This.
Imagine you have, say, 80,000 employees, spread across 8 countries and 15 divisions, which are the result of 4 acquisitions over as many years.
You need "directory services" to work across all of this, but you've got Microsoft Active Directory, Oracle whatever-it's-called, etc., etc.
Enter OpenLDAP.
Don't forget IBM Tivoli. We used that for years.
Where is Watson now?
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But did you use all of these fine products? My god, I went looking for whatever they called their holy grail "information bus" product back in the day and got lost in this list. Crazy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IBM_products#Computer_software
