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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.

In all the years with IBM Research, I have especially appreciated the freedom to pursue the activities I found interesting and greatly enjoyed the stimulus, collegial cooperation, frankness, and intellectual generosity of two scientific communities, namely in superconductivity and critical phenomena.

Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.

Technology is something we buy to sell to the customers. Ericsson, Nokia and IBM do technology for a living, so let's give it to them because they know best. It has made the business model of Bharti very, very sustainable.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.

I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients.

What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

I want to take IBM back to its roots.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

One of the reasons they wanted to keep the IBM people is that ThinkPad had the best reputation in the industry. They're the Mercedes of PCs.

When I came here, we were 85 percent or more hardware. There were very few IBM fellows in software. Software was just stuff to make the hardware work.

Of course, Sun is trying to slice IBM customers away, saying, 'If you want to do e-commerce, you have to do it on Solaris.'

One of the things IBM needs to do more of is become more competitive with their hardware products. They've become very competitive in software and services. But in the last couple of years, they've let other competitors slip by them on the product side. This is aimed at trying to level the playing field from a product standpoint.

Nobody has a pure mainframe or pure IBM site. Everybody has a little bit of everything.

Next year IBM is probably going to come in roaring back into the second half, but in between it's a mess,

If these designated groups build their next generation of healthcare and education standards on web services, electronic forms, and open document standards, and they do so within rules of maintaining compatibility and interoperability, then IBM will not assert any of our patents on implementers of these new healthcare and education standards.

The plan is to transition to the Intel processor by the end of this calendar year from today's IBM G5 2.3 GHz processor PowerPC processor. It's the best way to improve performance.

Momentum in the blade market continues, with shipments growing by 60 percent from 2004 to 2005. While IBM only has 20 percent of the x86 market, they benefit more from the shift to blade systems, given their dominance there.

Many of our experienced employees have math and science backgrounds and have made it clear that when they are ready to leave IBM they aren't ready to stop contributing.

Siebel CRM OnDemand was built on Siebel 7.5.2, and the fact is that that product line runs on any database and any application server. We created a partnership with IBM and we chose for that partnership, for obvious reasons, to run it on WebSphere and DB2. There is no technical linkage. We can make a different decision going forward if we choose.

Frankly, IBM is so large it is difficult for them to hide from an IT slowdown.

Fundamentally, I think that many of the reports, from companies like Intel, Apple and IBM do portray a relatively sound tech environment. But people are anxious right now generally.

Global Services results are disappointing, especially a $2 billion drop in its backlog in the fourth quarter. And a 9% decline in new contract signings? That means that the biggest IBM unit is losing more business from its backlog than it is signing.

If anyone wants to look at the quantum leap at IBM, they should look at profit margins. Investors have to be savvy enough to accept the fact that sometimes smaller is better, but that's not the mentality on Wall Street. That may be why IBM is not getting the credit they deserve.

I don't think Oracle and IBM want another Microsoft in Red Hat.

Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.

IBM  ( IBM : Research , Estimates ) is another company which I think is one of great Internet plays in the next three or four years, and one of the differences between IBM and others is they're earning billions of dollars. So I think IBM can be bought. I don't think it's expensive here.

IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and distributors, and ultimately for consumers, ... The initiative announced today will help evolve the digital distribution of content over the Internet to create new e-commerce opportunities.

IBM believes that the environment has shifted. With increased security protection on most systems and stiffer penalties, we are seeing organized, committed, and tenacious profiteers enter this space. This means that attacks will be more targeted and potentially damaging.

IBM continues to believe that it can hit consensus EPS targets. In a deteriorating environment, this undeniably represents a solid showing.

IBM creates the framework for the developers to write the applications.

IBM customers are the least vulnerable, the least likely to switch. While customers of Hewlett-Packard and Sun are among the most.

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.

IBM had a good quarter. It showed the strength of our business model across hardware, software and services.

IBM had a good quarter with excellent earnings-per-share results. We continued to improve our profit performance with our strategic focus on higher-value segments of the marketplace, as well as with our emphasis on productivity and global integration.

IBM had the most global solution, both in the sense of reach as well as in scope of capabilities.

IBM has been aggressive in terms of financial incentives for companies that are part of their overall ecosystem. They are making the effort to ensure this will be something that attracts partners so they won't go looking elsewhere.

