IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash
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Re: IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash
#2Re: IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash
#3Makes sense. In the era of cloud services IBM's traditional targets are going to be buying far fewer servers. And you know Amazon and Rackspace aren't buying IBM hardware. Name-brand computers are a shrinking business. This is true across all markets. Even Apple's share is shrinking (as it continues printing money with the devices it's selling, of course)
Re: IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash
#4Makes sense. In the era of cloud services IBM's traditional targets are going to be buying far fewer servers. And you know Amazon and Rackspace aren't buying IBM hardware. Name-brand computers are a shrinking business. This is true across all markets. Even Apple's share is shrinking (as it continues printing money with the devices it's selling, of course)
I would not be surprised to learn that the US Government is the largest single purchaser of IBM hardware, directly or indirectly. Most projects I am familiar with that use COTS machines for processing are using IBM boxes. A significant number of those were x86 though, which leads me to believe that market isn't enough for IBM. Of course, they were pushing POWER really hard when I left that world.
Re: IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash
#5Makes sense. In the era of cloud services IBM's traditional targets are going to be buying far fewer servers. And you know Amazon and Rackspace aren't buying IBM hardware. Name-brand computers are a shrinking business. This is true across all markets. Even Apple's share is shrinking (as it continues printing money with the devices it's selling, of course)
True and Apple interestingly enough jettisoned their rack server a few years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve
"On November 5, 2010, Apple announced that the Xserve line would be discontinued on January 31, 2011"
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/xserve/specs/xserve-in...
Re: IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash
#6Makes sense. In the era of cloud services IBM's traditional targets are going to be buying far fewer servers. And you know Amazon and Rackspace aren't buying IBM hardware. Name-brand computers are a shrinking business. This is true across all markets. Even Apple's share is shrinking (as it continues printing money with the devices it's selling, of course)
“Apple's share is shrinking”
No, it’s not. It has outperformed the rest of the PC market for years and continues to gain marketshare.
Re: IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash
#7Makes sense. In the era of cloud services IBM's traditional targets are going to be buying far fewer servers. And you know Amazon and Rackspace aren't buying IBM hardware. Name-brand computers are a shrinking business. This is true across all markets. Even Apple's share is shrinking (as it continues printing money with the devices it's selling, of course)
“Apple's share is shrinking” No, it’s not. It has outperformed the rest of the PC market for years and continues to gain marketshare. http://www.asymco.com/2013/04/11/happy-birthday-ipad/
Kneejerk much?
The context is server hardware. Apple gave up on the market; the only relevant offering is the very low end Mac Mini Server.
Re: IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Apple's share is shrinking” No, it’s not. It has outperformed the rest of the PC market for years and continues to gain marketshare. http://www.asymco.com/2013/04/11/happy-birthday-ipad/
Kneejerk much? The context is server hardware. Apple gave up on the market; the only relevant offering is the very low end Mac Mini Server.
You may want to read GP's comment again. He believes that all branded computers are on their way out and he uses the (fictitious) decline of Apple's PC business as proof. GP is obviously not talking about just Apple's server offerings. It'd be pretty silly if he were, since Apple has never had any meaningful marketshare in servers.
Also, Apple doesn’t only sell Mac Mini servers, it also sells Mac Pro Servers. Priced at $3k-12.5k, they’re hardly low end. http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/browse/home/shop_mac/fam...
Re: IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash
#9So, are they still selling POWER/PowerPC servers? Would this product line be affected?
Re: IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash
#10So, are they still selling POWER/PowerPC servers? Would this product line be affected?
So long as banks exist, so will the mainframe business.