IBM Shedding PCs for Services, On-demand
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IBM&#39;s (Quote, Chart) decision to sell its personal computing division to China&#39;s leading PC maker Lenovo for $1.75 billion spawned diverse reactions in the industry.
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The New York Times has a genuine scoop today. IBM, which introduced its widely cloned personal computer in 1981, has put its PC business on the block.
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Buoyed by surging sales of its mainframe computers in recent quarters, IBM is aiming to broaden the use of the powerful machines, particularly in China, the world&#39;s fastest-growing large economy.
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In unloading its personal computer business for $1.75 billion to a Chinese company, IBM managed to keep the division's most profitable pieces -- services and support. The onus is now on buyer Lenovo Group Ltd. to improve the businesses' notoriously thin profit margins, and the skeptics are many.
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IBM, which pioneered the personal computer business in the 1980s, is said to be negotiating the sale of its PC unit in a move that could reshape the industry.
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IBM may be selling its PC business, but it&#39;s working hard to keep its PC customers. Still, competitors Dell, Hewlett-Packard and others are likely to come knocking in an attempt to pick off nervous customers
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IBM Corp. is introducing a range of new products and services, many based on technologies coming from recently acquired companies, aimed at helping businesses better manage and take advantage of their various software and hardware systems.
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IBM Friday sharpened it blade offerings to target small and midsize businesses with the announcement of new hardware and software bundles.
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A report in The New York Times that IBM is poised to sell off its PC unit has provoked mixed reactions and tentative interpretations from analysts who follow the historic company.
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International Business Machines Corp.  IBM.N said it is making the design of its "blade" computer  servers widely available, in a move designed to gain wider  acceptability in data centers and the telecommunications  industry.
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Buoyed by brisk sales of its  mainframe computers in recent quarters, IBM is aiming to  broaden the use of the powerful machines, particularly in  China, the world's fastest growing large economy.
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IBM, whose first PC in 1981 moved personal computing out of the hobby shop and into the corporate and consumer mainstream, has put the business up for sale, people close to the negotiations said Thursday.
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IBM will put a collection of its On Demand-related products and technologies to this test next week at the U.S. Open tennis championships, implementing a grid-based infrastructure capable of running multiple workloads including two not associated with the tournament.
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InfoWorld - It may be too early to talk plug-and-play but IBM&#160;believes it can help businesses of all sizes easily cluster their servers to handle intensive computing workloads.
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IBM is tweaking its semiconductor technology to help extend the performance of its servers and enterprise PCs, the company said Monday.
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IBM is considering pulling out of the personal computer business it founded - a sign of a big change in the way companies buy computers and a shift of power in the PC industry.
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IBM Corp. has put its PC business up for sale, according to a story published on Friday on the Web site of The New York Times.