January 23, 2008 9:20 AM PST
IBM buying business software firm AptSoft
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Big Blue expects the acquisition will expand its business-event processing software portfolio.
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Like when IBM bought out Lotus because IBM couldn't write application and server software properly.
Like when IBM bought out Weblogic because they couldn't do Web software properly.
Like when IBM dropped OS/2 in favor of Linux, because they couldn't code OS/2 properly or support most modern hardware with it either.
Then again, this isn't anything that Microsoft doesn't do either.