Two things you did not know about IBM: More than 200.000 from its employees are in the Netherlands, and is the third largest software vendor in the world.
Okay, the first item isn't quite right. Those 200.000 workers in the Netherlands are only on paper – it's a perfectly legal tax trick. But the second point is correct, argues the Forrester analyst Research Andrew Bartels.
Until next year, business applications of IBM will be worth about 8 billionmillions dollars, behind SAP and Oracle and ahead of Microsoft, excluding Office sales. "IBM just doesn't want to talk about business because they don't want to make their partners feel uncomfortable," Bartels says.
On Monday, IBM launched a campaign to revise the company's work and turn it into a cloud, investing 1's two billion dollars in new cloud capabilities. This effort involves placing the software portfolio in the cloud.
Source: iguru.gr
