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Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] shalafi 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Our tech leans heavily on AS400s, if you can believe that. And we have 98% market share in our space. They're complex, but they work, and don't fail.

[โ€“] mesamunefire 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I worked with that and COBOL lol. I'll never be without a job I guess.

DB2 isn't terrible tbh but of course I want to use something like postgres if I had the choice.