Two IBM services units acquired by GXS owners
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IBM Global Services has agreed to sell its Electronic Data Interchange and Business Exchange Services businesses to Francisco Partners, the majority owner of electronic data transmission vendor Global eXchange Services Inc.
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IBM will run the contract and provide mainframe and server consolidation and IT operations for the Texas state government. Contract partners Unisys Corp. will provide data center operations and facilities management.
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The World Series of networking services IBM and Cisco are expanding their Global Services Alliance, er globally.â¦
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China&#39;s biggest computer maker says it has acquired a majority stake in IBM&#39;s personal computer business. The 1.75- billion-dollar deal is one of the biggest Chinese overseas acquisitions ever.
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International Business Machines Corp. on Thursday agreed to buy MRO Software Inc. for $740 million, giving IBM a niche provider of software and services to help customers including nuclear power plants and oil companies make the most efficient use of industrial assets.
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Buys privately-held XIV Computer giant IBM said today that it has acquired Israel-based storage firm XIV for an undisclosed sum.â¦
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, 12/8/2004. IBM&#39;s awaited personal computing division sale to Lenovo Group Ltd. became official this morning with an announcement that Big Blue will pass the unit to China&#39;s number one PC maker for $1.75 billion.
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IBM to acquire NovusCG, a storage technology provider.
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OCTOBER 18, 2004  - NEW YORK -- IBM last week unveiled two new enterprise-class disk arrays. One is aimed at the high end and one at midrange environments, but both have compatible software
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(InfoWorld) - Business Objects SA's share price surged in Paris Thursday morning, as rumors swirled of a takeover bid from IBM Corp. or Oracle Corp. Buying the French BI (business intelligence) software vendor could be a good way for IBM or Oracle to use the cash they have available, according to one analyst. The three companies declined to comment. "We don't comment on rumors," said Business Objects spokesman Philippe Laguerre. Oracle made a big push into the BI market on March 22 with the launch of three software bundles branded Oracle Business Intelligence Suite. The bundles combine Oracle's database, its Fusion middleware and analytics software it acquired with its purchase of Siebel Systems. That deal, worth almost US$6 billion, closed on Jan. 31. IBM already partners with BI vendor Cognos Inc., a rival of Business Objects. On March 7, IBM announced that it will work more closely with Cognos to develop BI software with a SOA (service-oriented architecture). At the time, analysts suggested that acquiring Cognos would be a logical next step for IBM. Such a move could be hastened if Oracle were to bid for Business Objects, said David Bradshaw, principal analyst at Ovum Ltd. in London. Bradshaw dismissed another rumor he had heard, that German ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor SAP AG could buy Business Objects. "They have not made many large acquisitions, and they already have their own BI technology," he said. The BI market is dominated by a group of large, independent vendors. Business Objects expects revenue to total $1.2 billion to $1.215 billion this year. Cognos expects revenue of $950 million to $970 million in its current financial year, which ends Feb. 28. Of the other large BI vendors, only Teradata belongs to another company (NCR Corp.), Bradshaw said. Based on Business Objects' market capitalization, a buyer would have to pay over â¬2 billion ($2.5 billion) for the company, he said. Business Objects and Cognos "have been around a while. Maybe the other players like having independents in the field," said Bradshaw. But should IBM and Oracle choose to change that status quo, buying Business Objects would be harder for Oracle than it looks, he said. "At first glance, it looks like a marriage made in heaven, but most of Oracle's customers already have at least one BI system," and often more, he said. Oracle applications have to work well with those different BI tools, and customers value that flexibility, he said. "Future customers would not want to be confined to having one BI tool." Trading in Business Objects shares opened in Paris at â¬24.80 on Thursday, up from the Wednesday closing price of â¬23.02. As the rumors spread, the price peaked at â¬25 but by the close of trading had settled back to â¬24.76, up 7.6 percent on the previous day's close.
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IBM announced agreements with two Danish companies on outsourcing deals that together are worth more than $1 billion over 10 years.
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IBM Corp has signed a seven-year deal to manage the voice and data services of London, UK-based financial institution Lloyds TSB. The contract is estimated to be worth $972.5 million.
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BEIJING, Dec. 31 -- The biggest Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group acquired the personal computer unit of the world&#39;s largest information technology giant IBM on December 8 at a cost of US$1.75 billion.
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But this parcel is passing partners by IBM is developing off-the-shelf service products covering real-time collaboration, unified messaging and SOA, after launching a pair of networking packages last week.â¦
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IBM has signed a seven-year, $969.2  million contract with British bank Lloyds TSB to supply it with  Internet telephony and data services, IBM said on Monday.
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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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InfoWorld - IBM has bought XIV, an Israeli manufacturer of SAN (storage area network) equipment. XIV's main product is Nextra, a storage system based on a grid of standard hardware components.