ub-ba.de – how did we arrive at this name?

When we discussed about a potential name for a blog dealing with outsourcing deals, training, and coaching, we just heard the announcement that the new name of the company merged from CSC and HP-ES would be DXC-technology. Well, as we all know, DXC is the Roman number of 590, and this stuck.
Further, this is a reference to Nate Silver (The Signal and the Noise) and his website fivethirtyeight.com (http://fivethirtyeight.com). For all of us in the IT-Industry, Big Data and Analytics are important to understand and to get it right. His book is a very useful guide into this area.