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 ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- IBM Corp. has signed a three-year, $5 billion agreement for California-based Sanmina-SCI Corp. to take over production of IBM's NetVista desktop computers, the companies announced ...

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 ...

Controversial in its day, Desktop IV proved indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts could give agencies a vehicle to buy large quantities of hardware in a streamlined fashion. If ever there ...

IBM is thinking differently about desktop PCs. The company will introduce on Wednesday a new line of desktops for businesses called ThinkCentre, following the company's "Think" vision for PCs, that ...

Sun Microsystems, in a somewhat sarcastic open letter to IBM posted on Sun’s Web site, is inviting Big Blue to purchase Sun’s Linux-based Sun Java Desktop System for IBM’s own employees. In a letter ...

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.

IBM Research is experimenting with a chameleon-like computing device called the Meta Pad, designed to easily convert from a desktop machine to a handheld to a notebook and back again. Representatives ...

IBM is trying to hit Microsoft where it hurts, with a new offering designed to lure customers away from Windows 7. IBM is trying to hit Microsoft where it hurts, with a new offering designed to lure ...

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 ...

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 — ...