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		saberience 23 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM to acquire Confluent IBM is a consulting business, not a software business. Their software sucks, and every actual software engineer knows it. IBM has a business selling to big, old, backwards enterprise businesses who wouldn't know good software from literal pieces of faeces.

otterley 23 days ago [–]

That's not entirely true. Db2, for example, is a well-respected database.

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