12 Different Companies IBM Has Been

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty may be readying the axImage by REUTERS/Albert GeaWith massive layoffs rumored to be in the works at IBM, it looks like the storied company is about to go through a profound transformation. But Big Blue has seen this before, going through boom-bust cycles and different focuses. IBM has in fact tried on a lot of different identities over the past hundred-plus years. You could say it's been a lot of different companies over the years -- some of them overlapping, to be sure, bu