IBM has been at the forefront of establishing Eclipse as a premier open-source platform, and their continued commitment and contributions is an important part of our growing community.

IBM has decided that being a company committed to open standards, open document formats and free software means ultimately reassessing the patent process and its role in your relationship to your customers,

IBM has proven that the services/solution centric approach to the market can build shareholder value.

IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we'll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions.

IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.

IBM ( IBM : Research , Estimates ) is a very well-managed company, it looks to us like the shares have made a bottom, that the short-term trend is improving, that momentum is improving. And the company has had some disappointing comments to make. But that's already in the price of the stock. And the stock is down some 40-ish percent from its high, and very well managed.

IBM is a much more pervasive company. I'm going to be very interested in how they've done in software and global services. That is a very strong snapshot as to what final demand is for corporate information technology spending.

IBM is benefiting from a growing tailwind. The confidence shown recently by companies in their IT plans augurs well.

IBM is betting the company around the industry getting behind open standards.

IBM is clearly showing that software alone won't solve the totality of SOA challenges, ... This will turn up the heat on the other platform vendors such as BEA (Systems) and Oracle to consider how they too will broaden their coverage of SOA beyond simply software and professional services.

IBM is clearly the market leader in continuous-feed, data processing printing. It's profitable. Very profitable.

IBM is firing on more cylinders than many expected. The fourth quarter is shaping up to be particularly strong. It's the first time in many years we have visibility to year-end and all indications are positive.

IBM is going to have another negative effect in the broader market. It's a major stock.

IBM is increasingly a services company ... and we are, at the end of the day, a software company.

IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

IBM is one of these big bellwether companies where their business is so solid that in a year like 2001, where everybody was missing, IBM never missed a quarter.

IBM is perhaps the most important earnings call because this company is the one that has made itself out as a new model of a major tech company,

IBM is pleased to announce our intent to become a founding sponsor of The Green Grid. IBM has been a leader in innovation around power and cooling technologies and committed to implementing energy efficiency programs for more than 30 years. We look forward to working together with other like-minded companies to promote further innovation around power management in the data center.

IBM is positioning itself to be the vendor of choice when the open-standards strategy manifests itself and Massachusetts divests itself of closed-standard technologies, ... Microsoft now has viable competition on the end user's desktop, whatever that desktop looks like over the next few years. IBM has served notice that it won't go down without a fight.

IBM is sharing the procurement expertise it developed for its own internal needs.

IBM is taking the high ground and sitting it out while other companies slug it out. There is no company in a better position to do this.

IBM is the story of the day. The reality is that we are in a bull market. We had two days of correction. The market was ready to resume the up trend.

IBM is trying to ride this horse along with all the other horses it's riding and not fall off any of them. This is a great circus act.

IBM is uniquely poised to connect multiple development teams through a secured, distributed environment. Systems engineers rely on the IBM Rational Software Development Platform to collaborate and govern their overall software development process.

IBM just doesn't give me the performance I'm looking for in tech,

IBM legitimized the notion of the PC -- that it would not be just a hobbyist computer.

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino represent a significant part of the corporate email landscape.

IBM made a big commitment to our customers and our open source strategy when we told the world we were making a substantial investment in Linux nearly six years ago. That included partnering with Red Hat and Novell. Our customers responded with incredible enthusiasm and today IBM's Linux business is growing faster than the industry. And that growth is propelling Novell and Red Hat to the top tier of IBM's strategic alliance partners.

IBM maintained the No. 1 spot in the server blade market, with 40.9 percent market share, while HP maintained the No. 2 position with 38.6 percent share, ... Dell's share of the blade market decreased to 6.5 percent in 2Q05.

IBM may be left to duke it out for the remaining half of the contract that has yet to be awarded.

IBM offers us the best capacity and the best growth path, enabling our company to grow as fast as we need to. We can now offer our services to mid-sized animation firms who are, in turn, looking to scale quickly. And we can do this after only a few days and a phone call to IBM. IBM's ability to offer computing power on demand is critical to our business.

