Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B
As a Canadian who has worked at IBM, I&#x27;m not surprised that this didn&#x27;t find success. In IBMs defense, I don&#x27;t believe our public sector has the experience or aptitude required to act as a supporting interface for a job of this scale.<p>With that being said, IBM isn&#x27;t a successful technology company with a proven record building good software products. They were an unwise choice from the get-go. IBM is a successful financial engineering and sales firm that sells things, then scrambles to hire&#x2F;acquires to get things done to an ever-evolving, always justifiably rough spec. They quack and then start the hack-show.<p>What do you expect from the organization that invented &quot;FUD&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt</a>) as a way to emotionally manipulate perspective clients into making a purchasing decision?