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"Nobody ever got fired for buying an IBM."

• smackeyacky 5y ago
  I knew a couple of people who got fired after getting their org sucked into WebSphere. Long time ago but it does happen occasionally.
  • saberdancer 5y ago
    They were fired because of WebSphere? The quote I mentioned is just a quote, but it points to a part of a reason. If you are a CEO or a high level executive of a big company, going with IBM or Oracle is a safe bet. It's not very likely you will be blamed for failures of IBM or Oracle. It may be a money hole and bad for business but it's a much safer bet than going with some smaller vendor instead of big name vendors.
    • abdulhaq 5y ago
      The "nobody got fired for buying IBM" thing expired decades ago, that mantle passed on to Microsoft. Last 5 - 10 years, nobody gets fired for architecting dozens of microservices in the cloud.