IBM Retreats from Individual Computer Area
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International Business Machines, better known as (IBM), will cease producing their personal computer (PC) production activities. According to the news of New York Times, the strongest candidate to buy the
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NEW YORK - We may soon add IBM to the long, long list of companies exiting the thankless business of selling personal computers. According to a report in The New York Times, IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people
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JP Morgan Chase is cancelling a $5bn IT outsourcing deal with IBM and bringing the service back in-house. IBM will hand over the running of the investment bank&#39;s data centres, help desks, distributed computing, data and voice networks from January 2005.
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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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San Francisco - It is reported that IBM is to sell its personal computer business in a deal that could be worth up to $2 billion and would cap a gradual withdrawal from the business it helped to pioneer in 1981.
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The immediate future of the computer industry -- and its biggest players -- took center stage Tuesday after IBM announced it is selling its PC business to a Chinese technology giant.
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IBM, the company that transformed personal computers from a hobby to an industry with the introduction of its PC line in 1981, will bow out of the increasingly low-margin market through a partnership
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The computer giant hands off its personal-computer business business to a Chinese firm
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Dell customers may now decline unwanted software or 'bloatware' applications loaded on new PCs.
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An era will come to an end when IBM sells off its computer manufacturing business, according to The New York Times. A Chinese company seems the likely buyer and the deal should fetch upward of $2 billion.
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IBM&#39;s expected decision to sell its $11.5 billion PC business would mark the end of an era and dramatically reshape the systems landscape, posing
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The company credited with making computers a commodity exits the business as PCs become too common for makers&#39; liking. By wire services.
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NEW YORK, December 8  - International Business Machines (IBM.NYS) has decided to sell its personal computers business to Chinaâs Lenovo Group for $1.75 billion in a cash and stock deal.
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Hewlett Packard has decided to discontinue offering desktop workstations based on Intel&#39;s Itanium microprocessor as its customers prefer the extended 64-bit approach.
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IBM&#39;s possible exit from the personal-computer business would be the latest move in what amounts to a long goodbye from a field it pioneered and revolutionized.
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DECEMBER 13, 2004  - Now that IBM plans to sell its PC division to Beijing-based Lenovo Group Ltd., the big question is whether the companies can keep users from defecting to other vendors -- which would put IBM&#39;s once standard-setting PCs
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The application server space is heating up once again as both IBM and BEA Systems tout new versions of their platforms. With its Liquid Computing strategy, San Jose, Calif.