"Distant memory" indeed
I am reminded of a piece from not long ago, which congratulated IBM on its successful history of "fighting off" upstart competitors such as (I shit you not) Microsoft. The pundit went on to explain how Big Blue would totally blow Amazon out of the water cloud, any moment now, just you wait...
I am, of course, being unfair. It must be hard for IBM, a company that once had the whole computing industry in its claws, to be reduced to just another IT company. Barely does it remember, I bet, what it feels to set off in some direction and have the world follow...