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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by taneq on Friday July 14, 2017 @02:02AM (#14767863)
> The majority of their offerings are overengineered and prone to failure in a production setting.

What do you mean by 'over engineered' in this context? The usual way I've seen that term used would imply 'reliable but more expensive than necessary' rather than 'unreliable'.

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by mahyarm on Friday July 14, 2017 @01:39PM (#14771629)
In software it sometimes means overcomplicated for the scope that delivers little value but high cost in usage due to the complexity.

Think J2EE and their xml config files.

Or using hadoop and kubernetes when a sqllite db on digital ocean will do

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