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[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 135 points 1 day ago (8 children)

But if everyone else is down too, you don't look so bad 🧠

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 69 points 1 day ago (6 children)

No one ever got fired for buying IBM.

[–] cdzero@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I wouldn't be so sure about that. The state government of Queensland, Australia just lifted a 12 year ban on IBM getting government contracts after a colossal fuck up.

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's an old joke from back when IBM was the dominant player in IT infrastructure. The idea was that IBM was such a known quantity that even non-technical executives knew what it was and knew that other companies also used IBM equipment. If you decide to buy from a lesser known vendor and something breaks, you might be blamed for going off the beaten track and fired (regardless of where the fault actually lay), whereas if you bought IBM gear and it broke, it was simply considered the cost of doing business, so buying IBM became a CYA tactic for sysadmins even if it went against their better technical judgement. AWS is the modern IBM.

AWS is the modern IBM.

That's basically why we use it at work. I hate it, but that's how things are.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

if you bought IBM gear and it broke, it was simply considered the cost of doing business,

IBM produced Canadian Phoenix Pay system has entered the chat with a record 0 firings.

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