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It's about time. Autonomy was like the Donald Trump of tech companies.
by kwillets 8y ago
It's about time. Autonomy was like the Donald Trump of tech companies.
- sjg007 8y agoWhat specifically? Did they sell vaporware or something?
- jburgess777 8y agoThis article provides more background information than the original story: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/mike_lynch_autonomy_fraud_charge/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/mike_lynch_autonomy... Earlier in the year the former CFO was convicted of fraud: https://www.ft.com/content/49411f5e-4ccb-11e8-8a8e-22951a2d8493 https://www.ft.com/content/49411f5e-4ccb-11e8-8a8e-22951a2d8...
- dang 8y agoThanks, we've changed to that first URL from https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lynch-the-ex-autonomy-boss-charged-with-fraud-in-the-us-2018-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lynch-the-ex-autonomy-b....
- qnsi 8y agoSuprisingly, they never mention what Autonomy is selling. Have everyone in UK heard about the company?
- flossball 8y agoWas going to say the same thing. Horrible stripper lunch sales practices and outright lies about product capabilities. So sad that shit works, but most IT execs are idiots and they knew how to exploit them. They could get execs to save face and sign off on bumbling through two years delivering non-functional crap that could never do what was promised for millions.
- kwillets 8y agoA colleague once told me an Autonomy rep was sleeping with the client he worked for previously. It was all based on hooking the primary approver and covering up the actual usage of the "product".
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