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   Doubtful

   

   RJD, Dec 7th, 2004 @ 12:00pm

   
   

   Doesn't make much sense. IBM has little to no interest in the consumer space and while Apple's enterprise offerings are intriguing from a cost/performance stance, IBM looks at big customers, not SMBs.
   
   And some how those blue pin stripe suits and pink ipods don't seem to belong in the same plane of reality much less the same business.

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   Re: Doubtful

   

   Rajesh, Dec 7th, 2004 @ 12:23pm

   
   

   I suspect the IBM PC divestment is all about their planned transition to Linux (reported earlier this year http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1429340,00.asp) and finally getting to eat their own dogfood (all that jazz about utility computing http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5070073.html). If anything, Apple can benefit if IBM transitions all their microprocessing needs for the Linux/utility computing to the Power 5+ platform (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/26/ibm_power5_moores_law/) from x86 and starts to push the performance envelope for Apple's desktop/laptop's products.

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   Re: Doubtful

   

   DLR, Dec 7th, 2004 @ 12:44pm

   
   

   "...blue pinstripe suits..."
   
   It looks like it's been a couple of decades since you've dealt with IBM.

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   Re: Doubtful

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 7th, 2004 @ 1:29pm

   
   

   Yeah, now it's all irritating twenty-somethings talking in sentence fragments and dropping laptops.

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   Anonymous Coward, Dec 7th, 2004 @ 4:48pm

   
   

   sounds like someone is trying to get ibm shares to go up in value by saying that its acquiring apple.

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   Stock Prices And Dress Codes

   

   Steve Mueller, Dec 7th, 2004 @ 11:21pm

   
   

   If anything, I think Apple's stock would go up on the rumor more than IBM's.

   As for dress, I worked at IBM in San Jose from 1983 through 1995. I wore a blue pinstripe suit my first day there and my boss asked if I was bucking for manager already. That was the last time I wore a suit unless I had to (like customer meetings).

   Granted, I was a software developer, but the culture for techies was definitely casual. I even wore an Apple sweater a few times that I had conned the Apple company store into selling me.

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