In the grand scheme of IBM's business strategy this makes sense. They sold off their consumer PC market to Lenovo already. The hardware game is not where the

In the grand scheme of IBM's business strategy this makes sense. They sold off their consumer PC market to Lenovo already. The hardware game is not where the big money is. Would you rather be selling relatively cheap hardware or have an army of high end consultants billing out at $250+/hour? You can contract IT infrastructure, application development, BPM, legal and many other services from their professional services division. Want to start an international bank? IBM's financial services and global services will help you out. This is purely just the next step in their evolution to a pure services company with some top notch talent.