IBM nabs Platform for cloud control freakery
If you want Big Blue to buy your software company some day, you can increase the odds by moving it near Toronto – that location just did the trick for Platform Computing.
The center of gravity for IBM's Software Group, excepting its operating systems, is centered around the Canadian industrial and financial capital, and has been for decades. Big Blue has bought so many software companies established in the area that it is hard to keep track of them – and, of course, its own Toronto Software Labs is IBM's third largest software facility and where its DB2 database, Rational development tools, Tivoli systems management tools, and myriad WebSphere products are crafted.
