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You lost me at IBM. IBM is an awful company to deal with. We were interested in getting an IBM data provider for .Net Core to connect to DB2 database. Figuring
by avgDev 5y ago
You lost me at IBM.
IBM is an awful company to deal with. We were interested in getting an IBM data provider for .Net Core to connect to DB2 database. Figuring out the cost was insanely hard and nobody could answer which version we needed. I was then provided with a trial version, which did not work for version of .Net Core I was using. I had to dig deep and spend days figuring out why it wasn't working. I was put in touch with IBM engineer and figured out the issue before he did. After they provided the correct version, the setup was extremely annoying. Placing license files in a folder. Then, I had issues with errors and IBM deleted a bunch of forum threads and I was presented with many dead links.
Many questions on IBM forum were answered with "I sent you a PM", followed by people screaming "why can't you just openly share the solution".
Documentation was awful to non-existent.
They just want to nickle and dime everyone.
I decided IBM doesn't deserve any money, and I am using good ole OleDb to connect to DB2.
- yannoninator 5y agoHow is this anecdote at all relevant to the article?
- nindalf 5y ago“I am angry with this company for their past transgressions. I don’t want their new venture to succeed so I’ll bad mouth them. To make it seem relevant to the thread, I’ll spin this anecdote as emblematic of a culture that can’t succeed.”
- eplanit 5y agoI remember them hyping blockchain in their tv ads a few years ago -- how they were going to revolutionize everything with it. Pure hype. IBM is a great old brand, but all things pass, and it's way overdue for them. New things grow where old things die, and I'm ager to see what follows them.
- artificialLimbs 5y agoInteresting. We've been running an IBM server on prem for 15 years and have had maybe 4 hours downtime. It saved our bacon when ransomware hit as the only thing that didn't get trashed. It holds our PII. It is expensive, and we were considering switching away until the ransomware incident.