my employer has got a difficult relationship with ibm. we meet them in every single rfp we answer, yet we are a big customer and preffered reseller. i think imb sais it best when saying:
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IBM has a complex relation with PinkRoccade. For example,the two companies also work together with the PinkRoccade marketing units. They collaborate to interest specific professions in the infrastructure that MegaplexPinkRoccade Infrastructure Services has in house,combined with the system development a marketing unit can offer. IBM and PinkRoccade also compete with one another on a regular basis [...]