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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by Swizec on Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:26PM (#14767209)
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"
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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by MaysonL on Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:38PM (#14767267)
And IBM often tried to get people fired for not buying IBM – a former colleague was once the CIO of the only Fortune 100 company that didn't have a corporate IBM mainframe (one or two of their subsidiaries did, but the conglomerate mother ship did not, only Univac). IBM had quite a few golfing conversations with the CEO trying to get him fired. [This was back in the '70s].
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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by _jal on Friday July 14, 2017 @09:36AM (#14769648)
In the late 90s, the startup I worked for made a marketing deal with IBM. We were mostly running Sun hardware, I was in charge of IT purchasing. After I made it clear we would not be migrating to IBM hardware, they went after my job.

The tradition was still going at that point.

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by vacri on Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:57PM (#14767352)
Maybe, but then again you can't buy IBM if you're forbidden from buying it in the first place.

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/queenslands-ibm-ban-lives-on-...

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by raverbashing on Friday July 14, 2017 @03:06AM (#14768101)
I'm so glad people are getting enough of IBM bullshit
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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by _pmf_ on Friday July 14, 2017 @08:21AM (#14769193)
They get laid off for being making their department a black hole for money, though.
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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by throwaway91111 on Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:35PM (#14767253)
Please, let this quote be ironic.
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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by sgift on Friday July 14, 2017 @02:01AM (#14767860)
It's a prevailing attitude in buying non-cheap ("enterprise") systems. If you buy one of the big names and it fails you can always say "they are a market leader, it was the best decision with the information we had available" - if you take a leap of faith for a not so well known name and the project fails it will probably cost you your job. People behave accordingly.
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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by bdamm on Friday July 14, 2017 @12:56AM (#14767581)
No, it's historic.
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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by throwaway7645 on Friday July 14, 2017 @04:20AM (#14768360)
No, it's current at many places.
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