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Sprint Easy Office levels the playing field for small and medium-sized businesses by allowing them to enjoy the benefits of a robust mobile messaging tool without having to make a significant investment in IT support and equipment. As a part of our alliance relationship, Sprint and IBM have partnered to help businesses extend their workplace with a collaborative tool that is easy to use.

SSME positions NC State as a worldwide leader in developing the skills that companies like IBM are looking for in their employees. Our students will now have a chance to be part of this emerging field, opening the door for them to pursue a wide variety of services-related jobs.

Our research shows that Oracle is losing some database business to IBM and Microsoft, ... Based on that, I doubt if the company can raise sales guidance.

Patents which conserve an edge in a rapidly changing market, may have uses for companies such as IBM. But patents which inhibit your customer's ability to achieve their own goals or to contribute to jointly build technology or community build technology are not useful to a company such as IBM wishes to be.

People keep trying to wring more uses out of the old form factors, the old PCs. I'm somewhat skeptical about their ability to really drive into new markets at this point, ... A lot of these ideas have been around for a long time. IBM had a tablet PC, the Word Pad, out several years ago with limited success, and a lot of people are working on better ways of connecting businesses and consumers to business. I think they've demonstrated some really strong uses, but they're more evolutionary than revolutionary, at this point.

I think the rally has a while to go yet, maybe another few weeks, ... Then it's going to be choked off primarily by a valuation problem that people will not be able to dodge. Buying IBM at 30 times earnings -- that's very hard to do for most investors.

I think the rally has a while to go yet, maybe another few weeks. Then it's going to be choked off primarily by a valuation problem that people will not be able to dodge. Buying IBM at 30 times earnings -- that's very hard to do for most investors.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

Judges selected Intermec as the winner in this category based on its ability to deliver cutting-edge innovative value to customers while working closely with IBM to both benchmark and extend those solutions and technologies. Intermec is combining technology expertise with business insight to help its clients innovate on important business issues and realize real efficiencies.

I think that the IBM numbers in particular are going to be important. The chatter that I hear is that Microsoft should beat, but IBM is more mixed. So if IBM beats, that might drive the market higher.

I think the factual record is going to show very clearly that Microsoft's prices are actually lower than most of our major competitors. Lower than IBM , lower than the Macintosh operating system. In fact, the judge's own findings of fact said that IBM charges 2 1/2 times as much as Microsoft charges for Windows '98. So it's very hard to see how this case has any merit whatsoever.

Over the last 18 months that this issue has developed, we have been talking with various IBM executives at many levels, and just had not gotten anywhere, ... We're frustrated.

Over the years at FPL, we have used TDMF on numerous occasions to non-disruptively move thousands of volumes to newer DASD subsystems. We have migrated data during prime shift with no impact to customer applications or online response times. IBM Global Services provided the expertise to allow us to accomplish a difficult task at reasonable cost, while maintaining data integrity.

Overall, IBM hit the first quarter on the button. The company is on the slow track to improvement.

Overall, IBM will paint a picture that demand is solid. It may not be as robust as earlier in the year, but things haven't fallen off a cliff,

Our stance has been in big enterprise applications, it was obvious that people were buying ahead to get their systems ready for Y2K. The mainframe business is a dying business, and our feeling was IBM would see it in the third and fourth quarters because the growth patterns weren't normal.

Our research suggests that current IBM customers are considering other vendors and certainly Dell is on that short list,

I think IBM invented proprietary back in the 80s, but that's not what customers want. They want to have flexibility in choosing a variety of different technologies that they want to deploy.

I think IBM will come back, too. This company is making tremendous progress here.

I worked at IBM a long time, and I think it was 1974 that I was working in their general practice division in Colorado. The head of the general practice division said to us in an all-hands meeting there that IBM believes that tape is dead and (that) we should be getting out of tape.

It is only a matter of time before IBM focuses on a delivering a certified LAMP stack. Also HP is likely to augment its open-source reference architecture with more value-added software and services,

I think this quarter demonstrates how unsettled market conditions are. The old IBM doesn't fit with the new markets. IBM understands this and is trying to move quickly to change itself. This elephant has been dancing on stilts.

