IBM is choosing its battles, and manufacturing desktop PCs isn't one of them. The company said Tuesday that it will outsource production of its NetVista desktop PC line to Sanmina-SCI under a ...

IBM's other Linux shoe could drop Monday, as Big Blue is expected to endorse the idea of Linux on desktop computers at a conference. Big Blue has heavily promoted the open-source operating system for ...

IBM on Thursday said it is working with Virtual Bridges and Canonical to develop a Ubuntu Linux-based solution with Lotus collaboration software to drive significant savings compared to Microsoft's ...

In two weeks, IBM Microelectronics plans to take the wraps off a 64-bit PowerPC chip at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose. However, big questions remain as to whether Apple Computer Inc. plans to ...

Big Blue has charted a course to revive its position in the PC market by developing software designed to substantially reduce the costs of managing desktops. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at ...

Contract manufacturer Sanmina-SCI Corp. said it will take over production of some IBM desktop computers in the United States and Europe in a $5-billion pact IBM said will cut its costs in the ...

NEW YORK -- After years of pushing its own technology outsourcing business, IBM Corp. made an about-face yesterday and hired a pair of contractors to assume some of its own assembly work. Armonk, N.Y.

IBM has designed a new set of services specifically for small and medium-size businesses that need help managing their desktop PCs and printers, the company announced Wednesday. The new suite, called ...

IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano has challenged his company to move to the Linux desktop over the next two years, according to an internal memo written by IBM CIO Bob Greenberg in November and ...

IBM on Monday introduced new services, dubbed Open Client, designed to make it easier for customers to run its Lotus collaboration software on a mixture of Windows and Linux desktop operating systems.

For most small to midsized businesses, software means Microsoft. For almost any category of business software — from word processing to spreadsheets, presentations to communication and collaboration — ...