I doubt IBM gave Google any thought in this matter. I'm pretty confident that it has a lot more to do with the way IBM does their market segmentation, and how t

I doubt IBM gave Google any thought in this matter. I'm pretty confident that it has a lot more to do with the way IBM does their market segmentation, and how that is related to hardware + software bundling and firmware. The ARM BMC fits in a HMC shaped hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Hardware_Management_Console https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Hardware_Management_Consol...