhat conglomerates at this point. Google is probably the least so right now, by a hair, but taking Amazon as a whole into account (not just their AWS division), there are definitely some major corporate culture hangups over there.