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I know of a finance company where years ago, IT was outsourced to IBM. Many of the VPs and Directors lost huge pensions when converting over to IBM. Once the IB

by jmpman 5y ago

I know of a finance company where years ago, IT was outsourced to IBM. Many of the VPs and Directors lost huge pensions when converting over to IBM. Once the IBM contract was discontinued, and those VPs/Directors returned to direct employment, an interesting thing happened. Those VPs and Directors colluded to eliminate the mainframe at any cost. Hypothetically, redeveloping an application in Java cost $5M to save $1M in mainframe cost - approved. Anything to hurt IBM’s chance of taking over IT again.

Johnny555 5y ago
Is this a cautionary tale about IBM, or outsourcing in general? The company that outsourced their IT operations to IBM probably outsourced the development work for that $5M Java application too.
- jmpman 5y ago
  I’m sure Infosys or TCS got a good portion of that chunk. I was mostly conveying the story, because decisions to get off mainframes aren’t always pure financial analysis… vindictive VPs are likely inhibiting IBM in other companies too.
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