The Return Of The Buy IBM Theory

from the nobody-ever-gets-fired dept

The old phrase "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", is becoming fashionable again as companies are worried about giving big important deals to startups that might not be in existence next week. It's funny because a year or two ago, people used to make fun of that phrase and say that all those people who bought IBM were going out of business as the startups ran circles around them. I guess those people are the ones hanging out at the pink slip parties these days.