I'm amazed that IBM isn't in trouble - their services and products seem so expensive that I wonder how anyone could ever buy them. I just came home from a dinne

I'm amazed that IBM isn't in trouble - their services and products seem so expensive that I wonder how anyone could ever buy them. I just came home from a dinner with somebody working for IBM, and she told me that getting a new customer into their CRM costs around $5000 and takes a week! A month back a story ran in Denmark where IBM had bid to install an Oracle database, and wanted $30.000 for doing so. A small company made fools out of them by having an engineer do the same thing in less than half an hour. In a straitjacket, only using his nose. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHzV4LZnvHc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHzV4LZnvHc