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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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