Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check

Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by sumedh on Friday July 14, 2017 @12:41AM (#14767520)

> I mean how can a company build shitty products like this and be a world leader in services

Wasn't there a saying that no one got fired for buying IBM.

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by 77pt77 on Friday July 14, 2017 @01:14AM (#14767653)

It's used in real life in a non joking manner.

I've seen it many times.

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by Teever on Friday July 14, 2017 @01:28AM (#14767722)

Yeah, in like 1975.

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by sgift on Friday July 14, 2017 @01:59AM (#14767844)

Or 2017. Things may change, but not as fast as some people hope.

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by chii on Friday July 14, 2017 @03:45AM (#14768227)

if i ran a company, and the manager/*EO level personnel purchased IBM, i would've fired them.

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by recursive on Friday July 14, 2017 @10:27AM (#14770035)

but you didn't, right?

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