[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> IBM bites bigtime

[wade tillett <super89@bigfoot.com>]

Tuesday, April 03, 2001, 10:59:38 AM, spornitz@pangea.ca wrote:

> from the IBM annual report:

> http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2000/flat/toc/2_3_1_intro.html

>>
> So, we're going to invest $1 billion in Linux, and we've dedicated
> 1,500 programmers to enable every IBM hardware and software
> product for Linux. Our strategy is to accelerate its adoption as a
> platform that can support heavy-duty, enterprise workloads-such as
> those already in production with customers like weather.com, Shell
> International Exploration and Production in the Netherlands, and
> Telia, Scandanavia's largest telecommunications company. We think
> that, at the end of the day, the operating system that provides the
> most flexibility to customers is the one that is going to end up
> winning. We're voting with our customers on this one. We're betting a
> big part of IBM's future on Linux.

also from the IBM annual report:

http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2000/flat/toc/2_4_2_flash3.html

"For  the  eighth straight year, IBM earned more patents than any
other  company (more, in fact, than our eight closest competitors
combined). By year end, fully one third of those patents had made
their  way  from  the  lab  to  the  marketplace—and were at work
powering  our  own  products  or  licensed to others. IBM's total
intellectual  property portfolio generated more than $1.5 billion
in income in 2000."

http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2000/flat/toc/2_2_7_leader.html

"Mills:   Thinking  customers  today  understand  that  you  can't
implement  a transformed e-business enterprise unless you get the
infrastructure  underneath it running. They also know they need a
partner  that  can look across all these processes and see how to
put  them  together. Infrastructure is going to be a winning play
for  us  this  year.

Elix:  For  us, outsourcing is back strong. We cracked the market
in  Asia—in  a  way,  we created the market in Asia. Then there's
e-sourcing, and the business transformation that underpins all of
the  infrastructure and hardware and software changes. That holds
tremendous opportunities for growth."



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