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News IBM plans to acquire network-management software maker Micromuse in a $865m cash deal, Big Blue said on Wednesday. The transaction is designed to enhance Big Blue's Tivoli software portfolio with Micromuse's network management offerings. [21 Dec 2005]
Big Blue says 'on-demand' is ready
News IBM's "on-demand" effort to transform how businesses use technology has moved from abstraction to reality, CEO Sam Palmisano told a group of customers on Wednesday, but much of Big Blue's energy is still being devoted to explaining the idea. [13 Nov 2003]
TDWI Podcast: Big Blue touts Dynamic, Balanced Warehousing
White Paper Talk to Big Blue, and they'll tell you the Balanced Warehouse is the hub of their dynamic warehousing strategy. Tune into this TDWI Radio News interview, with Eric Kavanagh, to hear Karen Parrish, vice president of business intelligence solutions... [13 Jul 2008]
Big Blue to send jobs to India and China?
News The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Big Blue has told its managers to plan on shifting the work of thousands of programmers to foreign countries. On Tuesday, a union group trying to organise workers at Big Blue said IBM's alleged plans... [17 Dec 2003]
Big Blue bags billion dollar outsourcing deals
News Under the Swiss deal, Big Blue will consolidate and manage personal technology for all 64,000 employees of Zurich Financial Services. But Big Blue didn't say that it could incur personnel expenses that total as much as $90m. [12 Dec 2003]
Big Blue files counterclaims against SCO
News SCO has sued IBM for $3 billion, alleging that Big Blue moved proprietary Unix code into Linux and breached the terms of its Unix license with SCO. IBM on Thursday filed counterclaims against the SCO Group in the continuing legal battle over the... [07 Aug 2003]
Big Blue seeks to pooh-pooh SCO suit
News The request appears in an amended counterclaim Big Blue filed on Tuesday in its legal battle with SCO, whose main claims allege IBM violated contract provisions by distributing Linux products that illegally incorporate Unix code that SCO controls. [31 Mar 2004]
Big Blue to help decode the Big Bang?
News IBM and Astron started working on the design of the chip in October this year, and the first prototype's delivery will come out in the first half of 2007, Big Blue said. IBM and European astronomy organisation Astron are collaborating on designing... [06 Dec 2006]
Big Blue gets bigger
News IBM's sales grew faster, though, with revenue increasing 6.3 per cent to $3.4bn, giving Big Blue 31.7 per cent of the market. IBM increased its lead in a growing server market, nibbling away share from rivals Hewlett-Packard and Sun, according to... [24 Nov 2004]
Big Blue tickled pink about web services
News Project Allegro includes technology from other IBM products, including Big Blue's WebSphere server software for building portal and e-commerce Web sites and its Tivoli software for managing computing systems. [27 Sep 2002]
Big Blue secures ISS for $1.3bn
News With ISS, Big Blue intends to deliver the company's products through consulting engagements and hosted services. The ISS acquisition, expected to close in fourth quarter of this year, adds to a rapid-fire succession of big purchases at IBM. [23 Aug 2006]
Photos: Inside Big Blue's new RFID centre
Photo Big Blue likes to "eat is own cooking", according to execs. The centre houses a 20-strong team, on hand to show customers and would-be early adopters how the track and trace technology can be used in a real-life situation. [22 Mar 2006]
SCO vs Big Blue: Judge rejects copyright claims
News A US judge has thrown out hundreds of claims made by SCO Group in its Linux lawsuit against IBM, finding that SCO failed to specify many of Big Blue's alleged misdeeds. The company launched its initial suit against IBM in 2003, claiming Big Blue's... [03 Jul 2006]
Sink or swim? Why Big Blue should jump the PC ship
Comment IBM and Dell signed a $16bn deal on 4 March, which would see Big Blue supply "storage, microelectronics, networking and display technology for integration into Dell computer systems". This OEM agreement started the rumour mill turning over. [29 Mar 1999]
Big Blue sees big bounce
News The company surprised Wall Street in the first quarter of this year with disappointing earnings, which Big Blue blamed on weak spending in Europe and sales-execution problems. IBM rebounded from a disappointing first quarter, reporting second... [19 Jul 2005]
