The Pivot to IoT. Rainmakers, Recipes, Fungibility, Sensors.

Saw this announcement about Pivotal, Benjamin Black and foray into IoT. The competitive landscape gets set out in the article with PTC, IBM, Cisco, Citrix, GE and others. Scroll down to the paragraph with "sensors aren't fungible" for the central issue in IoT, the nature of sensors and their natural environment, in a nutshell.

Interesting concept fungibility. And while one is on the topic of sensors and IoT... here is Oak Ridge Sensorpedia. And here is a sensorpedia recipe. Blogged before about great IBM IoT recipes... $3B investment in new division is quite an IBM announcement. Will this make IBM the rainmakers?