It's only been three days? I think that's a bit quick and unfair to go to the media and complain.
IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources
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Re: IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources
#32Re: IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources
#33Should’ve just paid Microsoft to transition to Office 365. Leave the technology work to tech companies, stick to core competencies.
Not sure if you’re sarcastic or not, but my company (enterprise size) has migrated from self hosted Exchange + network file shares + GitLab + Jenkins + Artifactory + 1000 other things to Office 365 + Azure and it’s been great. Probably took a lot more effort than what I notice as an end user…but I do get the impression that Microsoft is pretty good in enterprise productivity…
Office365 as a platform appears to suffer from terrible unreliability. My last role was in a google apps shop, and i miss it every single day. (it's been 3 years).
Re: IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure if you’re sarcastic or not, but my company (enterprise size) has migrated from self hosted Exchange + network file shares + GitLab + Jenkins + Artifactory + 1000 other things to Office 365 + Azure and it’s been great. Probably took a lot more effort than what I notice as an end user…but I do get the impression that Microsoft is pretty good in enterprise productivity…
Office365 as a platform appears to suffer from terrible unreliability. My last role was in a google apps shop, and i miss it every single day. (it's been 3 years).
This is my experience as well since the BPoS days…
Not that it matters. Companies on the Microsoft stack just tolerate the outages so they can keep using Microsoft for everything.
Re: IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources
#35Re: IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ha! I saw a very big multinational F500 company completely reorganize its AD, because users were unable to login to Office 365 with their standard accounts user@ .company.com. After weeks of complete disasters the company decided to switch to user@company.com just for O365. It's a hard life as microserf.
That makes more sense anyway. Why should your individual identity be hardwired to your current location or department? If you changed jobs within the company you had to get a new email address and login?
My guess would be that's just their login, but their email would not have their location sub-domain (I've never seen a sub-domain in e-mail, well actually not true, people with domain + country TLDs all have it, e.g. clarkson@bbc.co.uk).
Of course moving locations/departments would mean getting a new login which is all sorts of problematic.
Re: IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources
#37So just the usual standard of IBM work I suppose?
At least they maintain the reputation: nobody ever got fired for buying IBM because the termination email didn't come through.
Re: IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources
#38Can't imagine hiring IBM to manage any software project if they can't even work their own email.
They support their AS400 line. No one else in the market. This plus some companies they bought (e.g. redhat) is all that IBM is left as today.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure if you’re sarcastic or not, but my company (enterprise size) has migrated from self hosted Exchange + network file shares + GitLab + Jenkins + Artifactory + 1000 other things to Office 365 + Azure and it’s been great. Probably took a lot more effort than what I notice as an end user…but I do get the impression that Microsoft is pretty good in enterprise productivity…
Office365 as a platform appears to suffer from terrible unreliability. My last role was in a google apps shop, and i miss it every single day. (it's been 3 years).
I call it Office361 because it goes down at least 4 days a year.
Re: IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources
#40Can't imagine hiring IBM to manage any software project if they can't even work their own email.
Rather, I would not buy a software product from them or accept any project that depended on one since they eventually will sell it to some smaller company to dump it, apparently even when they still need it themselves.
Reminds me of this recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517846