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My experience with Watson is a manager asking if I had any project ideas for it because the company had “Watson time” that no one could think of a way to use. I
by davemp 8y ago
My experience with Watson is a manager asking if I had any project ideas for it because the company had “Watson time” that no one could think of a way to use. I tried to picture the chain of events necessary for the exchange to have taken place that wasn’t comical. I failed.
After being forced into ClearCase use at another company, I couldn’t help but imagine how much damage IBM sales has done to the software industry. How many inferior products have been propped up and resources drained by such dishonest sales practices and poor leadership?
- Spooky23 8y agoI’ve been in similar positions, but you can’t blame IBM — the situation that you found yourself in has everything to do with decision making at your employer. You could tell the same story or worse about Oracle, HP, etc. The difference is that IBM’s strategy of tying hardware to solutions has kept it viable far longer than its competitors. I’d argue that Microsoft is worse — at least IBM treats your boss’ boss to steak and golf. Microsoft burrows in with bundled ELAs. The annual cost to carry support + maintenance on some products is going to be as high as 39% of product price!
- davemp 8y ago> but you can’t blame IBM — the situation that you found yourself in has everything to do with decision making at your employer I partially agree. I would say that both IBM and companies that get suckered by them are dysfunctional.