IBM & SAMsysIts worth looking closely at Lou's find in the RFID Journal about the IBM/SMY partnership.
I've put the quote below for the full text but it says that IBM has 25 partner companies actively working on readers and tags and "STRONG relationships" with a number of companies, including in the "reader space, Intermec, Symbol and SAMsys." So we do not just have a relationship but a strong relationship with IBM. Sounds good to me. Nice contibution Lou, much better than your usual crystal balls, so to speak. Here is the full text.
“IBM has 25 partner companies actively working on readers and tags and has strong relationships with Philips Semiconductor, tag providers including Alien Technology, Intermec and Avery Dennison and, in the reader space, Intermec, Symbol and SAMsys,” Holland says. “We never wanted to be in the reader business, and we still don’t.” At the reader-management level, IBM has partnership agreements with RFID middleware vendors including OATSystems and ConnecTerra.