Trinity College Dublin needed a high performance, scalable, yet affordable solution to accelerate important research and scientific discoveries. We are very pleased that the college selected Voltaire and IBM to meet these requirements.

I would look for IBM to still have decent growth in the fourth quarter. It's usually a pretty good quarter as far as tech spending goes.

The Alliance at IBM is still an active campaign, but we've not been able to build enough support to get to the point to have a vote, ... But the pension changes there, or the cutbacks and pension changes just announced at Hewlett Packard show the need for unions. They're unilateral, with no one in position to speak for the employees being affected.

The 3000 product set uniquely targeted at that customer set and is entirely complementary. It should allow them (the mass channel) to penetrate parts of market that in the past thought IBM was too expensive. That's where the growth is. This has the potential to improve their market share at Tech Data substantially.

You'll probably see some bottom-fishing in IBM soon, but the rallies are going to be very narrow, selective and not sustainable,

When I first came into this industry I was told that IBM was not someone against whom you would compete, ... That IBM was not a company. They were more like a country and a great country at that, and that I shouldn't even think of competing with IBM.

We have notions of blades that might be somewhat more powerful than what IBM will think about it.

messy, given the significant charges IBM is expected to take.

Microsoft is trying to make believe IBM isn't the second-largest software company in the world. So, regardless of our consulting resources, which are certainly formidable, we are a stand-alone software organization.

Microelectronics remains one of the best parts of IBM and, we think, has an opportunity to continue to grow by at least 20 percent going forward, driven primarily by new design wins,

We don?t see this quarter as being a major catalyst, in either direction, but we believe the trends will improve for IBM during 2006.

While the earnings-per-share outlook was inline with expectations, Network Appliance provided a positive revenue outlook for the fourth-quarter with IBM business just beginning to ramp.

There are plenty of things I wish I'd known when I decided to quit my position at IBM and work on the idea that later became TaskRabbit. Maybe that's why one of the things I cherish most about being a founder and CEO is the opportunity to offer advice to new entrepreneurs.

There are up to 8 layers in an average power chip, and IBM ( Profile , Products , Articles ) appears to have used just the right technology that gave them the fastest speed and least heat needed in each layer of the chip.

We have it ( IBM ) as a recommended list rating because, ironically, this currency change comes at a time when the fundamental picture is actually perhaps a little bit better than what we had been expecting,

We're happy to extend our strategic alliance with IBM to drive innovation in the marketplace for our joint customers. Both companies share a vision for providing cost effective, integrated business solutions for enterprise companies. With this alliance, our organizations will be more tightly aligned and in an optimal position to help our customers succeed with their BI and performance management initiatives.

Whereas IBM decided many years ago that they would not be in the application business, ... They're taking their middleware so that it evolves and becomes wrappers for packaged software that is becoming componentized. Then it almost doesn't matter who the primary packaged application is because if you put the enterprise wrapper around it, then you sort of control the game.

The past year has seen an accelerating pace of development that signals wide customer acceptance of open source software and Linux into mainstream computing. This agreement is perhaps one of the most significant developments so far. IBM is the gold standard for computing.

The decrease in pervasive attacks in 2005 is counter-intuitive to what society at large believes is a major threat to their personal data. 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. Organizations around the world - from the public and private sectors - must move quickly and work together to address this growing challenge.

We've been working with IBM the last couple of weeks on this and with applications in the future. Oracle views the IBM-Oracle project as one of the most important customer-focused projects under way at our company.

We want to be in cheaper tech stocks, and companies like IBM that haven't lowered guidance,

While our checks suggest that there was a general pickup in hardware business at the end of the March quarter, this was probably not sufficient for IBM to make our original revenue forecasts.

While some of our competition is narrowing its focus to just e-mail capabilities, IBM continues to expand and evolve Lotus Notes and Domino to deliver the extended business value of a true collaborative platform. Over the last 20 years, IBM Lotus has defined this industry and has been at the forefront of collaborative innovation. With a broad new set of programs, platform support and Business Partner activity to support the Lotus Notes and Domino platform, we're continuing to meet the growing needs of our customers and are well positioned to maintain our leadership role into the future.

We asked who our surveyed companies thought were leaders in SOA technology. IBM was mentioned most often, leading other providers nearly three to one.

