Re:IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
by acdha on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:43PM
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> For breach of contract and negligence, IBM were successfully sued, and then banned from all future projects, by the Queensland government in 2013. [0] Which sets you up with a nice precedent and set of documents to see their angle of attack.
I mean, yes, but also think about how long a government can afford to have their lawyers pursue a case like that. If you don't have those kind of resources, it's a lot riskier.
Re:IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
by vidarh on Sunday January 23, 2022 @01:14PM
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They also have a very significant interest in pursuing it, in that they often have to follow procurement rules that prevent them from excluding vendors without good reason. If you think a vendor will be a problem in the future, getting a legal judgement in place may sometimes be necessary to save a lot of grief that a private company can avoid by just privately and quietly blacklisting the vendor in question.
> IBM will not be allowed to enter any new contracts with the State Government until it improves its governance and contracting practices.
With that ban _still live today_, it astonishes me that any corporation would trust the organisation to actually carry through with their obligations. You have to really, really, royally screw up for a government body to consider you anathema.
The old adage of "No one was ever fired for hiring IBM" is no longer true or reasonable.
[0] https://statements.qld.gov.au/statements/72961