IBM and the Philipines Battle in Court

Um the Philippines? This seems kind of funny considering I didn't know there was PCs in Manila. j/k.

IBM sued for 100 million Pesos
Philippines counter sued for $4.3 million (US?)


I wonder what the exchange rate is (Peso vs. US$)...or I would if I hadn't seen it in the other article: "The computer firm is demanding 205 million pesos (4.33 million US dollars) in damages and legal expenses."

You sue us we double dog sue you in return...Muhahhahahahah

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Was it that hard?

From what i read from the local news sites, it seems that the IBM's software had problems with large amounts of data. The local company that was mentioned in the article was affiliated with IBM, so its the contractor (Questonix) and the software company (IBM), and questonix said before that the IBM software was buggy and that IBM wasnt doing anything to fix it

now questonix is saying that the cause of the crashes was due to not using the best database practices

Shouldnt the software manufacturer be liable if it's software was not working as intended?

Hey IronRyan, up yours buddy. They have more computer parts readily available in the Philippines than you can find any crappy computer store here in the States. I built 4 computers while I was there, without the hassle of ordering from some damn website and waiting for my parts to arrive. So don't be a smart ass when you obviously don't now anything about another country.

Haha, this happens around early April when GSIS system failed, and since they cant blame themselves, they pointed fingers to Questronix and IBM.

Apparently, the Philippines would lose this one.



@IronRyan21
Yes we do have PCs here in Manila, and most of them can be better than yours.

LOL Just be thankful that your country is still getting in the news haha. No one cares about the poorest country in Asia anymore hahahaha.

@dougwhateva: obviously you don't know much about Asia. There are other countries worst off than the Philippines. At least get some info before you start talking out of your behind.

@IronRyan21: If there weren't computers in the Philippines, how'd all the 3gp scandals get uploaded?

100.000.000 pesos is $210.530US.
Now gets countersued by almost 20 fold!

Ha.

IBM is taking it way out of proportion.
Your software seems defunct... so just take care of the issue.

I think I want to take a acationin the Philippines now.

The problem is simple and 100% the fault of GSIS (Philippines).

Rather than divide their database into smaller tablespaces they got lazy and put everything into one tablespace. So now they have a 2TB tablespace full of tables with 16K page size.

Nobody in their right minds would do this and it's 16 times bigger than the maximum allowed for DB2. Now the junior DBA that set this up can't admit he screwed up and so he's trying to blame IBM. Suggest the idiot DBa reads the spec of the database before blaming others.

3rd world country, 3rd world training and 3rd world Database Administration.

where you get that and it seems plausible.
i think it is corruption in their government that allowed such low quality administrators.

"Um the Philippines? This seems kind of funny considering I didn't know there was PCs in Manila. j/k."

Ignorance is a bliss.

We usually get our hardware on the same date as you guys on US soil, and in some cases we get ours earlier than you do. i7, Phenom 2, DDR3, all were available roughly 1 to 2 weeks after launch. We could usually get things here cheaper, sometimes even cheaper than newegg, amazon, etc.

@dougwhateva = troll

GSIS would surely lose this one, their top brass should have just kept their mouth shut. I've seen these government projects wherein usually they play the blame game, but few have ever gone public and usually they resolve the situation. Questronix should be the one blamed in this scenario (unless of course if the GSIS and Questronix's management are very good buddies or even relatives, which is usually the case).

Sadly, TonyGordon is right.

It's just a simple case of pointing fingers at each other. Nothing will get solved......

Although I'd disagree on the last sentence. I'd revise it as such :

3rd World Country, First class training, first class laziness.... -_-

@TonyGordon - If your sources are reliable then that's probably the cause for all this hoopla. Furthermore, what can anyone expect from a government office in the Philippines? These offices tend to be somewhat technologically backwards in most cases.And the people working in them are probably jaded from the monotony of their routine jobs and low-paying salary.

You might want to rethink your last statement. Besides, who made up this whole 1st first world, 2nd world, 3rd world country business anyway? Probably the ones who live in the first world. No need to be condescending.

