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IBM Spins Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hdparm-Y dept.

beggs writes "IBM and Hitachi have signed an agreement which will take IBM out of the hard drive market in three years. This press release on IBM's web site gives some details of the deal. 18,000 IBM employees and all their hard drive related patents will join about 6,000 Hitachi employees to form a new company that will be a subsidiary of Hitachi. Sad to see big blue out of the hard drive business, they have made a lot of contributions to computing." We did a story when they announced their plans back in April.

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    1. Re:Purchase as much LNUX as you want to make? by tps12 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:IBM Made $2.05 billion in the deal. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. stop the press by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Microsoft has finally agreed with Debian GNU/Linux, to stop developing MS-Windows in 2 years.

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  5. yes, Spock, it's true... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one...

  6. Re:French Nazi Grammer Police! by Zathrus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just knew I misspelled that. Oh, and it's "grammar" not "grammer" :)

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