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Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by vajrabum on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:13PM (#17726839)
I think reading between the lines of the article that they aren't paying IBM for software support.
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Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by rhizome on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:46PM (#17727206)
They don't need to, they're paying a third-party for support. I wouldn't be surprised if the contractor has an IBM support account.
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Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by megaman22 on Thursday August 09, 2018 @03:33PM (#17727673)
IBM really, really does not want anything to do with further developing or supporting Lotus software products. I believe that they gave that whole business over to HCL not long ago.
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Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by rhizome on Friday August 10, 2018 @05:55PM (#17737005)
OK, HCL, but by that token Thinkpads and Deskstars are still being made.
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Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by bunderbunder on Thursday August 09, 2018 @04:17PM (#17728069)
Rumor has it they've largely stopped using it internally, too.
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