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Re:Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion by astrodust on Thursday January 23, 2014 @01:44PM (#7110169)
Obviously my data is anecdotal, but I really haven't seen much IBM hardware deployed in communal datacentres (e.g. Peer1 or similar).

If IBM's selling that kind of volume, it could be to governments and other large enterprises with private datacentres.

Then again, that's revenue, so for every IBM server there could be five commodity Dell units in the rack and they'd have the same net cost.

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Re:Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion by iends on Thursday January 23, 2014 @02:01PM (#7110309)
This is true, and I believe you are exactly correct. IBM is catering to private data centers and not ones that you or I would be renting a rack in.
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