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IBM's reputation is utterly nonsensical. I've worked for a company bought by IBM and for companies that used IBM's products/services and they've never been anything other than mediocre, sometimes outright bad, with costs that are astronomical.

My recommendation is that if you ever think about using an IBM product, hire a developer instead. You'll pay less money for a developer than you would pay for an IBM product, and after they're done implementing a the product better whatever unreliable enterprise clusterfuck IBM would shoehorn into your "solution", you have a developer who can work on other things.

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I reckon. I've set up the Rational Suite and FileNet. FileNet alone is worse than a raw Oracle DB. You'd write FileNet SQL, only to work around bugs they have in transforming their SQL to Oracle SQL. Any manager buying IBM software should be in jail for corruption and breach of fiduciary duty.

Rational Suite is the worse piece of crap I ever had the displeasure of using. Elephant sizes mounds of overpriced crap.

Whoever suggests using it should be fired on the spot.

If I see any mention of it on a person's CV (because I only mention what I am ok with), is enough for me to second-guess this person's ability

I'm so glad git is replacing it.

I've seen it firsthand several times, if you want a mess, call IBM.

The only "problem" with developers is they usually don't throw golf days for their best customers :)

From personal experience, CP Optimizer beats the crap out of other constraint solvers. Its API is... well, a bit rough, but it's incredibly fast and the support is top notch.

I can't really speak for other IBM products, but I suspect they generally align with your perception here.

Anybody who's been subjected to Lotus Notes is well-aware of the average quality of IBM software.

I found this headline kind of amazing because I was like, "reputation at risk? This has been my impression of their reputation for decades."

So they still have F5 in a Lotus emails to close the window and quit the app? Evilest thing I could imagine.

Killnotes.exe was good ibm software though

IBM is older, larger, and has better insurance.

Give me a product that works over any of those.

Like some FGT[0]s?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx0z9FjxP-Y

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