Maybe. Until they hire/acquihire a whole layer of different people, the IBM part of this will probably end up with a similar fate. Basically, people who I've wo

Maybe. Until they hire/acquihire a whole layer of different people, the IBM part of this will probably end up with a similar fate. Basically, people who I've worked with were either real geeks who just want to experiment with their ideas/patents and be left alone until retirement (not too much say in anything until things start crashing), followed by great middle folks who stick around for a couple of years then leave for startups and faangs, then the business careerists whose only priority was to suck up to the boss and compete for internal funding by producing powerpoints. Great turnarounds are possible, as Microsoft has shown, but I wouldn't hold my breath in this case.