[opendtv] Re: IBM out of the PC business
- From: johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 16:02:45 -0800 (PST)
I think this might be overblown. I certainly hope that it is, since
they're a vendor of mine. However, I don't read "getting out of the PC
business" to mean "getting out of the server business" and it sounds like
they're not going to make the actual hardware, but have somebody else in a
cheaper locale make them. This is a problem?
John Willkie
> I thought that this had essentially already happened, but
> it's still an intriguing demonstration of how innovative
> products become commodity items. Part of the off-shoring
> thread.
>
> Bert
>
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> IBM reportedly preparing to sell PC operations
> By Nicolas Mokhoff , EE Times
> December 03, 2004 (9:25 AM EST)
> URL: http://www.eet.com/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=3D54800041
>
> MANHASSET, NY - When IBM unveiled its personal computer
> 23 years ago, it launched the "PC" era. That era may be
> at an end with the company's decision to sell off its PC
> operations.
>
> If completed, reported negotiations between IBM and
> China's largest PC manufacturer, Lenovo, would result
> in IBM exiting the PC business, relegating an American
> invention to the world's cheap labor market for
> manufacturing commodity electronics products.
>
> Launched on Aug. 12, 1981, the "IBM PC" was the result
> of work by a team of 12 engineers led by William C. Lowe.
> The IBM team working in Boca Raton, Fla., designed and
> built the "Acorn" PC under secret plans dubbed "Project
> Chess." IBM renamed the Acorn personal computer the IBM
> PC, thereby popularizing the term and creating an
> industry from what had been a hobby.
>
> The IBM PC was different in that it was the first
> computer based on an open architecture and made from
> off-the-shelf parts. It was marketed by outside
> distributors such Computerland. The IBM PC was eve
> n
> chosen as Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1982.
>
> The New York Times reported on Friday (Dec. 3) that the
> proposed sale if IBM's PC operations could be worth as
> much as $2 billion, and would likely include all of
> IBM's desktop, laptop and notebook computers.
>
> Copyright 2003 CMP Media
>
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