Comment by wredue
3 years ago
It’s a little especially strange as IBM hasn’t exactly made a great reputation for themselves over the last several years. Name dropping IBM makes me think that the reserve is generally not confident and is ready to blame IBM for what they expect to happen.
IBM MQ has been the standard for message queues for literal decades.
Hitching a horse to a different technology platform that has only been around for a few years to complete a project that should last for many more decades would be an architectural choice that would only lead to high costs and high risk of major changes in the future and puts the whole system at risk.
More likely, everyone in charge of this project on the government side is over 55 and still think of IBM as a signal of quality and reliability.
There is a huge variation in "quality" across IBM's product line. There are still a few sectors where they are legitimately top-tier competitors, and there are others where they're a joke.
Half the banking sector runs on IBM and has been running on IBM for decades. They know the domain well and have legitimate credibility for being reliable. It's not comparable to some of their other markets.
Wasted opportunity though. The ECB is adopting Kafka. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/ecb.prototype_summar...
Kafka is not the same of MQ.