[brewdad]

More likely, everyone in charge of this project on the government side is over 55 and still think of IBM as a signal of quality and reliability.

[dralley]

There is a huge variation in "quality" across IBM's product line. There are still a few sectors where they are legitimately top-tier competitors, and there are others where they're a joke.

Half the banking sector runs on IBM and has been running on IBM for decades. They know the domain well and have legitimate credibility for being reliable. It's not comparable to some of their other markets.

[Nemo_bis]

Wasted opportunity though. The ECB is adopting Kafka. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/ecb.prototype_summar...

[wslh]

Kafka is not the same of MQ.