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This announcement shows that IBM is very serious about IM interoperability, and is trying to strengthen its enterprise IM presence.

Third and fourth tier companies that bounced sharply last year are having a tough time, ... But IBM and EMC did fine. SAP did fine.

This earnings season, instead of getting a ripple effect on positive news, you're seeing that particular company's stock react, but very little spillover, like with IBM today. The negative news has tended to spill over to the rest of that sector, and in some cases, the broader market.

Advances at the upper reaches of high performance computing such as these often find powerful applications in the broad spectrum of government, industrial and commercial arenas. IBM 's close working relationship with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has resulted in another significant achievement with the potential to improve the lives of people everywhere.

This is a teaming agreement with IBM for .Net ISVs to get into the Linux and J2EE markets. This gives ISVs the opportunity to double their market.

This is exactly what IBM went through during that time frame.

This is a real life example of IBM working with clients to generate new ideas and innovative solutions that deliver business value. The project allows our researchers to utilize the global industry assets we have like the Insurance Application Architecture and Insurance Information Warehouse and further refine them for future engagements.

I've got a distribution system that goes to 170 countries. If I acquire properly, you know, you may be successful in one or two countries, or one place; I can scale, and that's part of the value that IBM brings.

I've got a new IBM laptop and it was made in Mexico. Mexico has captured a lot of manufacturing that used to go to Asia.

In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.

In each instance, Sam has done far more than manage operations effectively, ... He has made it both his personal mission and that of IBM to become the number one competitor in each of these markets. Sam's unique mix of strategic vision, passion and discipline, combined with his intimate understanding of IBM, make him the right person to become IBM's next CEO.

I'm actually surprised the Dow is doing what it's doing, given the strength of the IBM and GE reports.

In recent years, IBM has been following a global strategy to move toward defined-contribution retirement plans for both existing employees and new hires. These changes are consistent with this direction and will give us more predictable retirement plan costs, along with benefits that remain ahead of but more in line with our competitors.

In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

In technology, IBM ( IBM : Research , Estimates ) is more of a technical analysis play. The stock has broken out, or getting very close to breaking out, of a trading range. And I think the market's still going to give a premium to quality companies in technology. IBM being listed doesn't get that Nasdaq appeal, however. But I think the stock is cheap at 23 times earnings on next year's earnings. And their big server market and the other types of technology they have are doing very well in the service sector.

In technology, I think I would go with the big ones. I'd go with IBM ( IBM : Research , Estimates ). That would be my first pick in the technology area.

Integrity of financial transactions, confidentiality within a virtual enterprise, privacy of customer data and availability of critical infrastructure all depend on strong security mechanisms. IBM Research and Business Consulting Services work together to offer world-class solutions to everyday security threats that make sense for your business, whether you have 100 employees or 100,000.

If you look at any of the big companies, whether it is IBM or L'Oreal, they have a corporate religion and corporate self-image that makes it very difficult for them to execute in different areas.

So far it looks good. It looks as though IBM is the company that has the right solutions set for some time now.

Sun has seen overwhelming demand from customers scrambling to move away from proprietary operating systems, such as IBM AIX and HP-UX, to the most advanced operating system on the planet, Solaris 10. Partnering with some of the world's largest integrators to deliver this program will enable more customers to take advantage of the performance and cost savings available from adopting the most advanced OS on the planet.

Sun is coming out with something like this later than IBM ( Profile , Products , Articles ) or Microsoft ( Profile , Products , Articles ) .

Sun is seeing some strength in government and healthcare, but competition -- mostly with IBM -- remains acute,

The bargain prices you get in the sub-$1,000 PC category are exceptional. A new user is going to be much more easily swayed to the IBM world than they are to the Mac world.

The blade announced by IBM is a direct outcome of collaboration with IBM for a year-plus. We're very excited their sales force will get behind that product.

The biggest risk for IBM is not the restatement of revenues and growth, it's more the potential for a crisis of confidence.

Take IBM out and the market looks pretty much unchanged on the day.

