This whole IBM thing reminds me of the early days of C-17 development. I was on the avionics development team and tasked with reviewing the vendor proposals for the C-17 avionics subsystems IBM submitted a bid for the entire avionics package including the effort to integrate the whole thing. We chose to select various vendors for each subsystem and then integrate the total system ourselves. The accounts above just confirm the wisdom of that choice more than three decades ago.