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GNU Based on 6 reviews.	IBM Based on 1232 reviews.
Overview
GNU i The combination of GNU software and the Linux kernel is commonly known as Linux. Development of the GNU operating system was initiated by Richard Stallman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as a project called the GNU Project which was publicly announced on September 27, 1983, on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups by Richard Stallman.	International Business Machines Corporation is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware, middleware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company through a merger of the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company.
Sample Customers
	IBM Rational Build Forge: Cars.com IBM Rational ClearQuest: Atos SE, STM, Regence BlueCross BlueShield IBM Rational Software Analyzer: SIBRA GmbH, IKB IBM Cognos: More than 23,000 leading organizations across multiple industries use Cognos. Some examples of Cognos customers include BMW Financial Services, Quinte Health Care, Troy Corporation, Michigan State University, and GKN Land System.
Popular Solutions
GNU Make 2 reviews	IBM MQ 78 reviews IBM Spectrum Protect 66 reviews IBM QRadar 57 reviews
Top Comparisons
Jenkins vs. GNU Make Compared 72% of the time. GNU DDD vs. GDB Compared 69% of the time. GDB vs. GNU DDD Compared 87% of the time.	Tableau vs. IBM Cognos Compared 25% of the time. IBM Rational ClearCase vs. IBM Rational ClearQuest Compared 52% of the time. Jenkins vs. IBM Rational Build Forge Compared 82% of the time.
Top Industries
No Data Available	Financial Services Firm 26% Comms Service Provider 8% Manufacturing Company 6% Marketing Services Firm 6%

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Most Helpful Reviews

Alexander Melnyk
Software Engineer at a tech vendor
How has it helped my organization?: GNU Make is such an essential tool that it is almost impossible to imagine...
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Anonymous User
AVP & Director at a financial services firm
What is most valuable?: It's actually helped us standardize our content ingestion piece. We receive anywhere from...
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Anonymous User
Head Of Culture & Engagement at a financial services firm
What is most valuable?: We chose Kenexa for a number of reasons. One was because of the science that sits behind...
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SecAnalyst3477
Security Analyst at a insurance company
What is most valuable?: Ease of use and robust automated security administration and reporting are features any...
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Anonymous User
Marketing Administrator and Member Web Support at a financial services firm
What is most valuable?: Valuable features include creating and using defined templates with logos, and the ease of...
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Balan R
Manager-Projects,Data Analyst & DBA at a tech services company
What is most valuable?: Currently, we are using Netezza to the utmost. We first used it for our data warehouse....
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Customer Service

Alexander Melnyk
Software Engineer at a tech vendor
There is no technical support. As with all GNU software, GNU Make is distributed "as-is" with no warranty and no...
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Michael Savisko
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company
There’s no support for this product, it’s open source.
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Alex Karnovsky
CEO at DrAlex Software
Customer Service: Customer service is mediocre. Technical Support: Technical support is mediocre.
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Jonathan Mc Knight
Business Intelligence Manager at Mspark
Customer Service: Customer service has always been responsive and helpful, and most of our tickets have been resolved...
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Rekha Chotara
IT Analyst at a tech services company
Customer Service: Customer service is excellent. It has 24/7 customer support. Technical Support: Technical support...
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Suganya Rane
Senior Principal Integration Architect at Sabre
I usually deal with level three support and they're pretty awesome; so, they're very good. I rate them 5/5.
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Youssef Boukari
IT Security Manager at a tech services company
Customer Service: Customer service is very good. Technical Support: Technical support is excellent.
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Lowell Fultz
Enterprise Automation Engineer
Let us be honest: It is IBM. They may not have invented arrogant, but they perfected it. If you make it clear that...
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Otto Foerg
Digital Workplace & Collaboration Consultant at a tech services company
Technical support is good, but could be better, as always.
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Gill Staniland
Data Strategist at a tech services company
The availability of the new Cognos Analytics community allows for global sharing of problem resolutions. As this...
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Victor Toal
Chief Solutions Architect at a tech consulting company
Technical support is hit-and-miss. In general, the support staff is willing, but there is a large range of...
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Saumya Chopra
Talent Systems and Operations Analyst at a tech company
Technical support is required for configurations but integrations with other tools would need a technical resource....
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Shuchita Tripathi
Senior Analyst at a healthcare company
Excellent. You always get the proper response.
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Anup Varma
IBM BPM | Front end Engineering | MonogoDB | Angular | Node.js at a tech services company
I would give them a seven out of 10. The organization that I'm associated with is an IBM partner, so we have priority...
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Anonymous User
Founder & President at a consultancy
Customer Service: 9/10 Technical Support: 10/10
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Anonymous User
IT Security Analyst Senior at a tech services company
Technical support is exceptional.
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Anonymous User
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm
They're knowledgeable and responsive.
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Anonymous User
Architect at a tech vendor
There is a very good support from IBM on this portfolio and it's a well-understood portfolio. It is a well-understood...
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Anonymous User
Sales Specialist
Technical support is 8/10.
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Anonymous User
Lead Storage Administrator at a government
The technical support has been really good for both Spectrum Protect and IBM Storage. The support team has very...
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SrCognosBIDev517
Sr Cognos BI Developer at a university
Sometimes technical support can be hit and miss. However, IBM has some very good technicians.
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Jeff Banks
Director at LFL Corp
We would rate technical support fairly high; seven or eight, nine, out of ten.
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Anonymous User
Database Administrator at a healthcare company
Technical support has been pretty good. Maybe sometimes we don't get responses back as fast as we would like, but...
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DataWarehouseMgr798
Data Warehouse Manager at a university
I would rate the technical support at about 5/10. We continue to struggle with IBM provided first or second time...
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Anonymous User
Technical Lead at a tech services company
I would give technical support a rating of 4/5.
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Richard Rijnders
Systems architect at Firstsys
Their technical support is very good. Most of the time that I've had any issues, I would get an answer within an hour.
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Anonymous User
Unit Manager at a insurance company
We are doing our solutions in-house, but sometimes we require local support from IBM partners, but not too often. We...
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Anonymous User
Manager of Online Web Services Team at a financial services firm
Customer Service: Very good. Technical Support: It depends on who you get. Some Level One technicians are better than...
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Anonymous User
Engineer at a financial services firm
I usually do not deal with them. The Level 2 personnel talk with them. We have our contract with IBM, so we call them...
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Anonymous User
Technical Lead at a tech services company
Customer Service: 8/10. Technical Support: 8/10.
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Anonymous User
Senior Hadoop Engineer
Customer Service: Great, 8/10. Technical Support: Great, 8/10.
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Anonymous User
Senior Manager of Infrastructure at a retailer
Technical support is OK.
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