| I have the "honor" of getting to use IBM $PRODUCT at $COMPANY. - it uses some form of consensus algorithm between all nodes that somehow manages to randomly get the whole cluster into a non working state by simply existing, requiring manual reboots - Patches randomly introduce new features, often times with breaking changes to current behaviour - Patches tend to break random different things and even the patches for those patches often don't work - For some reason the process how to apply updates randomly changes between every couple of patches, making automation all but impossible - the support doesn't know how $PRODUCT works, which leads to us explaining to them how it actually does things - It is ridiculously expensive, both in hardware and licensing costs All of this has been going on for years without any signs of improvement for now, to the point that $COMPANY now avoids IBM if at all possible |