Achieving this is not easy. Making things simple is really, really hard. For example, IBM has done well with its SAN Volume Controller, but it took six years to get it to market.

Not only the press, but also the communities and the workers can't get a straight answer out of the company they work for, ... It benefits IBM because they know the truth, and they know that it's hard for others to get the full impact of this, so they just play this game with everybody.

On a very low processor count, IBM now has performance benchmarks that are really going to put HP and Sun in a quandary, because they're going to have to match them.

The next shift is to an object-oriented form of distributed application that is Web-enabled and peer-to-peer -- and here's where the old types of middleware run out of steam. The new companies bubbling up in this area want to ensure they can underpin the new paradigm, and IBM obviously thinks it's best to buy one of the few hardware companies here than try and build something itself.

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

It's possible that end-of-quarter mainframe sales were light for IBM, ... It's also possible that software lags hardware and that the software companies are seeing the weakness IBM saw in fourth quarter of 1999 and the first quarter of 2000.

It's possible that end-of-quarter mainframe sales were light for IBM. It's also possible that software lags hardware and that the software companies are seeing the weakness IBM saw in fourth quarter of 1999 and the first quarter of 2000.

At the same time, Microsoft has not done well at extending its Communications Platform, nee Greenwich, so IBM has an opening here.

The joint efforts of the two technology leaders will result in new solutions for customers to access networked information in new and creative ways, ... By sharing patents, 3Com and IBM have greater freedom to develop exciting new products and compete in new information technology market segments.

The continued relationship with IBM was big for us, ... We've embraced WebSphere as our corporate portal. I don't feel like I'm rushed to move from J.D. Edwards.

The LA Grid program represents IBM's commitment to building the next generation of technology talent across the U.S. and Latin America. The strong partnership between IBM and academia will play an important role creating jobs, driving innovative technology into the marketplace, and stimulating Florida's economy.

It's very focused on the Intel and IBM story today but it's a fairly flat trading day, ... All we've done is gain back a little bit of the massive losses. The damage is still out there with the losses still sitting around.

It will speed this farce up a bit. SCO was saying that because of the patent counterclaims, they needed discovery, more depositions. SCO has no money to pay damages or royalties due to dropping sales figures, so it doesn't matter to IBM to drop them.

In terms of the kind of hurdle that Microsoft and IBM have to leap over, the kind of growth they have to deliver is not as significant a bar as it is for Intel.

Clearly they were bullish and they were really pointed to (the fact) that IBM is getting a benefit from the Internet.

In the mainframe world, contracts state that if I go out and trade my IBM mainframe for one that's twice as fast, then I have to go back to the vendor of the software and pay more money, ... Companies like BMC and CA have done very nicely over the last 10 years, and certainly over the last 5 years, when MIPS growth was just outrageous.

In terms of driving automation through their product set, IBM is one of the top two vendors.

I really think the worst is over. And IBM is the critical reason.

By combining our software and consulting expertise, IBM is helping clients unlock the real value of their business information.

By exposing more functions with Web services, they're making it easier for their products to fit in with SAP and Oracle and IBM applications. So you can pull your BI pieces from wherever you want. That's a fundamental change from three or four years ago.

I don't know how much Apple pays for that IBM chip, but you can bet it's absurdly low. Apple has this crazy idea that it shouldn't have to pay as much as everyone else. And whatever it's paying for the IBM chip, I'm sure it's paying more for the Intel chip.

They were to Battle Creek in the early 1900s what Compaq and IBM computers have been to California's Silicon Valley. They set the standard for healthy living 100 years ago, and they continue to set the standard today.

They want to continue working in positions that offer them the opportunity to give back to society in an extremely meaningful way. Transferring their skills from IBM to the classroom is a natural for many - especially in the areas of math and science.

It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.

It's amazing how investors penalize IBM ( IBM : Research , Estimates ) for the progress they've made over the last few years, ... And, yet they'll pay 100 times revenue for other companies. The second half of this year, it looks very good, very strong for IBM's businesses. I'd continue to buy IBM for portfolios here.

