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		selcuka 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM to acquire Confluent I worked with IBM several decades ago for a customer project, and the solution suggested by an IBM'er for backing up a NoSQL database (Lotus Notes) on a daily basis was to translate and migrate the data to a relational one (DB2), then use a DB2 tape backup system to back it up. When I pointed out that this was a stupid way to do it, they openly told me that they just wanted to sell DB2.

raverbashing 2 days ago | [–]

It's not stupid when you can bill for $1Mi instead of $100k ;)

rf15 3 days ago | [–]

at least they are honest? Also "thanks for the tape backup idea anyway"

selcuka 3 days ago | [–]

Tape backups were the norm back then.

They were only honest because I was working for an IBM Business Partner. They wouldn't disclose it to the customer.

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