The post lost credibility for me when I saw it listed IBM's purchase of Tivoli as a notable M&A deal. First, the purchase was done in 1996, 17 years ago. Second

The post lost credibility for me when I saw it listed IBM's purchase of Tivoli as a notable M&A deal. First, the purchase was done in 1996, 17 years ago. Second, at the time, no one at Tivoli would have described their products as having anything to do with SaaS (known as ASP back then).