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IBM makes mistakes but IBM is massive. You expect some things to happen just by the sheer surface area they have. I'd trust IBM over random outsourced coding h
by crowbahr 9y ago
IBM makes mistakes but IBM is massive. You expect some things to happen just by the sheer surface area they have.
I'd trust IBM over random outsourced coding houses when it comes to IT Security.
- raesene9 9y agoI wouldn't. IBM have made it a strategic goal to move their staff to "low cost locations" and are even now getting rid of staff in higher cost locations. for example https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/26/ibm_asks_contractors_to_take_a_pay_cut/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/26/ibm_asks_contractor... doesn't sound like a company I'd want to trust.
- rhizome 9y agoPretty convenient that IBM's size lets them remain trusted for things that would disqualify random companies for a given outcome. Why pay so much more for the same problem? What is the conversation that makes this happen? "Yeah, let's go with IBM. The same problems might crop up, but they're a larger company."
- raverbashing 9y agoIBM can mismanage projects and deliver subpar results and people will keep giving them millions of dollars for it "because" The smaller shop have more reasons to try harder and deliver a better result. IBM will just hire the cheapest people they can find and put them under 5 levels of management and good luck with that!
- devonkim 9y agoPeople in this thread talk about IBM like they're the only well known vendor that does this - far from it. All of IBM's enterprise competitors doing professional and managed services such as HP do this as an industry practice. This has everything to do with their customers treating IT as cost centers. I very much believe in hate the game, not the player.
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