{"id":311,"date":"2008-07-29T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2008-07-29T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T16:03:08","slug":"more-on-ibmilog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/29\/more-on-ibmilog\/","title":{"rendered":"More on IBM\/ILOG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of activity on the IBM purchase of ILOG, with most concentrating on the business rules aspect, which seems to be a driving force. A reader, in a comment, pointed to an article from InternetNews<\/a>, quoting IBM’s Sandy Carter, VP of SOA (see: Ratliff was right<\/a>. SOA is important!). Here is what Sandy says about optimization:<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, IBM’s Center of Business Optimization, a group of consultants acquired when IBM bought PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting<\/a> for $3.5 billion in cash and stock in July 2002, uses Ilog’s optimization products heavily, Carter said. She noted that consultants can now more fully leverage tools such as Ilog CPLEX and CP Optimizer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Besides not quite matching up with my memory of where IBM’s Center for<\/em> (not of) Business Optimization originated (I visited Bill Pulleyblank, VP of the Center and a long time IBMer, not PwCer, and his group a couple of years ago<\/a>), this description of how owning CPLEX can help IBM is a little worrying. The nice thing ILOG (and Dash) did as independents was to push optimization widely. Everyone should have some integer programming in their lives! Now, the two major optimization software systems are owned by companies that could stress consulting and services, not products. <\/p>\n

Here are a couple of futures:<\/p>\n

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  1. The full weight of IBM’s research and marketing arms is thrown behind products like CPLEX, improving the software and selling it far and wide, or\n<\/li>\n
  2. IBM realizes that it has a great competitive advantage in using CPLEX for projects that it is involved with, making it advantageous to limit the availability of the software.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I hope very much that the outcome of this is the first scenario. When I talked to Pulleyblank a couple of years ago, he very much wanted to create optimization products to sell, which is an encouraging sign for the future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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