IBM paid $1.2 billion for an analytics company during a recession. How do you see this shaking out? (Poll Closed)

• Brilliant move. Analytics is the new hero of telecom and nobody can touch IBM there.
  42%
   
• OK move. It has to keep pace with Oracle, SAP and others.
  42%
   
• Risky move. That’s lots of dough only for the government to come and say you can’t use it.
  11%
   
• Stupid move. It’s nothing more than CRM and we all know how that turned out.
  5%