That's the mainframes, power systems, research, and what else?
Considering IBM's patent portfolio, just who has enough money?
Cringely suggests:
Private equity - that'll need to be a consortium, but there shouldn't be any shortage of potential members.
If the goal is to pump up numbers then selling the patent portfolio makes sense. Companies like Amazon, Apple, MS, Samsung et. al. could create corporation to buy the patents with everyone gaining access to them. The question is whether the patent portfolio is worth more than bundled with GTS. IBM could split them while assuring the GTS buyer access to them via a reasonable license deal.
Who has enough money to buy IBM GTS? (Score:5, Insightful)
That's the mainframes, power systems, research, and what else?
Considering IBM's patent portfolio, just who has enough money?
Cringely suggests:
Private equity - that'll need to be a consortium, but there shouldn't be any shortage of potential members.
HPE - unlikely. The outflow of talent from the three sections above would leave them unviable.
Oracle - that's a joke. Ditto.
Re: (Score:4, Interesting)
That's the mainframes, power systems, research, and what else?
Considering IBM's patent portfolio, just who has enough money?
Cringely suggests:
Private equity - that'll need to be a consortium, but there shouldn't be any shortage of potential members.
If the goal is to pump up numbers then selling the patent portfolio makes sense. Companies like Amazon, Apple, MS, Samsung et. al. could create corporation to buy the patents with everyone gaining access to them. The question is whether the patent portfolio is worth more than bundled with GTS. IBM could split them while assuring the GTS buyer access to them via a reasonable license deal.
Re:Who has enough money to buy IBM GTS? (Score:2)
> That's the mainframes, power systems, research, and what else?
None of it is part of GTS, cringely doesn't even know how the company is currently organized.