We view this favorably for Red Hat, given our view that Red Hat will need to move up the infrastructure stack and add a database, application server, portal, and integration technology to deliver an open-source infrastructure stack to compete with that of BEA , Oracle , IBM and Microsoft .

When I was finishing grad school, the hot new PC was the IBM 286. Bulky. Immobile. Expensive. I touched-typed easily and quickly, but nevertheless, I realized that the machine was a chain.

We would like to have seen more revenue in the quarter, but we were held back by three items, ... First, demand for our microelectronics products -- from both outside customers and internal IBM customers -- far outstripped our ability to supply components. Second, the upcoming release of our new high-end server slowed demand for the System/390 family of servers. Finally, parts of our software business slowed unexpectedly in September.

We thought they would have a good quarter but it looks like they had an excellent quarter, ... With these bookings numbers you have to toss out any idea that IBM is losing ground in services. They are probably picking up market share.

With this new technology, IBM is providing customers and their mobile workers with an instant backup and recovery solution to protect information on demand. We are extending our technology in storage management software to help people access all the information they need, when and where they need it.

We believe that IBM is a second-half story and now we're there. We believe earnings growth should take the stock higher and we'd be even more optimistic if we had confidence in execution. We think the key to long-term appreciation is figuring out if IBM is a new technology or old technology stock. It's some of both now.

Working with IBM gave us the flexibility to design a processor to give game developers the kind of targeted power they need to make great games.

We're extending our strategic alliance with IBM in order to drive innovation deeper into the marketplace. We think with this alliance our organizations will be more tightly aligned and in an optimal position to help our customers succeed with their business-intelligence and performance-management initiatives.

We still see IBM attractively valued at a 13 percent discount to S&P multiple.

We are pleased to continue our relationship with IBM and its world class engineering team to provide high-bandwidth functionality to new applications enabled by the extraordinary processing power of the Cell BE processor. This agreement gives us a further opportunity to engage with IBM and bring our revolutionary products to the market.

We are lowering our rating...as we await evidence of recovery in the IBM OS/390 mainframe market and improved traction in the European sales organization.

CSC has a long presence in government systems integration and outsourcing, ... By contrast, EDS is keeping its military work to a small percentage of the total, and IBM sold its Federal Systems division." ()

CSC has a long presence in government systems integration and outsourcing. By contrast, EDS is keeping its military work to a small percentage of the total, and IBM sold its Federal Systems division." ()

Bloomberg is now, in a loose sense, a portal. We provide our customers with Internet content, and we direct them to the appropriate content on the Web. For example, if you were looking at IBM information on Bloomberg, we can add a URL that you can click on to get to IBM's Web site.

Did you want IBM to lower their rhetoric on Java?

Competition will intensify but IBM should be able to gain share as HP undergoes a Herculean integration task.

Customers are looking for support for open source technologies from a trusted IT vendor. WAS CE allows customers and partners to tap the innovation of open source technology - backed by industry leading IBM support services - to quickly develop and deploy applications based on open source technologies.

At the Global Business Solutions Center, IBM is embedding a range of high-value capabilities such as consulting, research, and emerging technologies, into easily managed reusable tools that can be delivered globally. In doing so, we are creating a new model for delivering consulting services that will allow our clients to have greater access to innovative solutions for solving their most important business issues.

At the global business solutions centre, IBM is embedding a range of high-value capabilities such as consulting, research and emerging technologies into easily managed reusable tools that can be delivered globally.

I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.

The whole tech sector jumped after the IBM announcement and it may spark a rally tomorrow. But it's one piece of good news. Could the impact be erased by a subsequent piece of bad news between now and tomorrow? Sure.

While the stock could remain under pressure near term, we maintain our 'buy' rating on IBM owing to a compelling second-half story.

We're talking about making people in business more productive every day. IBM is talking about doing a project.

The survey came back and told us we didn't have an image. In the 1993 time frame we were generating about $8 billion in software and still no one thought of IBM as a software company.

We watched the euro get significantly weaker over the last couple of weeks and that certainly has an impact on companies that don't have that much growth, but are very large and very exposed as IBM is internationally,

When you look at IBM over the last few years, a high-end ThinkPad used to be at $7,500. Now, the entire high-end side of the market has fallen to about $5,000. But users still want full functionality, not a brain-dead system.

