Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check
by MaysonL on Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:38PM
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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
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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.