Watson of course is PR-ware, a sort of flux capacitor for selling seven figure consulting services. IBM does truly deserve credit for making Linux a safe choic

Watson of course is PR-ware, a sort of flux capacitor for selling seven figure consulting services. IBM does truly deserve credit for making Linux a safe choice for corporate IT. Few people remember this, but believe me I sat in on IT focus groups in 2001-ish. Every. Single. Person. In every single session in every city said "there's no way we could use it in production". In every group, there was one who added "... but if IBM..." (literally as a sentence fragment like that), then the whole room would agree out loud. Spooky. And then IBM came out with a big Linux campaign and the rest is history. Anyway, that happened. It doesn't make a business for IBM. But it was a good contribution. That too was a way for IBM to sell consulting services. Which is all they really are.