As the IT world digests the fact that IBM has, according to the New York Times, put its PC division up for sale, another set of speculation revs up.
No, not the fact that the rumored potential buyer is Chinese company Lenovo, nor the cruel related joke that many old IBMers caught in the sold PC division would quickly will appear on a Chinese take-away menu, thereby helping fix IBM's embarrassing pension funding problems.
Instead, an even better and more audacious speculation is that once publicly free of the PC division IBM will either buy, or form a close joint venture with Apple to sell its PCs, which coincidentally are now built around IBM's PowerPC chip. Link.
Curious. I wonder how this would effect the Austin divisions of both companies?
Posted by sarah at December 6, 2004 12:19 PM | TrackBack