IBM is such a shadow of what it used to be. Hopefully newer health+genomic+ai startups or initiatives at less dinosauresques companies will make the next leap happen in our lifetime.
I could see them making a comeback with crypto but not the way we think about it today. Instead, inter-enterprise operations infrastructure.
It turned out that under the hood they were just using conventional distributed database technology. All marketing in order to get multiple companies to work together on shared systems.
Not quite, check out Corda's R3 project - it's already being widely used in enterprise and projects are being built on top of it.