False Rumor or true???????????
12/2/2004
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=805
IBM to exit PC business
-Posted by dan.farber @ 9:40 pm (PDT)
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The New York Times is reporting that IBM is preparing to unload its desktop and notebook PC business, exiting the low-margin PC business (of which IBM currently has about 5.6% according to Gartner, trailing Dell and HP significantly).
The sale, likely to be in the $1 billion to $2 billion range, is expected to include the entire range of desktop, laptop and notebook computers made by I.B.M.
According to the people close to the negotiations, I.B.M. is in serious discussions with Lenovo, China's largest maker of personal computers, and at least one other potential buyer for the unit. Lenovo was formerly known as Legend.
I can remember the days in the early 1980s when the IBM PC and IBM-PC compatible defined the personal computer--that was before Wintel rose to prominence and the Macintosh (with 128K of RAM) came along in 1984, setting the bar for usability. PCs have become a commodity business and being the number three provider, with more of an eye on high-margin enterprise product and services, isn't enviable, even if it's more than a $10 billion line of business as in IBM's case.
12/2/2004
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=805
IBM to exit PC business
-Posted by dan.farber @ 9:40 pm (PDT)
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* Hardware Infrastructure
The New York Times is reporting that IBM is preparing to unload its desktop and notebook PC business, exiting the low-margin PC business (of which IBM currently has about 5.6% according to Gartner, trailing Dell and HP significantly).
The sale, likely to be in the $1 billion to $2 billion range, is expected to include the entire range of desktop, laptop and notebook computers made by I.B.M.
According to the people close to the negotiations, I.B.M. is in serious discussions with Lenovo, China's largest maker of personal computers, and at least one other potential buyer for the unit. Lenovo was formerly known as Legend.
I can remember the days in the early 1980s when the IBM PC and IBM-PC compatible defined the personal computer--that was before Wintel rose to prominence and the Macintosh (with 128K of RAM) came along in 1984, setting the bar for usability. PCs have become a commodity business and being the number three provider, with more of an eye on high-margin enterprise product and services, isn't enviable, even if it's more than a $10 billion line of business as in IBM's case.