[cognivore]

I can't think of two many companies that are more irrelevant to the future of computing. What does IBM actually do anymore? Seems to me they just need legions of consultants and cheap developers to bleed their customers under the guise of offering "solutions."

[dominotw]

They seem to do bunch of smaller startups like these

https://www.compose.io/

[mooreds]

Here's the wikipedia list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

[paulddraper]

I don't think Softlayer and Bluemix are irrelevant. That's my prediction.

[mkohlmyr]

I think IBM Marketing Cloud might have a future if they don't screw it up. It's really 50/50 at this point. Some of the products (UBX) are good, but the architecture / API design / quality seems suspect at times. They've improved on Silverpop massively since the purchase and re-brand, but it still leaves plenty to be desired. If they gave the team that built UBX free range to re-build Silverpop from the ground instead of skinning it better they would have a serious competitive product on their hands.

Between that and Softlayer / Bluemix / Compose / Cloudant they have a serious cloud offering if they do some consolidation.