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"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"

• throwaway91111 9y ago
  Please, let this quote be ironic.
  • bdamm 9y ago
    No, it's historic.
    • throwaway7645 9y ago
      No, it's current at many places.
  • sgift 9y ago
    It's a prevailing attitude in buying non-cheap ("enterprise") systems. If you buy one of the big names and it fails you can always say "they are a market leader, it was the best decision with the information we had available" - if you take a leap of faith for a not so well known name and the project fails it will probably cost you your job. People behave accordingly.
• MaysonL 9y ago
  And IBM often tried to get people fired for not buying IBM – a former colleague was once the CIO of the only Fortune 100 company that didn't have a corporate IBM mainframe (one or two of their subsidiaries did, but the conglomerate mother ship did not, only Univac). IBM had quite a few golfing conversations with the CEO trying to get him fired. [This was back in the '70s].
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  • _jal 9y ago
    In the late 90s, the startup I worked for made a marketing deal with IBM. We were mostly running Sun hardware, I was in charge of IT purchasing. After I made it clear we would not be migrating to IBM hardware, they went after my job. The tradition was still going at that point.
• vacri 9y ago
  Maybe, but then again you can't buy IBM if you're forbidden from buying it in the first place. https://www.itnews.com.au/news/queenslands-ibm-ban-lives-on-420969 https://www.itnews.com.au/news/queenslands-ibm-ban-lives-on-...
  • raverbashing 9y ago
    I'm so glad people are getting enough of IBM bullshit
• _pmf_ 9y ago
  They get laid off for being making their department a black hole for money, though.