Watson of course is PR-ware, a sort of flux capacitor for selling seven figure consulting services.<p>IBM does truly deserve credit for making Linux a safe choice for corporate IT. Few people remember this, but believe me I sat in on IT focus groups in 2001-ish.<p>Every. Single. Person. In every single session in every city said &quot;there&#x27;s no way we could use it in production&quot;. In every group, there was one who added &quot;... but if IBM...&quot; (literally as a sentence fragment like that), then the whole room would agree out loud.<p>Spooky. And then IBM came out with a big Linux campaign and the rest is history. Anyway, that happened.<p>It doesn&#x27;t make a business for IBM. But it was a good contribution. That too was a way for IBM to sell consulting services. Which is all they really are.