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What is the connection to the Soviet Union? Were they a large IBM customer?
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
What is the connection to the Soviet Union? Were they a large IBM customer?
- prodmerc 11y agoNo, but the people who were afraid of them were :-)
- lemevi 11y agoCold War funds for department of defense and other federal departments dried up.
- osullivj 11y agoBoth IBM and USSR were bloated, inefficient, slow moving, hierarchical, bureaucratic organisations. Gorbachev failed to save his org, despite heroic efforts. Gerstner did rescue IBM. Maybe if Gorby had saved the USSR Putin would still be working for the KGB in Berlin...