Lenovo slips into jam-packed SMB server market
Chinese computer maker Lenovo is bigging up its newfound love for all things server-shaped with today’s announcement about its new ThinkServer product line. The company inked a licensing agreement with IBM at the start of this year to make and sell a range of x86 servers. At the time Lenovo was clearly making a play for the …
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Posted Tuesday 16th September 2008 19:18 GMT
Only a matter of time... #
...before IBM System X goes the way of their desktop/laptop business? Let's face it those things don't help IBM push expensive services the way their software and proprietary System P/System Z products do... and IBM never really "got" the SMB space anyway.
Posted Wednesday 17th September 2008 13:27 GMT
They got tired of waiting.... #
.... for IBM to sell them the xSeries bizz!
Posted Wednesday 17th September 2008 17:07 GMT
Similarly just a matter of time, #
Until IBM starts producing PCs again... oh wait, weren't they already kinda doing that but not really because of the non-compete clause in the deal that shaf... sold their PC division to Lenovo?
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