As to the rest, I get the feeling that a lot of players in the market that now need software have the exact same tales being told about them. It is going to be a wonderment to me if I will be about to get through a day in 10 years without a IoT failure.
Given what I saw I'm amazed that any of their software actually works. Perhaps Predix will buck that trend, but I still posit that this would be the exception not the rule for them. What I can say is that I worked for a number of other large companies and the only other company that came close to having this level of inefficiency was a defense contractor. While some of these other large corporations had a some WTF moments for me GE had a much larger number, but it is a large organization so other's experiences may be different etc..
Say what you want about Steve Balmer but he had the right attitude towards that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHI7RTKhlz0&feature=youtu.be
As to the rest, I get the feeling that a lot of players in the market that now need software have the exact same tales being told about them. It is going to be a wonderment to me if I will be about to get through a day in 10 years without a IoT failure.