IBM's Mid-"Life" Crisis
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The company's move into the virtual reality of "Second Life" is an innovative one.
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San Francisco, December 4: IBM is reportedly in talks 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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IBM is in talks to sell its personal computer manufacturing business which, if successful, would mark the end of an era in the brief history of the PC, a machine the company helped to invent.
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Your statements (re: the S/360) &quot;...It was the first mainframe that allowed different applications to be run simultaneously ...&quot; and &quot;..Before the S/360 appeared on the scene each computer was unique ..&quot; are utterly wrong and do not give the IBM System
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Machines that only a few years ago seemed to be the stuff of fantasy are slowly but surely reaching the mainstream.  Photos: IBM's Blue Gene/L  Photos: Barcelona's big blade
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By Matt Krantz  It may seem odd to think of a 30-year-old hitting a midlife crisis, but old age comes on fast in Corporate America. Often by the time companies hit or approach their big 3-0, they're already showing serious signs of age.
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There are smart moves, and there are stupid moves. For some reason, IBM is selling ThinkPad, the best business notebook brand name, to some Far East discount outfit. That can't be a smart move. As a nonsmart counter-move, I figured I'd better break down and buy one of the darn things before none were left. So I did.
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Microsoft is stuck in the past.  It desperately needs to seek out a new future.
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On the surface, IBM seems to be cruising. Its stock is trading near a six-year high, at almost $106, and its overall financial performance has been improving steadily for more than a year.
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Like a midlife crisis, some money milestones can be easily anticipated.
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON  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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Revisiting the lessons of Garry Kasparov's historic loss to an IBM computer.
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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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2007 top science developments, tech flops, and vaporware...Szulik's parting words as Red Hat CEO...Sony Alpha A700 review...copyright tidbits...Toshiba 32nm deal with IBM
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IBM is hitting an all-time low -- for itself, that is -- in the storage market with a new series of entry-level arrays. The new arrays, including its first iSCSI array and an entry-level Fibre Channel model
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Microsoft is applying for a patent for an operating system that starts out crippled.  You must pay to do things like take the throttle off network speed, disk access, install drivers, install software, and more.  Trust me, I rarely even visit Groklaw, even if this is my second consecutive blog entry with a link to a Groklaw article. My VarLinux.org readers posted the article, A Brave New Modular World, and I had to share it.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) was the company that made the personal computer a legitimate business tool, and during the formative years of the PC industry, its products set the standard.