Comment Re:IBM cut numbers savagely in Oz (Score 1) 156
Just an abridged version of my experiences with IBM in Australia....
A company I worked for in the mid 2000's supplied a custom solution for one of Australia's large banks. Unfortunately, the bank also also used IBM to supply some of the infrastructure and support to get to our data centres. In the first year, we had 3-4 major outages which IBM every time blamed the company I worked for of the outage and every time we were able to show it was a problem on the IBM side. It got so bad that when ever IBM blamed the company I worked for of a problem or outage, the bank started to demand that IBM back up their claims before they would believe them.
My company ended up looking great, IBM not so good. I heard that not long after I had gone to work for anything company, the bank ended up dropping the IBM side of things and went with someone else.