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IBM the Next Great Software Company?

Posted by Zonk on from the brave-new-world dept.

Diomidis Spinellis writes "A report in this week's Economist discusses IBM's globalization strategy and the company's presence in India. Refreshingly, the article admits that there's more to outsourcing than cheap labor, contrasting IBM's calculated investments with Apple's rapid pull-out from Bangalore. Although the jury is still out on how sluggish multinationals can compete with vigorous tigers, it seems that IBM has a credible strategy for becoming the next great software company, and that outsourcing is only a part of the puzzle."

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  1. "IBM" and "Great Softare" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Please never say "IBM" and "Great Software" in the same sentence. Notes, WebSphere, RSM, ClearCase, ClearQuest, ReqPro, etc. have all become horrifically aweful under IBM. IBM is a services company, not a software company.

    1. Re:"IBM" and "Great Softare" by superpulpsicle · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      There should be a rule that IBM should never acquire anybody ever again. Aside from that, this article is the most useless piece of marketing.

      They got the best *nix in AIX and they technologically don't know what to do with it. So they buy linux. And they barely know what to do with that.

  2. Oh please... by DrPeper · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    IBMs failures in Software creation and marketing that software read like a list of accomplishments of an alcoholic and a bartenders flair competition.

    PC Dos - Dead
    OS2 - Dead
    Pink - Dead before it was born.
    Tivoli - you hardly ever even see this anymore.

    I'm sure I'm missing quite a few others.

    Not to mention making and marketing PC's themselves. IBM was the first big player, now they don't make them anymore (sold it all to Lenovo).

  3. Software company? by matt+me · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Can anyone name any software IBM produce? I don't think I use any.

  4. Thjis FP forL GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    sad8ess And it was rea7 problems with the laundry very distracting to