IBM the Next Great Software Company?

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 5, 2007 @05:54AM 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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Re:"IBM" and "Great Softare" by superpulpsicle · 2007-04-05 06:25 · 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.