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Lots of IBM where I work too, can't say a single good thing either.. honestly Watson being a bust is not very surprising! The people who pay the bills get taken
by moocowtruck 9y ago
Lots of IBM where I work too, can't say a single good thing either.. honestly Watson being a bust is not very surprising! The people who pay the bills get taken to fancy parties and dinners by IBM, they give us free "trainings"(sales pitches) where they try to convince us to use something that management has already bought into... Honestly it's all very terrible :(
My sentiment of IBM these days is they sell software which is purposely made bad...and people buy it because, well no one ever got fired for going with IBM.
- virmundi 9y agoIBM workflow was surprisingly well thought out. You could model fluid flows through humans and services. Had a good deployment model I that the flows were scripts unlike IBM WPS 7 which had them embedded in EARs.
- fredley 9y agoThe pattern I've seen: IBM sells things that underdeliver, the solution is always to buy more IBM to fix the inadequacies of whatever it is you've bought already. The go-to line is "Oh that's a know problem with X 3.4, if you upgrade to X 4.5 with Y 2.7 that will fix that problem". This process never stops.
- kiddico 9y agoWhich is partly due to their actual problem solving strategy. Instead of fix the problem with X 3.4, they bought the company that makes Y so they could use that solution. But Y has it's own problems of course. And even if it didn't X should have just been developed along with something like Y. Though it's unlikely that X was even made by IBM anyways.