What is the most incompetent tech company that is somehow staying afloat?
>>53539669
Microsoft. Tons of poorly designed products written by curry coders.
AMD
Oracle. You report a security issue with OracleSQL here's what will happen:
1) Sue you
2) Lose the suit
3) Fix the issue in a release 2-4 years later
4) Fix only that issue, what if a UTF-8 character is identical in like Low German? Who gives a shit file a different ticket.
>>53539669
Oracle, no contest.
They make all their money these days being patent trolls.
>>53539718
They're very competent
No other tech company thought of "secure business relations and baby duck syndrome first, make good software later" (where later is the current year + 1, kind of like the linux desktop)
Apple tried to make good software and then sell it. NeXTstep tried to make good software and then sell it. Everyone kept trying that! Amateurs. Microsoft slapped some shit on top of CP/M, and then sent their sales force out and about to ensure that every child would grow up learning to use microsoft, that every school assignment would be in a microsoft-only format, and that businesses would adopt microsoft now and have to stay with microsoft later or else nothing else would be able to read their data.
>>53539669
> SAP
> Oracle
> Canonical
IBM
JUST
>>53539669
Oracle
cisco
>>53539883
>Apple tried to make good software and then sell it.
more like
>Apple tried to buy the software made by NeXTstep and sell it.
>>53539883
> businesses would adopt microsoft
But they didn't. Except for client PCs, because office workers are used to it. Not saying every server is a Linux server, but Windows share in serious computing is hilariously small.
>>53539882
>patent trolls
I fucking hate this term.
does RadioShack count? I still don't understand how they're staying afloat. I guess those rumors of being a mafia laundering front may be true
>>53539669
Yahoo
Microsoft
Sega
Apple
>>53539669
JUST
>>53540087
It's almost like serious computing is not their target market
>>53539669
Not necessarily /g/ related but Valve and Riot Games, both sitting on fat stacks of money yet show massive levels of incompetence.
>>53540087
>Except for client PCs
But windows clients result in AD servers, exchange servers, servers for terminal services, then for a lot of businesses if you are so invested in MS why wouldn't you run IIS and mssql etc etc
What do you mean by serious computing?
AMD
>>53540297
> why wouldn't you run IIS and mssql etc etc
Because it would be actually harder to set up a high-availability platform on IIS. Not impossible, but you'll need a decent MS admin and expensive MS software. You'll need only a decent admin for the opensource solution.
>>53540430
>but you'll need a decent MS admin
In theory you already have one to look after the other windows servers I listed
4chan LLC
>>53540297
m-m-muh supercomputers!
>>53539669
Adobe, and only because no one is trying to challenge them
>>53540474
> you already have one to look after the other windows server
Yes, but how good is he? Everybody can create AD accounts for users, it's, like, monkey-tier job. It takes more knowledge to create a failover cluster with replication and stuff.
AMD
>>53539669
IBM, Adobe, and Oracle
>>53540109
It is a fair term, however I'd argue IBM is worse the Oracle for it.
>>53540714
It's totally hypothetical but it's probably cheaper to hire 1 semi competent guy to do your stuff than it is to employ 2 guys to do the same similar kind of job, one of whom is probably an insufferable weeboo neckbeard.
The point is the original poster said MS was only popular on the desktop for business which is crazy to suggest.
>>53540011
Poughkeepsie?>>53540011
Linus Media Group LLC
>>53539882
You forgot this deleted gem from their Chief Security Officer, gross incompetence all around.
http://pastebin.com/urN8Vyv1
>>53539669
>>53541158
kek'd
>>53540809
>Adobe
You fell for the meme.
>>53539669
>pic
whats this guys name again? spatry? hes like a fucking 12 year old just because he uses linux hes such a cuck about it and its really annoying.
Linux
>>53541297
Show a little respect, he died a week ago.
Apple.
Since 2011 they've been making trash that only still sells because of the Apple brand. Also, all of their coders now are awful.
>>53540932
>tech company
>>53541437
srsly?
>>53540156
>does RadioShack count? I still don't understand how they're staying afloat. I guess those rumors of being a mafia laundering front may be true
I don't honestly know how they stayed afloat when before the internet. I'd never been in a RS that you could browse shelves or had a friendly crew. the stores were also always very dark and unwelcoming
ask.com bullshit
>>53540162
>Sega
Sega Sammy makes gambling machines. They're the largest maker of them in Japan. If they were to completely axe the vidya department I doubt they'd even notice.
Now Konami on the other hand...
>>53539894
>SAP
>incompetent
nice meme
>>53541536
Yeah there was threads about it last week
Microsoft. It's truly legacy software of third parties that's currently saving them.
Yahoo. It's currently a walking corpse.
This >>53539718
The past decade or so has been a string of wannabe, catch-up products, and wtf things. If not for their stronghold with core items as the OS and office suite, they'd have been gone long ago.
They are starting to redeem themselves though.
>>53540885
> it's probably cheaper to hire 1 semi competent guy to do your stuff than it is to employ 2 guys to do the same similar kind of job
The only concern if anybody of them can do the job.
> same similar
Nope. Big uptime costs big money.
>>53540985
This is what you get for using a proprietary product (i.e. Oracle). She is right and if people think she is wrong, well... The law is on her side.
>>53540985
I keked
>>53541536
No he didn't. His jewtube name is Spatry.
>>53540985
>Customer Finds Exploit
>Threaten Legal Action with TOS
top kek
also:
>Oh, and we require customers/consultants to destroy the results of such reverse engineering and confirm they have done so.
Yeah, i'm so absolutely sure this works out like you intend. I'm sure no disgruntled engineer has ever sold that exploit to Ivan because you fags not only ignored him but berated him for his efforts.
>>53539669
they don't even make their drives. The drives we just bought at the apple repair shop I work at literally have seagate sticker on top of the toshiba manufacture label.
>>53540290
I'd say Valve is competent enough because Valve keeps coming up with new ways to make money out of thin air
Riot Games is basically a drug dealer of gaming
G-Data, Kaspersky, Norton.
>>53541472
ugh, tiger 10.4 a best
IBM
SAP
>>53541537
Well they pulled a Google -> Alphabet holding company thing, and now Sprint is partnered with the holding company.
So, they let sprint make use of their stores in return for life support.
>>53539669
>>53540163
:^)
>>53539669
Microsoft :)
>>53540011
This. Most of the good things to come out of IBM recently are from companies they acquired, nothing they did in-house.
I'm not sure there's a single IBM tech-based product (DB2, WebSphere, Softlayer, etc) that isn't a complete pile of shit.
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>>53541437
>>53541536
No he didnt lol.
Hes fine, he just returned from a 10 month break doing fuckknowswhat but hes back making videos again.
>>53540011
I don't know how they do it.
Keep buying companies and getting all the talent to quit.
>>53539718
/thread
>>53546260
Kingston used to be really good though, right?
>>53546385
No
