Come into my Parlour, said the Spider to the Fly*
"The Smart Analytics System will ship at the end of September, and it will eventually support the predictive analytics software that IBM is getting through its $1.2bn acquisition of SPSS. That deal is expected to close before the end of the year, and it is not clear how the SPSS software will affect the configuration of the BOA box."
What a very revealing paragraph and damaging paragraph? Surely SPSS should be supporting, as in steering/driving, IBM. Anything else is that hoary old chestnut which hinders Novel Entrepreneurial Progress, Embrace, Extend and Extinguish.
* http://www.love-poems.me.uk/howitt_the_spider_and_the_fly_funny.htm