It’s interesting that so much attention gets paid to Oracle and their acquisition strategy while little attention is given to IBM for having a similar, if not much smarter, strategy.

This underscores a point I have been writing and speaking about for over a year, the move to SOA is creating a entirely new category of software company that is becoming so not simply through being a services provider or application developer, but a combination of both and most interestingly, they are doing it while using application services provided by other companies.

Industry shift to services fuels IBM spree | Tech News on ZDNet:

And that’s just the announcements made in the last month. If all recent deals go through, IBM will have shelled out more than $9 billion (all in cash) since 2003 on acquisitions, with the bulk of the money going to 31 software companies.

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