Notes servers run on Windows servers, Notes clients run on Windows. There is a lot of need in the IBM community to make sure Notes is compatible with Office. So it makes sense that Microsoft capitalizes on this before IBM gets traction with Workplace.

I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.

All those guys should not have had a chance when there was IBM sitting there, dominating the computer industry, but they did it,

All too often we get mired in the short-term battles. The PC industry is good at increasing megahertz and megabits, but it requires more fundamental changes than that, ... systems still look like the PC IBM introduced years ago.

The G5 was good and it was going to be the follow-on of the PowerPC road map for the desktop. It worked pretty well. And then IBM decided not to take the G5 into the laptop and decided to really focus its chip business on the game consoles.

The Cherokee Nation appreciates the interest that IBM shows in our children's futures and in making technology access and training available to our people. Technology can play a key role in not only preserving our past, but also in enabling our people to access educational, employment and quality of life opportunities that can help to enhance our future.

A long time ago, people didn't think there was science in computer science. If you were a member of the IBM Academy, you were in hardware. There was no deep intellectual depth in software. Now people say the same thing about services.

The ultimate buyers of a company like ours have only just begun to emerge in our space. The names we'll associate with the services we provide in three, four, five years from now will be like IBM and EMC and Oracle.

The emergence of integrating presence applications to streamline communications amongst employees is one area that is garnering tremendous interest from enterprise customers worldwide. Cisco and IBM demonstrating standards-based integration of presence applications within a leading IP communications systems environment is indicative of this trend and the forthcoming delivery of these solutions.

The evidence will show that is an incredible brand that even Nike would die for. It's a brand IBM would die for. It's a brand even McDonalds and its golden arches would die for. And that's the logo Anaheim is here to get back.

The IBM 970MP is locked, loaded and ready to go. There's no reason why Apple would forgo putting that chip into its systems,

The IBM earnings were good, but is this enough to turn things around?. I guess the futures could rally overnight, but as it stands, we're headed toward a lower open.

The first 3 years IBM left us alone and we made our milestones, ... But the last couple of years, as some IBM units struggled, we started to get pressure to do more back-end integration.

The first quarter was so brutal for technology spending that even IBM missed the number and chose to lower the bar. But here you have an example of a company that's very big and whose results were not, in any respect, worse than expected.

The commoditization of IT labor by Fortune 500 companies will foster the growth of union activity, ... Price controls and margin controls are forcing providers of contract IT personnel to establish non-benefited classes of employees. IBM Global Services has created such a class it calls 'supplemental.' Supplemental employees get no benefits, no participation in 401-K programs, no profit sharing. They are not protected in any way.

The conference center still has IBM finishes on it. It needs a freshening up.

You can see the competitive reaction quite honestly as an endorsement of the IBM strategy.

These are insights that our consultants get from conversations with customers into emerging issues. They are not IBM commercials.

The trip was to celebrate both of our retirements. She'd retired from IBM after 25 years, and I'd retired from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after 33 years. We'd never taken three weeks' vacation before.

It's not like the PC industry. One could argue that IBM came in one day and said 'this is what a PC is,' and then spent a lot of money and created a market then everyone followed. That's not going to happen in this marketplace.

It's a nontrivial process to supply certification. IBM is much better equipped to go through it (than many companies). I'm not sure I can say that for these other databases,

It's all Texas Instruments today. After IBM and Intel last week, we're seeing tech take two steps forward, one step back.

As we have said before, the investor owns IBM for its consistent earnings and cash flow growth and relatively high degree of earnings predictability.

The ODF Alliance (Sun, IBM and their friends) apparently want to push ODF as an 'exclusive' standard to the detriment of all others vs. enabling choice among formats such as PDF from Adobe, Open XML, HTML and others.

Eighteen months ago, seven times out of 10, the short list for these large Unix environments was typically between HP and Sun. In the last six months, that has dramatically shifted to putting IBM much more frequently on that short list.

