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		reitanqild on July 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality c... licenses weren't renewed, it got sheepishly powered down after a few months to save electricity [...] About £200k of expenditure down the pan. I guess you could easily lost even more money. Good thing they stopped it at £200k.

staofbur on July 14, 2017 [–]

Yeah a big chunk of that was consultancy, support, Oracle licenses. TCO was going to be around £500k for 5 years.

The whole platform got replaced with SQL Server on a clone PC server in the end which cost less than £10k. No fan of Microsoft but there was no competition. And the tooling was far better!

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