IBM's Sell-off to HCL: 4 Take-aways
If you license one or more of these IBM platforms, you have good reason to feel a bit queasy right now.
HCL
Excerpt from the HCL: evaluation:"Note that while you can import Connections activity streams into other applications, you are neither socializing the experience in those applications nor delivering contextual collaborative services in non-IBM environments ..."
(P. 103 in the Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software Report. )
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