Steve Jobs’ fake blog did a post Tuesday about IBM and their software growth hype:

You gotta hand it to IBM. No matter how crappy their business is they can always find a chunk of fool’s gold in the pile of dogshit and then get someone in the media (or everyone in the media) to focus on that. Latest example was this story in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal about how IBM’s software division is just setting the world on fire. According to our spies at Fortune, IBM’s flacks have been shopping this story around since January. At last someone bit. Wow, software sales were up 14% in the last quarter and a galloping 7% for the full year, and now Steve Mills is the second coming of Gerstner. Never mind that the way IBM did this was to move some revenue that used to get recognized in other categories over into the “software” division.

A fake celebrity blog is a great idea, and that one’s a lot of fun because the posts really seem to reflect his flair. (another great fake celebrity blog is Drew Bledsoe’s from last year). Anyhow, I kinda feel busted in so far as he’s right about the software growth being in no small way attributable to acquisitions and number tricks. Maybe I did buy into the hype. I guess because I keep an IBM blog and bought in, I’m just a fan boy at this point.

That said, Lotus Notes busted out last quarter, not because of acquisitions or Enron accounting, but due to a solid reputation and a killer offering. I’m still high on Sametime 7.5 too. But all in all, Steve Jobs called me out. Way to go Steve.

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