The GSIS/IBM Scandal
Signs of the times..
- GSIS had an old version of DB2, with tables that have a maximum capacity of 256 GB. That’s roughly 731 episodes of House from torrents. Or 320 copies of Angels & Demons. Or 64,000 mp3 copies of Careless Whisper. They bought it from IBM years ago.
- GSIS needed the new spanking version of DB2, with each table having a capacity of 512 exabytes. That’s roughly 1,463,000,000,000 episodes of House! Or 128,000,000,000,000 copies of Careless Whisper. You can play with lightballs for the next 70 years!
- GSIS hires Questronix, to figure out how to manage its 128 gazillion copies of Careless Whisper. Questronix uses an application called SAP to do this. SAP, in turn, uses DB2 to hold its data. IBM claims not to know anything about it.
- Unfortunately, new spanking version of DB2 goes pfft. Instead of 128,000,000,000 Careless Whispers, it goes down to only 2 terabytes, or only 500,000 copies of Careless Whisper! Worse, it can only handle 5,714 episodes of House. GSIS gets mad!
- GSIS asks Questronix and the guys who made SAP what’s wrong. Questronix and SAP point fingers at IBM. IBM facepalms — because it wasn’t directly involved with Questronix’s project.
(from “GSIS vs. IBM : Accusations fly as a cup overfloweth” by Jon Limjap / Photo credits.)
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2 years ago