IBM buys SPSS for $1.2bn
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:59 pm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/28/ibm_buys_spss/
<groan>Another integration exercise</groan>
<groan>Another integration exercise</groan>
On the sadistic entertainment side, I get to watch several people I know who use SPSS have to go through getting ICN's and then have to deal with the dog's breakfast that is the IBM web site.David Usherwood wrote:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/28/ibm_buys_spss/
<groan>Another integration exercise</groan>
Post integration, some poor SPSS user queries "SPSS Software Support Matrix". The brain dead "search engine", if one may glorify it with such a term, will return:
"This IBM Redbook discusses the high availability aspects of IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6 ..."
OK, so that's actually a TM1 example. That's AFTER I'd selected TM1 as the software that I wanted to search against from the drop-downs. No, the article returned doesn't actually contain TM1 anywhere in it, but it did contain the word "software" and near enough should be good enough. Welcome to IBM, SPSSers!