[organsnyder]

That's how they were used at my last employer. Yes, their OpenShift platform is very good, and they have a lot of good products in their ecosystem, but the biggest value they provided was a vendor to blame if things went south.

Maybe Red Hat and IBM aren't as different as we like to think.

[freehunter]

Exactly. The best reason to hire IBM is so you have a company who is big enough to sue when something goes wrong.

[raverbashing]

Funnily enough, nobody sues IBM when their product is an obscenely expensive barely functional mount of manure

Even more funny, those who propose the acquisitions of said tools are not held responsible when things go south for their complete inadequacy for their job.

[dragandj]

And even more funny would be to find someone who has enough power to sue IBM, which probably has more lawyers in its legal department than the plaintiff has total employees.

[organsnyder]

"No one ever got fired for buying IBM."

[Angostura]

See also "a single throat to choke"