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Nobody has (still) ever been fired for hiring IBM. They have a very strong brand in traditional corporate industries, which have an endless demand for IBM serv

Nobody has (still) ever been fired for hiring IBM. They have a very strong brand in traditional corporate industries, which have an endless demand for IBM services.

yellowapple 2y ago
> Nobody has (still) never been fired for hiring IBM. I'm pretty sure I came pretty damn close the one and only time I opted for IBM Cloud (which was called "Bluemix" back then). In fairness, running a PostgreSQL DB in a container wasn't the brightest idea on my part, and it was also my fault for not having backups in place, but when Bluemix ate our entire prod DB, and the multiple-weeks-long back-and-forth with IBM's support only yielded something along the lines of "whoops, that sucks, good luck building a new DB instance from scratch", we rather quickly jumped ship to AWS and never looked back. I'm sure IBM Cloud is better these days, though it was a bit telling that during my brief time working for IBM my primary job was to build customers' stuff on AWS instead of IBM Cloud. Go figure.
- rmbyrro 2y ago
  And yet, you haven't been fired
- ghaff 2y ago
  Bluemix wasn’t really IBM Cloud. It was what turned out to be ill-advised backing of Cloud Foundry but a lot of companies did that with a certain degree of public ridicule falling on those who didn’t fall in line.
486sx33 2y ago
Whomever hired IBM to build this mess should have been fired https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system
- stonethrowaway 2y ago
  There’s a lot of ass coverage involved. Someone came in temporarily, was given a certain title, hired IBM, left shortly afterwards. People shift, staff turn over, and before anyone knew what happened nobody knows who said what.
throwaway9980 2y ago
If someone in my organization buys IBM, I will fire them. That said, I’m confident that they know better.
- rmbyrro 2y ago
  I bet your org is not the IBM target market.

Nobody has (still) ever been fired for hiring IBM. They have a very strong brand in traditional corporate industries, which have an endless demand for IBM services.

yellowapple 2y ago

> Nobody has (still) never been fired for hiring IBM. I'm pretty sure I came pretty damn close the one and only time I opted for IBM Cloud (which was called "Bluemix" back then). In fairness, running a PostgreSQL DB in a container wasn't the brightest idea on my part, and it was also my fault for not having backups in place, but when Bluemix ate our entire prod DB, and the multiple-weeks-long back-and-forth with IBM's support only yielded something along the lines of "whoops, that sucks, good luck building a new DB instance from scratch", we rather quickly jumped ship to AWS and never looked back. I'm sure IBM Cloud is better these days, though it was a bit telling that during my brief time working for IBM my primary job was to build customers' stuff on AWS instead of IBM Cloud. Go figure.

rmbyrro 2y ago
And yet, you haven't been fired
ghaff 2y ago
Bluemix wasn’t really IBM Cloud. It was what turned out to be ill-advised backing of Cloud Foundry but a lot of companies did that with a certain degree of public ridicule falling on those who didn’t fall in line.

486sx33 2y ago

Whomever hired IBM to build this mess should have been fired https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system

stonethrowaway 2y ago
There’s a lot of ass coverage involved. Someone came in temporarily, was given a certain title, hired IBM, left shortly afterwards. People shift, staff turn over, and before anyone knew what happened nobody knows who said what.

throwaway9980 2y ago

If someone in my organization buys IBM, I will fire them. That said, I’m confident that they know better.

rmbyrro 2y ago
I bet your org is not the IBM target market.