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Despite rumors that IBM may sell its personal computer division, University officials said that it is too early to tell what effect such a sale would have on the ability of Harvard affiliates to buy discounted IBM computers through Harvard...
Unconfirmed reports in the New York Times and Washington Post last weekend suggested that IBM may sell its personal computer division to the Chinese company Lenovo. An IBM spokesperson would not confirm or deny the rumor...
...TRILLION Number of calculations IBM's new Blue Gene/L performs per second, making it the fastest supercomputer in the world...
...more than 10% so far this year. But sales executive Andrea Schauer says people everywhere are postponing Christmas purchases to later and later in the season "and at some point time runs out." Indicators For Sale by Owner Twenty-three years after releasing the first commercial personal computer, IBM is reportedly discussing the sale of its PC business. China's Lenovo Group is said to be a likely buyer at a cost of $1-$2 billion. IT research group Gartner predicts that low growth and profits will force three of the world's top 10 PC vendors...
...early 1980S, Burroughs Corp. was desperately seeking a way to get back in the game against IBM. Burroughs had fallen so far behind that it found itself utterly dwarfed by its larger rival. Burroughs' solution? Undertake the then largest merger in computer history: buy Sperry Corp. and create a new company--dubbed Unisys--as a single-step leap to greatness...