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Re:France's Largest Semiconductor Company Got Nationalized (... by orwin on Thursday January 26, 2023 @06:36PM (#34540405)
Really interesting.

Just a point : being nationalized by Cuba or the USSR in 2022 probably have better outcomes than being under the cusp of any Atos VP. The company will survive by bloodsucking on French and European contracts they do not deserve (but they will manage to respond to the exact hidden specs), then will sell the contract to crosoft or any of their daddies for play money.

Sorry for the serious people working there.

I might be wrong, but I've worked with Atos for 5 years, they are the worst. But their VP have friends in high places.

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Re:France's Largest Semiconductor Company Got Nationalized (... by frozencell on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:05AM (#34543770)
Do you have some arguments along with your testimony?
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Re:France's Largest Semiconductor Company Got Nationalized (... by orwin on Friday January 27, 2023 @04:44AM (#34544302)
We had to buy a Bull (https://atos.net/fr/solutions/data-analytics-business-comput...) and participate in their "Bullion Partner" program to get the right to be involved in h2020 projects.

Our company CEO was very clear that this was just a cash grab from them, asked by France "ministère du numérique" (also, we ended up managing the Bullion software ourselves because their engineers couldn't follow RedHat documentation for more than 10 minutes, while still having to pay the support contract).

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Re:France's Largest Semiconductor Company Got Nationalized (... by tianlong on Friday January 27, 2023 @04:07AM (#34544099)
Interesting! I thought that was the modus operandi of every consulting company (respond to the exact hidden specs from insiders).
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