Mobile SaaS
When IBM tosses down 100,000,000 R&D dollars, we had all better pay attention. IBM has discovered mobile, no doubt dumfounded by the runaway popularity of its media rival Apple. I am sure that Apple’s original 1984 poke at the then-failing IBM left a shoeprint on IBM’s corporate butt. With IT hardware commoditizing and the market for IT services being finite and more competative, it would be unsurprising if IBM was looking for where to grow next. They may be as enamored by iPhones and Apple’s app store as a crazed public. IBM has decided to invest $100M into mobile communications research over a five year period. Though Big Blue is focusing primarily on extending enterprise IT to handies, they are not imune to the notion of enabling B2C and C2C interaction as well. Apple has demonstrated that selling to the masses generates massive muhla. Being an organization driven by numbers … Continue reading →