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> Personally I won't buy an IBM product because I know it's just like Oracle: software entrapment.

Nobody buys IBM or Oracle products, they become 'partners' and negotiate license agreements. The entrapment is different in that your software (and hardware!) decisions now involve lawyers.

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> Nobody buys IBM or Oracle products, they become 'partners' and negotiate license agreements.

A former employer bought IBM licenses without partnership. Boy, IBM software is lousy. :-/

Many of the extremely large east coast customers have directives to move away from licenses as fast as they can. The recent news of IBM's protest against Amazon is very related to this acquisition.

http://washingtontechnology.com/Articles/2013/05/31/amazon-p...

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