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You could also be IBM and make lots of money while never delivering anything: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-01/canada-to-scrap-ibm-payroll-pla

You could also be IBM and make lots of money while never delivering anything: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-01/canada-to-scrap-ibm-payroll-plan-gone-awry-costing-c-1-billion https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-01/canada-to... Not directly related but comical to me, I recently heard from someone working with IBM that they are really upset over the calls from Washington to regulate big tech. Upset because they aren’t mentioned by politicians or the media as big tech. It’s almost like they don’t really matter anymore.

spyspy 7y ago
When I worked for a research department of the government years back, I was told that IBM contracts were banned in an officially unofficial manner from too many botched projects in the past.
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ethbro 7y ago
> really upset over the calls from Washington to regulate big tech. Upset because they aren’t mentioned by politicians or the media as big tech. To be fair, most of the calls concern American big tech companies. Not sure IBM qualifies anymore. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/technology/ibm-india.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/technology/ibm-india.html
maeln 7y ago
Or Sopra-Steria, or Cap-Gemini, even our national company have been really good at screwing up public projects :) . There was even a project handle by Sopra-Steria that went so awry that even the Government said stop and went on to continue using their old solution. For them to do that takes a loooot of screwing up. Nevertheless, they were still contracted for other projects afterward :) .