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Big Blue's Software Spending Spree
abb_road writes "IBM has gone on an aggressive acquisitions spree for document management packages in the past three weeks, spending more than $2 billion to pick up two companies. The companies, Webify and FileNet, are expected to become part of IBM's Information on Demand strategy. The acquisitions point to a larger industry trend: a focus on software for unified corporate data management. From the article: 'It's a crucial time to jockey for most-valuable-software-provider status, because companies want to buy more from fewer players, and they're tired of buying stand-alone pieces of software like customer-relationship management that don't fix real-world business problems. The new message to software vendors: Fix my call centers, don't just sell me a product. As a result, the lines are starting to blur between software companies that offer, say, Internet security, databases, and tools to manage nearly every part of the business. So, too, are the lines between service companies and software companies.'"
0.086 thousands of years, to be precise?
You neglected to factor in what a user once described to me as 'IT Time'. IT Time is when a tech tells a user, "I'll be back in 10 minutes.". That 10 minutes will actually be a minimum of several hours to a maximum of two weeks, at which time the tech flags the item in his queue as completed and then takes a 3 hour lunch break.
I'll let you do the math.
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