Re:Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B
by hinkley on Thursday March 01, 2018 @11:00PM
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I have been on the bad side of IBM Global Services both times I’ve encountered them and was warned off by someone with existing beef.
They will build the most complicated thing that could possibly solve the problem. And then you can’t get rid of them because holy shit nobody else wants to deal with their code.
If Rube Goldberg and H P Lovecraft had a child it would weep in despair knowing that in all its life it would never create something as sinister and complex as the stuff IGS makes before breakfast.
They were trying to charge $80k a year for a proxy server to handle XML RPC. For a system that was basically ftp with code signing. Our team took care of the code signing, soup to nuts. To this day I don’t know what they were doing with all that money for a tiny part of the system. Except try to take over. They didn’t expect the wall of competence they encountered.
They will build the most complicated thing that could possibly solve the problem. And then you can’t get rid of them because holy shit nobody else wants to deal with their code.
If Rube Goldberg and H P Lovecraft had a child it would weep in despair knowing that in all its life it would never create something as sinister and complex as the stuff IGS makes before breakfast.
They were trying to charge $80k a year for a proxy server to handle XML RPC. For a system that was basically ftp with code signing. Our team took care of the code signing, soup to nuts. To this day I don’t know what they were doing with all that money for a tiny part of the system. Except try to take over. They didn’t expect the wall of competence they encountered.