Comment by spitfire
14 years ago
Do you have any real evidence to back that up? When Lou Gerstner came to IBM he all but said their innovating days were over. Since the 90's IBM hasn't come up with any new products, instead focusing on acquisitions. Their patent flow is full of business process patents.
and their technology products are aimed clearly at tying themselves into large govt/business service contracts (See "smarter cities" stuff).
Watson is a neat tech demo, but not much more. I've built parts of the technology in Watson independently.
IBM apparently still does a lot of interesting fundamental research, in their PR it looks like they've got a focus on materials science for storage and medicine and they do interesting data-driven work around health, population genetics work (out of Africa hypothesis as one example) etc.
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressreleases/finder.wss?t...
It might not be Xerox Parc stuff, and a lot of the PR looks like fluff, but it looks like there's real stuff going on there...
Oh come on.