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The world runs on them but so far isn’t willing to pay for the skills. It also resigns you to the world of legacy code and tech debt. The person who has to ask for budget to fix problems from 30 years ago is very under appreciated. (“What new functionality am I getting for all that money?”)

IBM is also a very painful vendor. They’re in the audit and share buyback business. They struggle to innovate. (One can argue with their track record on innovation they really should just milk the existing contracts and buy back shares)



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