Re: <nettime> IBM bites bigtime

[wade tillett <super89@bigfoot.com>]

Tuesday, April 03, 2001, 10:59:38 AM, spornitz@pangea.ca wrote:

> from the IBM annual report:
> http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2000/flat/toc/2_3_1_intro.html

>>
> So, we're going to invest $1 billion in Linux, and we've dedicated
> 1,500 programmers to enable every IBM hardware and software
> product for Linux. Our strategy is to accelerate its adoption as a
> platform that can support heavy-duty, enterprise workloads-such as
> those already in production with customers like weather.com, Shell
> International Exploration and Production in the Netherlands, and
> Telia, Scandanavia's largest telecommunications company. We think
> that, at the end of the day, the operating system that provides the
> most flexibility to customers is the one that is going to end up
> winning. We're voting with our customers on this one. We're betting a
> big part of IBM's future on Linux.

also from the IBM annual report:

http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2000/flat/toc/2_4_2_flash3.html

"For the eighth straight year, IBM earned more patents than any other
company (more, in fact, than our eight closest competitors combined). By
year end, fully one third of those patents had made their way from the lab
to the marketplace—and were at work powering our own products or licensed
to others. IBM's total intellectual property portfolio generated more than
$1.5 billion in income in 2000."

http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2000/flat/toc/2_2_7_leader.html

"Mills:  Thinking customers today understand that you can't implement a
transformed e-business enterprise unless you get the infrastructure
underneath it running. They also know they need a partner that can look
across all these processes and see how to put them together.
Infrastructure is going to be a winning play for us this year.

Elix:  For us, outsourcing is back strong. We cracked the market in
Asia—in a way, we created the market in Asia. Then there's e-sourcing, and
the business transformation that underpins all of the infrastructure and
hardware and software changes. That holds tremendous opportunities for
growth."





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