| ▲ | IgorPartola 5 hours ago | |
I have no horse in this race. I don’t think this is really a fair assessment. IBM is in fact a huge company today and it is possible that they are because they took the conservative approach in some of their acquisition strategy. It is a bit like watching someone play poker and fold and then it turns out they had the high hand after all. In hindsight you could of course know that the risk would have been worth it but at the moment perhaps it did not seem like it given the money the first player would be risking. | ||
| ▲ | bojan an hour ago | parent [-] | |
> I don’t think this is really a fair assessment. IBM is in fact a huge company today and it is possible that they are because they took the conservative approach in some of their acquisition strategy. I can also imagine IBM was being approached by hundreds, if not thousands, propositions. That they missed three that turned out to be big is a statistical probability. | ||