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IBM sues the Philippines
BIGGISH BLUE and the Philippine government are engaged in a handbag war in that country's courts after a government agency accused IBM of flogging faulty software.
According to the AP, it all started when the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) ran an advertising campaign claiming that IBM had sold it faulty software.
However Biggish Blue said that the software had come from a venture of three local firms with which IBM Philippines was not even involved.
IBM Philippines said the GSIS adverts in local newspapers "were not only false and misleading, but were motivated by ill will and malice." It is suing the island nation's government for $4.33 million for telling porkies.
The GSIS sued IBM Philippines over the alleged failure of its software and is demanding more than $2 million in damages and litigation expenses.
It is also suing the president of Questonix, which was the local outfit contracted to install the IBM database management software. µ
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been working with the Big Bullshit and I know they try to squeeze out faulty and unproductive Pentium 4 PC's and faulty software.It is already 2012 and they still want us to use those Lenovo Pentium 4 ThinkPads. LMFAO
@To all people who just knows IBM as a brand
you really dont know how the Big Blue Bullshit runs a business. Try to join the corporation and you'll see what i mean.
This whole fuzz has been a laughing stock in the IT industry simply because we understand these things... blaming the hammer used to construct your house when your house fell apart! My goodness, GSIS is so stupid! the limitation of db2 ver 9.1 is very much documented. overflow is always a possibility if the system is poorly designed.. or much worse, ill-maintained or even worse, not monitored at all!!!
get that anonymous?! i pretty well know you have no idea about databases and computer applications so stop making condescending remarks, idiot!
Ya IBM are the good guys. If you need money and going to sue someone: Go after a company that is always guilty of something...
Filipinos should know the game is to fine Microsoft and Intel. Really.
Philippines is a great place to visit and the people are friendlier than a very friendly thing, but corruption, bribery and political kickbacks are endemic. But then what can you expect when politicians routinely buy votes from the populace for 500 pesos a shot?
If the court case is held in a Philippine court I wouldn't give much for IBM's chances. Judges are easily bought.
@ronch: LOL! :P
IBM should sue the pants off those dirty shysters, close down all their operations in that country, and start a worldwide advertising campaign against business and vacation in the Philippines.
Pretty predictable what happened in this case. The guy at Questionix has collaborated with his best friend at GSIS to win the contract against much better bidders at a highly inflated price. Together they pocket the excess funds and go drinking and screwing whores at KTVs in Quezon City and don't do any proper work. Project falls apart, and to alleviate the heat on themsleves they blame IBM. Of course the fact that Questionix probably hadn't a clue how to actually use the software in the first place doesn't come into play. They thought they could just turn up at GSIS the morning after a night out in the KTVs, install it, and it would work. "Oh drat, it doesn't seem to work and we spent all the money on whores last night, what do we do now? Let's blame IBM, yeah!" Outcome of the case depends on which party has the most powerful friends in the judiciary.
@ manny: do you even know manny pacquiao? check your spelling asshole!
@ronch: read the whole story about the issue before making a comment idiot!
What the hell is a "Philippines"?
Why should the Phil. government run an advertising campaign that tries to hurt IBM's image? It's not only juvenile, but I'm sure it's shitfull of graft and corruption, maybe trying to make IBM hand them something under the table.
And in terms of graft and corruption, the Philippines is perhaps No. 1 or 2 in Asia. So IBM, just pull out of this country run by trolls.