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HP Tipped To Buy EDS To Level Playing Field with IBM: WSJ

 Hewlett-Packard is supposed to be thisclose to buying Electronic Data Systems for somewhere in the heady neighborhood of $12 billion-$13 billion,...

0 replies - 76 views - 05/12/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Start-up Tempts Biggies into Providing DaaS

 

0 replies - 73 views - 04/25/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

IBM Creates Cloud Box

IBM claims to have created new species of custom-built, industry-standard, Linux-based rack server for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing companies with massive data...

0 replies - 75 views - 04/24/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

EC Is Asking Questions about IBM’s Mainframe Business

IBM may be starring down the barrel of an EC investigation of its precious mainframe business. The commission has sent Big Blue a questionnaire asking...

0 replies - 65 views - 04/22/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

IBM Barred from Doing Business with the US Government – Over a Contract It Didn’t Win

Turns out IBM has been barred from doing business with the US government over what was a $84 million modernization contract from the Environment...

0 replies - 496 views - 04/01/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

IBM Barred from Seeking More Business with the US Government for the Foreseeable Future

 IBM had a lousy weekend. See, last Friday – out of the blue according to its account – it found out that the Environmental Protection Agency had...

0 replies - 349 views - 03/31/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

IBM Buys into EnterpriseDB

IBM has taken a piece of open source database start-up EnterpriseDB, a relatively odd thing for IBM to do considering its DB2 interests – unless, of course,...

0 replies - 565 views - 03/25/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

IBM Claims To Have Made Mashups Secure, Donates Code

 IBM says it’s found a way to make mashups secure enough for business. Because of inherent browser insecurity, mashups aren’t really viable for...

0 replies - 546 views - 03/14/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

IBM Joins Eastern Front Against Microsoft

IBM is lending at least its ODF-based Lotus Symphony software to another mission to rid the world of Windows PCs. According to a Reuters story, IBM is...

0 replies - 449 views - 03/08/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

IBM Takes a Swipe at VMware

IBM, which invented virtualization back in “ye ole mainframe days,” has waded into the current discussion with entry-level virtualization for its...

0 replies - 237 views - 01/30/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Will IBM Rescue AMD?

Rumors on Wall Street and a speculative article in the Financial Times have IBM possibly playing Prince Charming to AMD’s Cinderella and either digging into...

0 replies - 75 views - 01/24/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Dell Revisits Blades

The third time, they say, is the charm. Dell has just taken its third swing at blades, a field on which it’s struck out before, leaving IBM and HP to...

0 replies - 75 views - 01/23/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

IBM To Report Solid Q4 on Overseas Sales

IBM pre-announced better-than-expected Q4 results this morning, turning the stock market north at least for the moment. It said it’ll post a 24% rise...

0 replies - 68 views - 01/15/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News