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You know something I am surprised isn't being brought up is the failed Accenture infrastructure rebuild

https://www.theregister.com/2019/04/23/hertz_accenture_lawsu...

not so much the money aspect of this, but instead worth knowing that Hertz had massively eol ready digital infrastructure in need of being replaced.

One has to wonder if this failure created a disruption to business cadence that put them in a particularly weakened state facing these times.

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One wonders why any of these big companies hire consultants like Accenture. It's basically giving them a license to steal. They would probably be better off finding a scrappy startup trying to compete with them with technology and copying their modern systems, spending their efforts in write code to migrate data from the legacy systems to the modern ones.