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'''International Business Machines''' (Commonly known as '''IBM''') is a large American computer technology and consulting company, founded in 1889.  Although the Term "IBM compatible" is widely used to indicate that a [[computer]] can use the [[Microsoft Windows]] Operating System, the personal computer manufacturing arm of IBM was sold to a Chinese company [[Lenovo]] in 2005.  IBM currently sells computer hardware and software, but now also has infrastructure and consulting services for other businesses. IBM is also a strong advocate<ref>[http://www-03.ibm.com/linux/ IBM and Linux]</ref> for the [[GNU]]/[[Linux]] operating system.

'''International Business Machines''' (Commonly known as '''IBM''') is a large American computer technology and consulting company, founded in 1889.  Although the Term "IBM compatible" is widely used to indicate that a [[computer]] can use the [[Microsoft Windows]] Operating System, the personal computer manufacturing arm of IBM was sold to the Chinese company [[Lenovo]] in 2005 in return giving IBM an 18.9% ownership stake in Lenovo Group which makes IBM the second largest shareholder following the Chinese government<ref>[http://www.idc.com/about/iw_lenovo_acquires_ibm_pc.jsp Lenovo Acquires IBM's Personal Computing Division]</ref>.  This move gave IBM a crucial foothold in the very large Chinese IT market.  IBM currently sells computer hardware and software while continuing to offer infrastructure and consulting services for other businesses.

 

IBM is also a strong advocate<ref>[http://www-03.ibm.com/linux/ IBM and Linux]</ref> for the [[GNU]]/[[Linux]] operating system. This advocacy followed on the heels of IBM's failure to gain wide acceptance for its' [[OS/2]] personal desktop operating system. In 2005 IBM stated that [[OS/2]] users should consider migration to Linux<ref>[http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/warp/migration.html OS/2 Warp Upgrades and migrations]</ref>. Some [[OS/2]] users and marketers created a rebranded [[OS/2]] called [[eComStation]] with the permission of IBM. The [[eComStation]] operating system runs previous [[OS/2]] applications as well as new applications ported from [[Open Source]] projects. Further development of [[eComStation]] continues by third parties to keep [[eComStation]] running on newer hardware.

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==External Links==

==External Links==

[http://www.ibm.com/ IBM]<br />

[http://www.ibm.com/ IBM]<br />

[http://www.lenovo.com/ Lenovo]

[http://www.lenovo.com/ Lenovo]<br />

[http://www.ecomstation.com/ eComStation]

[[category:industry]]

[[category:industry]]

[[category:computers]]

[[category:computers]]