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While from a business standpoint, this is perfectly viable and a smart move on IBM's part, in the long-term, seeing how Lenovo has ruined the Think brand, I would be wary of spinning off any more operations to Lenovo. They just don't have clear product focus, but in this world, I guess shareholders rule. Even if those shareholders don't act in the best interest of the company.
Did they really?
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I don't think they would as most of the Power stuff is linked to AIX licenses and is fairly "unique". The offload of the x-series business is most likely due to the fact that IBM can't compete on price with the volumes which HP & Dell shift. IBM have no real USP on X86 as enterprise are now mostly putting ESX, Xen or Openstack on them, IBM have no potential license or service fees generation. It seems a sound busines…
"We don't need the low end. Let them have it." Didn't the american car companies take that route too? And steel mills. and... mainframes I think.
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I don't think they would as most of the Power stuff is linked to AIX licenses and is fairly "unique". The offload of the x-series business is most likely due to the fact that IBM can't compete on price with the volumes which HP & Dell shift. IBM have no real USP on X86 as enterprise are now mostly putting ESX, Xen or Openstack on them, IBM have no potential license or service fees generation. It seems a sound busines…
"We don't need the low end. Let them have it." Didn't the american car companies take that route too? And steel mills. and... mainframes I think.
While from a business standpoint, this is perfectly viable and a smart move on IBM's part, in the long-term, seeing how Lenovo has ruined the Think brand, I would be wary of spinning off any more operations to Lenovo. They just don't have clear product focus, but in this world, I guess shareholders rule. Even if those shareholders don't act in the best interest of the company.
>seeing how Lenovo has ruined the Think brand Did they really?
While from a business standpoint, this is perfectly viable and a smart move on IBM's part, in the long-term, seeing how Lenovo has ruined the Think brand, I would be wary of spinning off any more operations to Lenovo. They just don't have clear product focus, but in this world, I guess shareholders rule. Even if those shareholders don't act in the best interest of the company.
Perhaps they want to sell the x86 business and focus on the emerging ARM/alternative architecture business. I wonder what sort of non-compete the deal would include.
edit: Yes, I did mean 'rally' - thank you.
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>seeing how Lenovo has ruined the Think brand Did they really?
http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/t-series/t...
Perhaps they want to sell the x86 business and focus on the emerging ARM/alternative architecture business. I wonder what sort of non-compete the deal would include.
Being that IBM's POWER architecture is also a RISC architecture I would expect them to rally behind that, if anything. I've heard that POWER's performance had improved dramatically recently, so it would not surprise me if they were trying to push POWER. edit: Yes, I did mean 'rally' - thank you.
This was bound to happen once servers all standardized on one architecture. Not that standardization isn't a good thing, it just became a race to the bottom just like the desktop market.
I don't think we ever buy from IBM, though.