<story><title>Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled global trade platform</title><url>https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/11/29/maersk-and-ibm-to-discontinue-tradelens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snapcaster</author><text></text></item><item><author>oxfordmale</author><text>...and if IBM says it is 40%, it is definitely true. Just as IBM Watson is going to be the future of healthcare. Unfortunately, that future seems to consist of scrapping IBM Watson and selling it for parts &amp;#x2F;sarcasm</text></item><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>How can that be? By putting paper work in the blockchain they managed to cut shipping times by 40%!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;tech-industry&amp;#x2F;ibm-maersk-tradelens-blockchain-alliance-cuts-shipping-times-40-percent&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;tech-industry&amp;#x2F;ibm-maersk-tradelens...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though I believe the blockchain has always been hidden behind an API hosted by IBM (access to those who got approved and paid a fee), blockchain was an implementation&amp;#x2F;marketing detail and the whole thing could have been done with Sybase&amp;#x2F;MDB etc.  If they had promoted this as a standard&amp;#x2F;open way of describing shipping data it might have been beneficial.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>HN is &lt;i&gt;terrible&lt;/i&gt; at interpreting sarcasm or jokes, partly because people will say the most extraordinary things with apparent sincerity.</text></comment>
<story><title>Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled global trade platform</title><url>https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/11/29/maersk-and-ibm-to-discontinue-tradelens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snapcaster</author><text></text></item><item><author>oxfordmale</author><text>...and if IBM says it is 40%, it is definitely true. Just as IBM Watson is going to be the future of healthcare. Unfortunately, that future seems to consist of scrapping IBM Watson and selling it for parts &amp;#x2F;sarcasm</text></item><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>How can that be? By putting paper work in the blockchain they managed to cut shipping times by 40%!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;tech-industry&amp;#x2F;ibm-maersk-tradelens-blockchain-alliance-cuts-shipping-times-40-percent&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;tech-industry&amp;#x2F;ibm-maersk-tradelens...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though I believe the blockchain has always been hidden behind an API hosted by IBM (access to those who got approved and paid a fee), blockchain was an implementation&amp;#x2F;marketing detail and the whole thing could have been done with Sybase&amp;#x2F;MDB etc.  If they had promoted this as a standard&amp;#x2F;open way of describing shipping data it might have been beneficial.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JasonFruit</author><text>Please stop using the phrase &amp;quot;extremely cringe&amp;quot;, and you will immediately be better at writing.</text></comment>