Editors' picks: IBM stories around the Web
June 14, 2004
In a remarkable turnaround story, IBM has regained its status as a leader in the field it helped create but faces unprecedented challenges. These are some of the more interesting news reports, interviews and columns about Big Blue's transformation from around the Web. See News.com's special report on the company's evolution.
[The bigger picture]
Can IBM get great again?
Fortune
Sam Palmisano has reason to feel good. By the time he became CEO, revenues were down a whopping $5 billion and still declining. Things now appear to be straightening out dramatically.
Down on the server farm CFO AsiaThe new Blue BusinessWeek
Is Big Blue the Next Big Thing? The Economist
The new agenda IBM Webcast
The Palmisano regime
IBM shuffles top executives after one departs
The Wall Street Journal (subscription site)IBM names a new chief financial officer and shuffles two of its most powerful executives. A person familiar with the situation says some of the moves were already in the works as part of an effort by Chief Executive Samuel Palmisano to shake things up.
Exclusive interview: Sam Palmisano The Chief Executive Group Palmisano: IBM will top industry Forbes
Sam speaks Forbes
Big Blue's big bet: less tech, more touch The New York Times (archived article)
Sam Palmisano CRN
Along enemy lines
A Big Blue gauntlet for Microsoft
BusinessWeekIBM's new Workplace just might succeed where so many earlier attempts have failed: getting complex software off the desktop.
IBM to launch Microsoft software bypass The Financial Times Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu to develop computers jointly The Wall Street Journal (subscription site)
Storage wars Barron's Online (subscription site)
Unixed The Economist
Expanding the empire
Napster, IBM unveil new music delivery system
ReutersOnline music service Napster unveiled an application using IBM technology to help universities and other customers save computing bandwidth and money.
IBM extends Virtual Innovation Center to hardware eChannelLine U.S. moves to build top supercomputer Associated Press
IBM unfolds service-oriented architecture offerings Computerworld
Executive presentations IBM Webcast
The brains behind Big Blue
Brains for sale
Fast CompanyOver the past two years, IBM has increasingly been using its gray cells to sell, pulling its scientists out of their research labs and sending them on client calls.
The unfolding saga of the Web Wired News Big Blue to expand viewpoint San Francisco Chronicle
IBM examines how inventors invent Associated Press
