Anyone who has been paying attention knows that IBM, once the dominant force in all computerdom and technology in general has slipped more than a little. Or has it really? I think not.
People believe that the company fades. Here are some indicators:
- The company delivered the PC business, perhaps wisely, but never well with any type of mobile device. No IBM phone, for example.
- The name IBM used to be printed on all kinds of scales meat products to the synchronization of clocks (I have a) different types of cards, computers of all kinds, giant stores. Now it seems that everything he does is a matter wave cloud computing e-Watson 1980 an expert system with a gussied fantastic voice recognition interactive interface speak.
- The company was himself (redemption) also purchases quickly as possible to reduce the number of outstanding shares. By reducing the number of shares of its decline in revenue still looks good on the basis of earnings per share. Everyone is doing this tour.
So, this is bad, right? If the anomaly in the history of IBM is examined, you may think differently.IBM is a real value to people in R & D that have helped IBM lead the list of companies with the largest number of US patents granted year after year. That has never stopped growing. Last year was 7.355 patents issued to IBM (Monitoring 5072-4134 Samsung and Canon, with delivery later that Qualcomm 2900 and 2835 with Google).
The patent system is out of control as many of these patents are silly algorithm or software blocking patents for preventing others away from certain technologies. The point, however, is that IBM has been at the forefront of this package for more than two decades and shows no sign of slowing. That is unless you think 7355 is slowing from its account 2,014 7,534 patents. In 2013, he obtained a simple 6809.
These figures are exaggerated when you stop to consider that the patents were intended to protect small inventors and businesses. Now the system is used to dominate that goes low. Good work, the USPTO.
A large number of patents being IBM are on the analysis of data and so-called cognitive calculation as Watson. Which in turn includes "about" a billion dollars a year from licensing, which seems low to me. I say this because your site license, IBM claims to have 250,000 experts who will work with you to find the patent for your business.
These experts probably generate at least $ 100,000 in each company every year, I think it is conservative. They do the math and that is $ 25 billion. This makes sense when the company intends to leave $ 6 billion in R & D each year. In fact, do not be surprised if most of its revenue came from licensing, and more than $ 25 billion. total sales of IBM are about $ 82 billion.
This is where IBM has always been headed. Its products were only for platforms of most inventions. Once enough patented inventions, such as the Thinkpad, which sold out of the product range and moves to something else is received. At this time, it is artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
Products like Watson are in the news to keep thinking that IBM is actually a product of society and not the equivalent of a massive patent troll institutionalized.
The company may have started this process long before the days of the IBM PC. Probably not hard, semiconductors, laptops, the hard operating company systems or software of any kind, including social networking sites like Twitter, you do not pay IBM fees.
In other words, with this business model, IBM will not make short-term bankruptcy.
