> IBM's products aren't as good as Amazon/Google You can't compare the first to the other two. Amazon and Google don't make business products. Sure, they sell

> IBM's products aren't as good as Amazon/Google You can't compare the first to the other two. Amazon and Google don't make business products. Sure, they sell "cloud services", but these aren't business products, these are IT services. Amazon and Google sell phones that somebody else makes. They write software that somebody else retrofits. They sell advertising. They sell inexpensive consumer goods, like a voice-activated interface to their search engines, or a stick to stream video to your TV. Outside of cloud computing, they maintain almost exclusively consumer-oriented services and applications. IBM makes mainframes that sit in someone's bank and last decades. They make tools that you buy and install and run your entire business with. They are the one-stop shop for a business that needs technology and can't or won't make it themselves from scratch. It's like comparing apples to quinoa. It's like comparing IKEA to a building contractor.