You can’t ask Steve Jobs but you can ask Tim Cook. Ask Steve Ballmer at Microsoft if he likes my work and he may very well say “no.” Ask Larry Ellison. I call them like I see them and always have. Tough talk, I know, but I’ll offer up right here and now a very public experiment to prove what I mean. It means the IBM that many of us knew in the past is gone and the IBM of today has management that is, frankly, insane. So I, who like to be the first to break these stories, have to in this case write the second day lede: what does it all mean? Well the layoffs began hitting a couple weeks ago just before I went into an involuntary technical shutdown trying to move this rag from one host to another. Big layoffs were coming, they feared, following an earnings shortfall that caused panic in Armonk with the prospect that IBM might after all miss its long-stated earnings target for 2015. A month ago I began hearing about impending layoffs at IBM, but what could I say beyond “layoffs are coming?” This time my first clues came not from American IBMers but from those working for Big Blue abroad.

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