Linux divisions

Posted by Mike on Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 30 views

Linus Torvalds released Linux on 5 October 1991, and by 1998 IBM was experimenting with it. In 2000 it was properly available on mainframes – along with the specialty processor IFL (Integrated Facility for Linux). The rest, as they say, is history.

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IBM net income jumps 9 percent

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 169 views

IBM’s second-quarter profits were up 9 percent from a year earlier, the company announced on Monday, with increased sales in the U.S. and Asia helping to offset weaker spending in Europe.

Net profit for the quarter ended June 30 was US$3.4 billion, or $2.61 per share, up from $3.1 billion, or $2.32 per share, in the same quarter last year, IBM said. Revenue was $23.7 billion, up 2 percent year over year.

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