What do you find as vaporware? I don't think they are offering vaporware, but their marketing is doing lot of hype hoping to enter into the startup ecosystem, but are failing miserably due to their traditional focus on selling to large corporates. I have attended IBM sponsored conferences and I was floored by the the reach they have for their cloud offering, especially on large firms and Govts. Agree that Bluemix, as an offering is nowhere as polished as AWS is, but they do have a good business going around it.
I was speaking of Watson. It seems like every time it comes up someone who was tasked with investigating it for their company or someone who actually worked at IBM comes along and talks about how big of a joke it actually is.
I was one of those people tasked with investigating Watson and I had the exact experience you described. It was a huge joke. Tried out Bluemix as well, it wasn't a huge joke but it wasn't great either.
What was lacking in Watson? Lack of features or lack of accuracy? I had integrated Watson in on of the libraries in a platform I was building and found it reasonable. Haven't compared it extensively with other offerings from Microsoft or AWS, so interested in knowing if you have..