IBM recognizes that our customers need more than just email for their collaboration needs -- as a result, IBM has evolved Lotus Notes and Domino forward as an extensive platform built to meet the business objectives of a wide variety of corporate communities, including end-users, IT administrators, application developers and the CFOs office, ... Today, tens of thousands of customers are relying on Lotus Notes and Domino to help drive their overall business, so weve built Lotus Notes and Domino 7 with capabilities that can increase productivity from the organizational level down to individual knowledge workers.

IBM's announcement today hopefully is a harbinger of things to come, ... Investors need to know there's a sense of value among market leaders. IBM stepped up to the plate, and the market seemed to have rallied on the news and inspired other investors.

IBM's announcement today hopefully is a harbinger of things to come. Investors need to know there's a sense of value among market leaders. IBM stepped up to the plate, and the market seemed to have rallied on the news and inspired other investors.

IBM says they can balance both and still get these higher speeds, but there's still lots of details yet to be revealed. It sounds great, but you could have stripped down a whole bunch of functionality to get that higher speed, which wouldn't be so great.

IBM says we have a team of consultants and we can help you innovate. But at the end of the day, unlocking people potential is better. Having people collaborate to make the right decision is more productive.

IBM says, 'We have the phenomenal team of consultants. Hire us and we'll help you innovate. At the end of the day, unlocking the potential of each and every employee to drive innovation, to us is a much bigger bogey.

IBM still has to grow the top line. They have been cutting costs, but they have to do something more.

IBM's unwavering focus -- from one end of our organization to the other -- is on delivering open, on demand solutions and services that are channel-ready, as well as offering partner programs that truly stimulate an ecosystem of growth, collaboration and innovation. We are dedicated to being the IT industry's partner of choice and we are honored that the Business Partner community selected IBM as the company they most want to partner with.

IBM's weakness was more of an aberration than a growing trend. It's more likely we'll see IBM get back on track this quarter.

IBM Tucson is exceptionally interested in participating in many, many parts of the community, especially where we can focus on K-12 and higher education.

IBM understands that a lot of important business collaboration occurs across enterprise boundaries.

IBM was one of many companies that were good at managing expectations in a period where investors were conditioned to expect earnings surprises.

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

IBM will be the other shoe to drop this week. If we have two good numbers out of these companies, you could start seeing some substantial gains in the sector.

IBM will continue to bring new blades to market as our industry partners update their technology. This technology is still in its infancy, and there is much innovation yet to be created.

IBM will go higher, it's just that it won't go as high as the other (technology) stocks,

Having that backlog helped IBM through the worst part of the recession.

What you really would have is a situation similar to when IBM was in full swing in Boca Raton.

With more and more small and medium business owners and entrepreneurs worldwide turning to IBM Lotus and IBM Business Partners to help them build industry-specific solutions, our focus in 2006 is on delivering products and services that are affordable to manage but do not compromise on depth of capability.

I already have it, but a good keyboard is invaluable when you spend a lot of time typing. My favorite one is the ancient IBM Model M I have at home.

HP's problems with services are not uncommon. IBM has had issues like that, too, of late. The larger problem with tech today (Friday) and in the last month has been that improvement in semiconductor capital equipment, like Applied Materials, doesn't transfer over to the rest of the tech sector. While tech fundamentals are turning, the evidence of that has been slow coming.

We look forward to working closely with CA as well as IBM and the other leaders in this area as we develop a trusted vehicle and database for administering and encouraging donations to the burgeoning patent commons in which we all have a stake.

Had they left IBM where it was, the index easily would have been 1,500 points higher during that time. But how can you give them praise or blame? They are just making up an average.

There is a more significant revenue component to this relationship. IBM is making available to us their portfolio that runs on Linux; we can then incorporate that software into Red Hat products and jointly sell those products.

There is an IBM Power5 upgrade coming as well.

There is an increasing risk that Microsoft might atrophy on the PC platform as IBM did on the mainframe platform, while robust growth shifts to hand-held and wireless devices,

Linux will be integral on all IBM platforms, even the S/390,

Linux will be integral on all IBM platforms, even the S/390. This is an evolutionary trend.

That capability from IBM really came about because they were able to build an architecture that had a much lower processor requirement with very extreme levels of performance. That gave them a tremendous price-to-performance advantage in that market versus their traditional competitors, HP and Sun.

is about IBM not fighting the open-source tide, but choosing to ride it.