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eastbound on Dec 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Software horror show: SAP Concur

That’s for the golf course. Same as IBM: The business model is they mostly sell golf courses, and software is a side-effect so they have to save on that.

skrebbel on Dec 5, 2022 [–]

Are you just making stuff up?

eastbound on Dec 5, 2022 | [–]

I was sysadmin for IBM software in a 50k-people company, there is no way they paid 12m$ for ClearQuest, ClearCase or RequisitePro when Git and Jira were already out. They clearly played golf to win this market.

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