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IBM to acquire Confluent

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443 points abd12 | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 13:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.265s | source
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theta_d ◴[08 Dec 25 15:07 UTC] No.46193066[source]▶
I worked for IBM Cloud about 6+ years ago. While there, we had to connect to a Softlayer VPN to get into our Jira instance. My VPN account and Jira account never got provisioned so I couldn't connect nor see the Jira board. My team-mates couldn't even assign a ticket to me b/c of this. They would just put my initial's in the ticket summary and send me a slack of the details.

It was right before I left that we got our own Jira instance. This was all around the time of the Red Hat acquisition. I remember the announcement b/c we used SuSE for everything IIRC.

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askafriend ◴[08 Dec 25 15:42 UTC] No.46193552[source]▶
Why didn't you ask to get the accounts provisioned?
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1. Zigurd ◴[08 Dec 25 17:14 UTC] No.46194872[source]▶
On consulting engagements, 0% of the time are Jira and git provisioned correctly for an outside consultant. I used to be appalled at being paid for two or three days of waiting for the IT guy to fix this. Now I use the time to find cleaning supplies and deep clean my cubicle and chair. People do look at me funny, but I feel better not just sitting there reading.