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channelinsider.com - 3/30/2009
IBM Chief to Partners: Get Smarter
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CEO Sam Palmisano is pushing Big Blues vision for building a 'Smarter Planet' and is now committing to making IBM's 100,000 solution provider partners a part of that vision. - IBM has been making a lot of marketing noise lately about making the planet smarter, ranging from complex undertakings ...
online.wsj.com - 4/5/2009
IBM Talks Teeter as Sun Board Splits
— online.wsj.com — Talks between International Business Machines Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. were on the verge of unraveling Sunday,... threatening a potential $7 billion acquisition that would place one of Silicon Valley's iconic companies under the Big Blue ... (more) IBM Talks Teeter as Sun Board Splits

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online.wsj.com - 4/2/2009
IBM Near Deal to Buy Sun for Lower Price
— online.wsj.com — International Business Machines Corp. and Sun Microsystems Corp. are in the final stages of negotiations to combine... the two corporate computer giants. The companies are now discussing a deal in which IBM would pay $9.55 a share for Sun, about ... (more) IBM Near Deal to Buy Sun for Lower Price

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forbes.com - 4/3/2009
IBM And Sun: There Will Be Blood
— forbes.com — When titans collide, blood runs. And as rumors circulated Friday that IBM and Sun Microsystems are inching... toward a deal to sell the Silicon Valley computing pioneer to Big Blue for close to $7 billion, IT industry watchers began speculating on how ... (more) IBM And Sun: There Will Be Blood

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IBM Chief to Partners: Get Smarter
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... Furthermore, IBM is committed to making the mounds of business intelligence data that it collects through its IBM Global Services unit available to partners as part of a global effort to make IT a digital engine that will transform the global economy. Click here to read the full story

Five Technologies Tim O'Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0
ReadWriteWeb — ... Last week IBM announced that it would make bringing its channel partners into the Smarter Planet project a major priority and that it will be sharing the huge amounts of data it collects through the initiatives with channel partners as well. ...

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