I kind of gathered that IBM had this sort of love/hate relationship with acquisitions. They loved the "new ideas" but many of the "old guard" hated the idea tha

I kind of gathered that IBM had this sort of love/hate relationship with acquisitions. They loved the "new ideas" but many of the "old guard" hated the idea that something from outside of IBM was novel and worth pursuing. I watched first hand as things that had been done by a company that was acquired were buried while the exact same kind of thing done by IBM research was given lots of funding. I understood not having two efforts, but suggested they be blended to get the best of both teams, alas that was shot down. At one time IBM research had a pretty awesome storage group, perhaps they will will have a computational storage fabric offering at some point.