IBM's Watson: Big Expectations

January 10, 2014 | IBM hoped that Watson's its Jeopardy-winning supercomputer would be netting the company $1 billion by 2018. Yet over the last three years, the machine only brought in $100 million total. How does Watson compare with Hadoop and other big analytics? And how does the Watson business model alienate developers, who are driving other big data efforts? ReadWrite