IBM Software M&A: The Not-So-Hidden Agenda
The full impact of IBM's recent acquisitions won't be felt for sometime, but there's a quick analysis worth making about Big Blue's appetite for acquiriing enterprise software companies. IBM is an interesting fourth force at the top of the enterprise software market, being the only one of the big Four (SAP, Oracle and Microsoft being the others) that has eschewed a packaged software strategy, sort of.