IBM will pay US$1.2 billion in cash for SPSS, a company with technology that will bolster Big Blue's business analytics line-up.
Enterprise technology giant IBM must be thanking Australia a billion or more correctly four, after Big Blue's local office pulled in more than $4 billion in revenues for the first time in the 2008 calendar year.
Telstra this week said its IBM-led supply chain overhaul had helped shed 400 staff, cut its inventory centres by half, and cut out 2,000 suppliers.
IBM likes open source so much, it's adopting the out-in-the-open process for its own product development -- to a point.
IBM will spend US$745 million to buy software-development tools company Telelogic, Big Blue said on Monday.
Big Blue seeks higher, more profitable ground in the market for business computing services.
Firm quietly working on data storage software designed to help companies find business documents scattered across their networks.
Stephen Ward, general manager of IBM's Personal Systems Group, will lead the way as the new Lenovo sets its sights outside China.
Big Blue's plan to sell its PC unit to China's Lenovo Group (formerly known as Legend) would be the latest example of a move toward consolidation as the market reaches maturity.
EMC has hired an IBM veteran to be its chief technology officer, in what appears to be the latest step in the storage hardware specialist's quest to spread its computing-industry wings.
IBM workers once believed they didn't need a union because working conditions used to be the best in the industry, but the competitive market has led to cost cutting measures which have had their toll, according to the Australian Services Union.
IBM's iSeries will never be IBM's most exciting range of servers, but it is destined for great things, according to one of its architects.
IBM's continuing development of its Project eLiza initiative to create self-managing systems could make it a star-date to remember.
Hot on the heels of news that IBM had scratched the TransNote portable PC from its ThinkPad range, IBM Australia has announced plans to discontinue WorkPad, its line of Palm OS handhelds.
Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.
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