contract "options" are indeed normal. You could also lump in government contracts into the category your thinking about. I've never heard of a scenario where the vendor broke contract by not honoring the options. I also have never dealt with a vendor getting bought out and then not honoring existing contracts. Super fun to watch the corporate drama. I personally don't care for the private equity style business that seems to be an even bigger problem than the investor first/profit centric model that I thought was the worst thing.
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joined 1 year ago
My mid life birthday gift was an electric zero turn mower. Already had all electric yard tools. Will buy Tesla or best option in couple years. Never going to a gas station again!
So indeed, fuck gas
Office culture nuances... I enjoy them.
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I worked for a company where the previous IT dorks named the servers after startrek ships. It's cute at home. Had to rename everything and readdress the whole organization.
It's pretty plain to see IBM afraid of loosing vendor lock-in, but running a software solution designed for an open or distributed platform shouldn't be that big of a threat, right?
All their selling points for z series are the insane hardware performance, redundancy, and tuning.
Isn't it unlikely you're going to get that on some virtual or abstracted mainframe platform?
If I was one of the businesses that's been paying the fortune keeping IBM mainframe alive, I'd stay on it. They measure profits in the billions and saving some money going away from IBM and risking loosing countless dollars per minute seems like a risk...
Oh wait, I forgot, all American Corps are currently (since the 80s-ish), worthless greedy fucks solely focused on short term profit and stock price regardless of long term consequences. Maybe they should save some money on one of the things that's helps make them billions...I bet that golden goose tastes amazing 😄
We are just a little behind trying to elect our new dictator...
But just for a day...
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Nice. Then what's the Spanish equivalent?
I have only visited Rota. Neat place.
Wow, classic.
Merica
I think it's because people (some) are all talk. We bitch about corporate greed and stuff like this, but when it comes down to it, when you need a new electronic device and one's half the cost, which one do people buy?
The one with ads and that's made by slave wage third world workers, or the one that's twice as expensive?
As a whole, we tend to be garbage and materialistic...
I won't be buying Roku either.
Seems like your org has taken resilience and response planning seriously. I like it.