@IronRyan & dougwhateva: [sarcasm]I'm sure your ignorance speaks well of the countries you are from. [/sarcasm]

lolz

@IronRyan21
lol your so funny, it's really easy here buying PC parts and assembling it.. it's only like buying in candy store wahehe... also we got a place called gilmore where bunch of stores selling computer products and it's within metro manila...

anyway about the topic.. fcking GSIS, we know everytime something comes up it's our fault... damn my country.. oh my bad it's not my country it's our goverment T_T

i hope ibm wins this one... and i hope those politicians go to jail... but unfortunately, it's the people that will always carry the burden these political fools do in office...

Perhaps GSIS is in need of funding...hehehe

I'm an american living in the Philippines. This country is in last place for a reason. The people are the biggest bunch of idiots in the world. When you do run into a smart person here it's like finding a stream in West Texas. You wonder how the hell it got here.

Sounds awful... so, how in the world did you get there?

ceteras is in the Philippines because that "that biggest bunch of idiots" describes his attitude towards his ease with finding some desperate and poor lady who is a whole bunch cuter than any woman who'd tolerate his attention in the US and younger than is moral (or maybe even legal!) over here.

Obviously he's never been to Washington D.C. either.

Anyone who looks a the Intel cpu in their PC over the last 10 - 12 years was likely to see the sticker "Made in the Philippines" on it.

@james

don't you know that you could be a laughing stock here in the philippines? many would think that we filipinos are idiots because of being hospitable but in fact, your the one who's being fooled by other filipinos. why don't you look at your countrymen first and look how noob they are in many things before you look down on us...

There is nothing quite so likely to enrage people as an unflattering truth. I came to the P.I. almost 20 years ago. Alcoholism, cockfighting and karaoke vie for the national pastime. Most people are poor, uneducated and uneducatable. A small percentage are smart. Those are the ones that manage to come up in the world. The government is corrupt beyond belief. In that respect I believe it resembles the U.S. Our government is shit too. But honestly this country is a basket case.
Oh, and wayneepalmer you can take your pedo insinuation and stick it up your ass where it belongs. My gf is 19 and gorgeous. I'd take a bet she is better than any thing you have ever had. That's assuming you're not a pissed off man hating bull dyke as your post might suggest.

I find it rather funny that them's supposedly smarter first-world folks have to phone halfway across these here old world jus' to get some of them thar tackneekuhl s'port from these ignoran, brown thard worlders yah know???

Hey Kirk the Jerk

My wife is an ADULT Filipina who is my age and a lovely 47 years old, you child-molester.

You marry into a culture to get something you'd never get here for the exact reason most decent folks think so badly of Filipina's.

It is douche bag old perverted farts that go over there to molest girls like you that make things so much herder for the rest of us with Filipina wives over here.

harder - God how I hate child-molesters.

They make me so angry I can't even write straight.

I'm so darn sick of having to deal with hurt abused young girls in the Fil-Am community here who are married to some 50-year old who basically bought them as 18 or 19 year-old as sex-slaves / servants, who treat them and their families like garbage.

Your marriage is about your ego and your self-centeredness and not about her or any respect for who she is.

There are a lot of decent things about these people and their culture and personal virtues which you havent' even bothered to explore and they aren't your toys or your property. If you hate them so much, get out and leave them alone.

i wonder where's the exact location of james t kirk ...

If I may paraphrase Saturday night live. "Wayneepalmer you ignorant slut." Last time I checked 19 is legal. I'm sure if you had your way it would be against the law to have sex with any woman that was under 40 and not fat. And by the way I never said I hated the people. I'm just frequently frustrated by the number of people here that don't know a damn thing. And so many of them have a hard luck story and an out stretched hand. That gets old quick. Please don't pretend you live here or know anything about the culture. And don't pretend you're a man with a middle age wife. My guess is you are some fat old cow that no one wants so you are pissed to high heaven that a man can come here and have something young and beautiful. I first came here about 20 years ago as a young man in the military. I decided to come back in my 40's. And my gf and I are quite happy together. Thank you very much. I hope that makes you sleep well tonight you sexually frustrated old cow.