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IBM's x86 Server Business Back On the Market
itwbennett writes "It was widely reported last year (including on Slashdot) that IBM attempted to sell off its x86 server business to Lenovo, which seemed logical as Lenovo had bought out the IBM's PC business a decade ago. However, the two firms could not come to financial terms and the deal was never struck. Well, the rumors have started up again, only this time Lenovo has some competition, as Dell and Fujitsu are now being thrown into the mix as possible suitors."
the rumors have started up again, only this time Lenovo has come competition, as Dell and Fujitsu are now being throw into the mix as possible suitors.
Come one, that's just sloppy writing there. We can do better than "Lenovo has come competition" and "being thow into the mix".
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They need to put Ginny Rometty, Steve Mills, and the rest of those Wall Street-facing PowerPoint-tweaking MBA losers out on the market.
What does IBM do anymore then?
Intragalactic Bowel Movements?
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IBM could easily keep this and be innovative. Sadly, it is ran by a bunch of MBA's who are only interested in running up stock prices.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
off of a PC business that IBM was not able to. Is it because USian workers are all lazy? You know what we really need to do is to give China the cream of the USAian elite managers. I think we should export all the Harvard school of management graduates along with all our intellectual property lawyers to China. Think of all the exponential improvements the Chinese economy would undergo. Sure the Chinese are great at making things, but they have no management skills. We need to help these poor Chinese out. The USA may suck at most things but we have the best management in the world (just ask them). How much better would China be if it had Carley Fiorina in charge of something. It would be a real boom to the elite managers also. No longer would they have to deal with all the fat lazy USian workers. Unfortunately the workers will be directionless, and would not know how and where to go for the next meeting. So be it. That is the price of globalization.
Is that configuration is same or upgraded one?
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First, obviously there is the fact that they just spent a boatload of money buying themselves, it seems a stretch they would be able to extend themselves to acquire such a large thing. Moreover, what they stand to gain seems insufficient to go out on a limb. Dell already is well positioned in the x86 server market, and an acquisition would probably drive much of the customer base to HP (a good chunk of their business is loyal to *IBM*, if forced to choose between Dell and HP I think they'd choose HP). If they are looking to be the provider of servers to IBM's solutions, then that would be counter to Dell's ambitions to grow their own. Of course, the scope of the sale is unknown so it might actually include some of the groups that integrate solutions (notably, much of the Top500). Of course, one thing it would do is see IBM's server presence go away without some other company getting the benefit of a jump into the market. One thing is for sure though, IBM and maybe Dell employees best hope if a sale happens, it is *not* to Dell. The overlap between Dell today and what they would acquire means there would be a bloodbath of eliminating redundancy. Probably the best hope is Fujitsu. The least overlap and a chance at retaining presence at US government sites (pretty big chunk) that would not purchase Lenovo. Fujitsu is probably in a stronger position than Dell in terms of willingness of southeast asia to buy.
Fujitsu is known for making some solid never fail tank style servers. I admin a few of these myself and didn't even realize the hardware vendor for many years until a cluster failover card failed and needed to be replaced. In this case it was a Fujitsu Sun system. I can only assume Fujitsu IBM systems would carry on the overbuilt stability minded servers you come to expect from an enterprise server like IBM.
I can't say the same for the other two contenders.
There is or can be built a machine that can simulate any physical object. -Church-Turing principle
There is much truth to what you say, but there is still engineering.
One, you oversimplify the engineering of the mechanicals as 'case design'. There is a good amount of thermal engineering toward the end of optimal power consumption. Multi-server enclosures segmenting cooling zones the right way and ramping the fans just right.
Component selection plays a critical piece too. IBM has kicked out voltage regulator vendors and similar things.
The other piece is about manageablity. The 'innovation' (if any) is mostly at the software layer, but it does require a very thorough and disciplined instrumentation of the components in hardware and firmware.