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IBM's Future Looking Bleak: How Does It Compete in the Cloud Computing Era?
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Hardware giant IBM is facing a rocky transition into the cloud computing and software-dominated world, and not because of its products: The tech world's wild financing structure is world's away from IBM's more traditional methods.
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