Palmisano&#39;s Vision in Remaking IBM
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IBM chief executive Samuel J. Palmisano has never been your typical suit. During his 31-year career at Big Blue, he has taken bold actions and broken with IBM (IBM ) tradition when it made strategic sense.
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IBM has unveiled two new Rational development tools and and a Tivoli applications management offering. They can be used separately or jointly to boost the quality of a service-oriented architecture.
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IBM's Rational Software unit provided a peek into the principles guiding work on its next generation of software development tools.
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TechWeb - IBM ponders how enterprises can be rewired to be more like games, particularly massively multiplayer online games like fantasy-themed World of Warcraft.
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SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - The days of relying on shrinking transistors to achieve performance gains are over, and the chip industry needs to enter a new era of innovation where system-level features are just as important as thinner transistor gates, said IBM Corp.'s Bernie Meyerson in a keynote address at the Fall Processor Forum Tuesday.
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Looking to regain its footing, Computer Associates (Quote, Chart) will reportedly tap IBM (Quote, Chart) veteran John Swainson as CEO.
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The computer maker takes a first step toward transforming its ailing model of selling direct to consumers.
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Swainson, a 26-year IBMer, most recently led the worldwide sales organization for the company&#39;s software group. He replaces interim CEO Kenneth Cron.
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The IBM computer is based on a technology called BlueGene/L, which takes an approach radically different from that used by NEC&#39;s machine, called the Earth Simulator.
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The Motley Fool - In November, IBM (NYSE: IBM - News) chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano announced that his company would be investing $100 million to fund business ideas generated by its InnovationJam -- an online, company-wide brainstorming session. The jam and the $100 million commitment are just two additional reasons why I think IBM is the best blue chip of 2007. But what I found interesting about the announcement was that Palmisano announced the news in both the physical world (in Beijing) and the virtual world. ...
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- IBM has devised a way to triple the amount of memory stored on computer chips and double the performance of data-hungry processors by replacing a problematic type of memory with a variety that uses much less space on the slice of silicon.
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IBM&#39;s decision to free up design specifications for its blade server system has stimulated interest in the tech community. The company said more than 100 companies have embraced the BladeCenter spec to build various hardware products.
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Jerry Yang gives a glimpse of Yahooâs future that depends more on third-party developers.
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Handheld-computer maker PalmOne is considering moves that would take it beyond the operating system that helped make the company a household name.
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Computer Associates International Inc.'s  new CEO, an IBM veteran, is remaking the company's business structure along the lines of Big Blue, as the software supplier gets back on its feet after an accounting scandal.
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IBM is spearheading a group to develop 32-nm system chips that includes AMD, Samsung, Toshiba, and others.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM's chairman, CEO and president, Sam Palmisano, declared the vendor's second-quarter fiscal 2007 financial results the company's best growth performance in six years. This quarter's strong revenue growth -- "our best since 2001" -- shows IBM's global reach and the value customers are placing on the company's expanded software line and services, he said in a statement. Palmisano added that IBM is well on its way to achieving its goals for growth through 2010, making "solid progress" on its road map for the next three years. For the second quarter of fiscal 2007, which ended June 30, IBM reported a rise in net income of 11.8 percent over the year-ago quarter to $2.3 billion on revenue up 9 percent to $23.8 billion. EPS (earnings per share) grew 19 percent to $1.55, compared to the same quarter a year ago. The results included a pre-tax gain of $81 million related to IBM's sale of its printing systems division to Ricoh. Excluding that gain, income from continuing operations was $2.2 billion, up 8 percent on the second quarter of fiscal 2006. A consensus estimate of Thomson Financial analysts, which didn't include the pre-tax gain, was that IBM would report revenue of $23.1 billion on an EPS of $1.47. IBM's revenue from the Americas rebounded during the quarter to grow 6 percent on the year-ago quarter to $10.1 billion, while revenue from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa rose 13 percent to $8.2 billion and Asia-Pacific revenue was up 10 percent to $4.6 billion. Back in April, when discussing IBM's first-quarter results, Mark Loughridge, the company's CFO, identified a slowdown in the vendor's U.S. enterprise business, particularly in the industrial, financial services, and communications sectors, in March. He didn't provide a satisfactory answer as to why the slowdown had occurred but dismissed it as more of a blip than an indicator that something serious was wrong. Loughridge predicted modest growth for IBM's overall Americas business in the second quarter. There was also good news in the most recent quarterly report about IBM's services business, which, though large, has been a stumbling block in terms of growth. Total global services revenue rose 10 percent in the second quarter, led by growth in Asia-Pacific. IBM cut costs by making two rounds ofÂ job cutsÂ in its services divisionÂ in May, affecting more than 2,800 employees. IBM's systems and technology division saw revenue growth of just 2 percent to reach $5.1 billion, while the vendor's software business increased revenue by 13 percent to $4.8 billion. Significant events for IBM occurring in the second quarter included Amazon.com paying the vendor an undisclosed amount of money toÂ settle all outstanding patent lawsuits between the two companies. They also signed a long-term patent cross-licensing agreement to end a dispute that began in 2002 and made it to the courts last year when IBM sued Amazon.com and then the online retailer countersued with both parties alleging that the other had infringed on its patents. IBM also began shipping its new dual-core Power6 microprocessor on a new midrange server, the System p 570, and started talking up blade and mainframe offerings for SMBs. The vendor also put the next major release of its DB2 database, currently known as Viper 2 and due to ship before the end of the year, into open beta testing On the acquisitions front, IBM made two purchases in June to add functionality to its Rational development tools family. The vendor firstÂ acquired Web application security vendor WatchfireÂ for an undisclosed sum and then announced plansÂ to buy Swedish software development tools company TelelogicÂ for $745 million. In other IBM news, the company announced Wednesday the retirement of Paul Horn, the current head of IBM Research. Taking over his role is John Kelly, previously senior vice president, technology and intellectual property at IBM.