The savings we expect from this contract with IBM will contribute to both operational and process innovation and simplification, which improves services to our customers and suppliers.

This sounds very interesting indeed. I would not be at all surprised if IBM has problems getting this information.

There is still a per-CPU license, and whoever controls the branch office architecture controls the overall architecture. Cisco has made it clear they will enter the market and IBM will roll something out. Some things will be built into Windows. Microsoft is pushing the appliance vendors to use Longhorn instead of Linux or Unix.

Even the best companies like IBM are saying they are seeing no pick up in demand. It is strictly that some companies are doing a better job of managing their costs and expenses.

Even though the original IBM 801 processor was never used in a production system, it did become the basis for IBM's later Power and PowerPC RISC processors.

Every time IBM sells a product that uses our technology, it damages us. That will come out at the trial,

Prior to 1994, IBM didn't have the kind of structure it has now. They also had silos,

Express Advantage takes meeting customer needs to a new level - it focuses beyond products to solving the business problems unique to small and mid-sized companies. Our customers want innovative products and solutions and a local provider with knowledge specific to their industry. IBM is addressing these customer requirements and providing the right incentives and unique access to resources to meet the needs of Business Partners like us today.

With our hosting background, we had the flexibility and experience to quickly create a one-of-a-kind solution that could support Georgia Tech, IBM and the supercomputing cluster that will power the groundbreaking research of Dr. Skolnick.

Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.

Details on the intellectual property income by quarter shows that IBM will face relatively easy comparisons for intellectual property income in the first half of 2002, making us less concerned about the downside exposure near-term,

Now IBM has customer councils, Web logs, a lot more sources of information, ... But one of the problems with getting information is that you need to validate it. How good is it? Who is this person, a crank or a CIO? Share offers a measure of quality of input.

Dell cited IBM as the competitor that has been the most aggressive right now.

Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and now Compaq are all refining product and promotional efforts to appeal to small businesses, with the Internet and direct contact playing an increasingly important role.

I've been around IBM, and I saw how IBM overdid it. Maybe we will, maybe we won't--but we have strategy control, we have technology control, we've got financial control.

I've been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year - almost 20 years ago - I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back.

That's important because IBM has total revenues of $82 billion,

A lot of customers are going to be demanding that. It has to be seen if IBM and Microsoft are going to offer similar products at similar cost, or as part of their databases.

This has been an active business for many years, obviously through the IBM mainframe market and so forth,

Probably working on some version of software for the IBM PC.

Our applications provide customers with the tools they need to manage the information that runs their businesses. IBM has become the leader in the Unix marketplace and our partnership with the company will allow Oracle to take advantage of the momentum they have generated over the last few years.

Our consulting and services professionals will provide a powerful capability, beginning with business innovation and extending through implementation, to help clients improve their competitiveness and drive sustained growth and profitability. Together with the world-class innovations of IBM Research and our business partner offerings, this new business unit will deliver comprehensive end-to-end business and technology solutions.

There was a combination of things that really depressed it. One was Hewlett-Packard's shortfall and we had a sympathetic sell-off using the political environment as a backdrop. Ironically, IBM remained the stalwart and it probably gave the notion of stability to the tech sector and we saw some people looking for bargains.

The partnership between IBM and Novell is focused on delivering Linux solutions to the market that enable customers to meet their requirements for IT and network infrastructure workloads. We support IBM's initiatives to enable more IT professionals to evaluate and deploy DB2 Express and look forward to working together to bring to market compelling solutions based on DB2 Express-C and Linux.

The partnership between Missouri State University and IBM creates tremendous opportunities for both students and faculty alike. I applaud IBM's effort and commitment to advancing the study of technology in schools. I would encourage others to follow in their example of providing support to students who will be called upon to compete in an increasingly technology-driven, global workplace.

The partnership of IBM and Novell is focused on delivering Linux solutions to the market that help users meet their requirements for IT and network infrastructure workloads.

We believe IBM is the most important partner to Chartered.

This collaboration with Red Hat will help the developer community worldwide test and certify their applications at IBM innovation centers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM platforms, expanding customer choice to deploy affordable Linux-based applications in their existing environments.