Bridgestone Sues IBM For $600 Million Over Allegedly ‘Defective’ System That Plunged The Company Into ‘Chaos’

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Tire company Bridgestone has slapped IBM with a huge lawsuit over a custom-built computer system that performed so poorly, it threw Bridgestone’s “entire business operation into chaos,” the suit alleges, as reported by the Tennessean.

The system cost over $75 million and went live in January, 2012. It immediately experienced “system-wide failures” for three months, Bridgestone alleges:

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