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by Deprecate9151 916 days ago
I was at a company where that exec won. In this case it was the Infosphere suite to replace a fully mature Informatica/Teradata environment and fix all the "issues". Obviously the issues were all design and management, not technical.

3 years a tens of millions later the whole project is shut down with no value delivered except a single data store and a couple API endpoints. That exec went back to his IBM sales job.

Last I heard they were still paying for and maintaining all of it because that endpoint was used in a key product offering.

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This is like one of those "horror stories in 2 sentences" type things.