IBM and Mega
Tuesday 3 Dec 1996, Integrion, the IBM consortium, alliance with Mega software for banking-on-line product development efforst.
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This "alliance" may prove to be another negative issue in future expectation of Intuit. Many long's of recent , have speculated, that Intuit may be for sale and this suggests, IMHO, that at least IBM and Integrion are not currently interested.
You may wish, also, to focus on the jargon "openess" for software designed for and by banks. This may be an issue of some importance. IMHO, groups associated with the electronic banking, and homebanking must market the idea that the client bank is totally incharge of the software, interface, front-end..etc...
Clearly, IBM's marketing might, and sales people are more experienced than Intuit's, to deliver the "open software" message to banks.
P.S. I am not suggesting a rating between the software of Mega and Intuit. Rather, I am suggesting that this is a clue to the direction (i.e. away from Intuit,) which Integrion is directing itself.
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