That is an incredible brand that even Nike would die for. It's a brand IBM would die for. It's a brand even McDonalds and its golden arches would die for. And that's the logo Anaheim is here to get back.

As a measure of our success toward achieving our goal of becoming the industry standard, we've set objectives over the coming two years to grow to 1 million subscribers from 440,000 at the end of fiscal 2005, ... A key enabling strategy for these objectives is to establish BIOS relationships with the top tier computer OEMs. We believe that our embedded BIOS relationship with IBM was a key factor in driving Q4-2005 sales contract growth, and is an indication of the future potential of this strategy. We are continuing to advance this strategy, and subsequent to year end we announced Gateway as the second OEM to begin embedding Absolute's software into their BIOS.

As a customer I have no concern that IBM is going to back off in investment here or not come out with the next generation of technology.

They had a clear technology problem with laptops. They didn't have -- and IBM couldn't seem to make -- a good G5 mobile part, and that problem wasn't going away.

They got rid of a dud so that the profitability of the rest of IBM hardware can now shine.

They got rid of a dud so that the profitability of the rest of IBM hardware can now shine. Hardware revenues without the PC business increased 6% or 9% in constant dollars.

They got rid of a dud, so the profitability of the rest of IBM hardware can now shine.

There isn't a player on the desktop that's at greater risk of losing share to IBM here than Microsoft,

It was good already, and IBM keep chipping away at making it easier to use - so that lowers management costs.

It's just safer to shop around in the domestic-demand-related and defensives departments at the moment with earnings from companies like IBM coming up this week.

It seems that GM put a damper on things with some negative comments, and the economic numbers were a little weaker. They are both putting an overhang on the IBM news, which was generally positive. This is one of the biggest earnings days we have -- and people are going to be focusing more on the guidance than they are the actual earnings.

With IBM gone, it won't be long before a lot of other companies follow suit.

When all is said and done, IBM will come out pretty darn clean,

We expect that the mutual goal of ZF and IBM to deliver products of the highest quality and reliability, utilizing IBM's world-class foundry technology, will result in a successful long-term relationship.

We're very pleased to have IBM as a major sponsor, ... The acceptance of the OSGi Service Platform has exploded over the last year, with framework developers, device manufacturers, and service providers releasing OSGi enabled products and services. IBM has made significant contributions to the success of the OSGi Alliance.

It's a very unusual day for the Dow Jones because IBM and J.P. Morgan accounted for more than half the drop. We've got a lot of fear in the market place and that's going to continue. We don't know where the bottom is, so just stay the course. There's so much uncertainty and investors have so many questions that they just sell stocks.

It's kind of six of one, a half dozen of the other. Storage vendors are always going to advertise that their products will take the load off the server. Server vendors are going to say they'll take the load off your storage -- frankly, I'd be disappointed in a server vendor like IBM that didn't try to leverage its servers.

It's good for Compaq at the margin, because it helps them fill out their product line, and it is good for IBM at the margin because it helps them to sell storage.

It's becoming increasingly clear that Sun is betting its business on Niagara, but as they attempt to buy time and momentum with an early product release, a number of challenges remain. Sun is pushing chip multi threading (CMT), which IBM's Power chips have had for some time. It's unclear why a customer would go with Sun's new processor platform when IBM has proven CMT technology and industry-standard benchmarks that continue to demonstrate the superior performance and speed of POWER.

It looks like the market and customers have compelled IBM to release its own ESB-branded product as a way of offsetting the increasing noise and competition in the space for those sorts of products,

There's a lot of trepidation out there about earnings, ... A lot of times, the complexion of markets is what the household names are doing. A couple of weeks ago it was about IBM ( Research ) and Apple ( Research ). Today, it looks like the focus is on Amazon, and that can shape the market -- at least in the early going.

This is very significant because this is one of the final steps in IBM transforming itself from a hardware-and-software company to a consulting-and-services company.

There were a lot of people putting weight in the IBM decision. But the first company to market with this wins.

There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.