Israeli media outlets are reporting that IBM is laying off product developers at its Diligent operation but leaving support staff roles untouched. According to Israeli biz news site Calcalist, Diligent, XIV, and Storwize – all three Israeli companies acquired by Big Blue – were housed by the firm in the R&D division of its …

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Friday 14th February 2014 21:52 GMT Anonymous Coward

Good, most people don't want them to be funding this terrorist state in any way....

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1. Saturday 15th February 2014 00:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Have you ever considered a job as a diplomat?
  
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2. Sunday 16th February 2014 04:14 GMT CheesyTheClown
  
  Even if I agree...
  
  Are you suggesting that the developers are terrorists too or that they should be punished for guilt by proximity?
  
  P.S. Not that I agree
  
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  1. Monday 17th February 2014 08:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Re: Even if I agree...
    
    Well Israel is a big fan of collective punishment of innocent civilians. What goes around comes around...
    
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Saturday 15th February 2014 17:42 GMT josh.krischer

To Anonymous Coward

The name fits you. Maybe Ignorant Anonymous Coward fits you better.

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1. Monday 17th February 2014 08:14 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: To Anonymous Coward
  
  And maybe Genocide and State Terrorism Apologist better fits you?
  
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Sunday 16th February 2014 04:17 GMT CheesyTheClown

Ahh business!

Buy a foreign company... Progressively move the technology and products to your main location, then fire everyone who made it to begin with.

Are we forgetting the next step? Disgruntled ex-employees use this as an opportunity to develop a better product, a transitioning tool and and leave you supporting only your die hard customers?

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Sunday 16th February 2014 10:50 GMT ITdinosaur

Diligent as a software company were superb - ProtecTier was great, Then IBM bought them and it all went down hill from there - their gateway clustered solution was pants ... hardly clustered (all in the same rack by design/insistence of IBM), support was poor and it was beaten by the competition.

I hope all the ex Diligent folks find new jobs working for another visionary company.

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Monday 17th February 2014 10:15 GMT RTFM_UK

Pink Slips?

I am just going to miss the point and focus on something trivial - Pink slips? Really? Are we in the US now? You'll next be saying they should have expected this from the 'get go'.....

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1. Monday 17th February 2014 10:16 GMT gazthejourno
  
  Re: Pink Slips?
  
  The Reg is an international publication, so sometimes we do have to stoop to the Yanks' level... next time we'll call it a P45, just for you.
  
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2. Monday 17th February 2014 14:57 GMT geek49203
  
  Re: Pink Slips?
  
  IBM is a Yank company. Ergo, the appropriate term is the Yank term.
  
  When we talk F1, we'll use the term "Tyres" even though we know not "y" here in the 'States.
  
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Monday 17th February 2014 12:08 GMT RTFM_UK

Aww - most kind of you Sir. Anything to uphold England in the modern world, even though many are trying to dumb us (and our language) down.......

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Tuesday 18th February 2014 15:58 GMT Anonymous Coward

Hmmm.. 140,000 people (mostly civilians) killed in Syria over past 3 years with tens getting killed every day. Scores of Egyptians killed by their own police. God knows what goes on in North Korea. Homosexuals being hung in Iran routinely. Wives/daughters being killed to preserve family honor in many Moslam countries.

And yet, Israel is always the biggest evil in the world.

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