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by NikolaeVarius 1623 days ago
I have my problems with this statement mostly because IBM actually does suck. The amount of products its bought and promptly did a full thrust crash into the ground are many. AWS has its problems but 99.99999% of the time the "core" products perfectly fine, I dont know about its multitude of side-hustles though.
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I think you're missing the context that the adage "nobody gets fired for buying IBM" dates back to the 1970s at least. It's not meant to refer to IBM as it is now, but rather to IBM as it was then, an industrial behemoth with a near monopoly on business machines, some of which happened to be general purpose computers.
IBM used to be good