Are Tech M&A Kings Oracle, IBM, Cisco, And HP Too Big To Innovate?

摘要

If customer-centric innovation can be measured by sheer volume of acquisitions, then Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, and Hewlett-Packard are the top innovators in the IT industry. But it clearly can't.rnSo let's take a look at each of those companies and offer some letter grades on how well each is doing in leveraging their hyperactive M&A teams into new ideas, new approaches, and greater levels of choice for CIOs. We'll start with Oracle and IBM here; go to information week.com/1261/evans2 for our full analysis of Microsoft, Cisco, and HP.