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A comment on IBM’s Old Playbook. Parent comment

Re:IBM’s Old Playbook by jacquesm on Monday October 29, 2018 @09:03PM (#18333164)
> There can be no growth because contractors don't scale.

Except of course that when you employ 300K of them it does scale. The mistake many software people make is that only software scales, but IBM (and others) has successfully built a scalable model around consulting.

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Re:IBM’s Old Playbook by user5994461 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:25AM (#18335825)
It scales strictly linearly with the number of sub contractors.
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