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dade_
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Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing...
There is some missing math. They likely have 30 or 40 payroll systems all up for renewal/replacement. The old systems are probably loaded with features and forgotten requirements that would have been discovered during deployment.
pixl97
on March 1, 2018
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Govt.office "We need to open these X year old databases/files for tax purposes once a year"
Programmer.ibm "What the hell format is this?!"
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