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IBM Sells Server Business to Lenovo for $2.3 Billion

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jan 23, 2014

IBM is getting out of the low-end x86 server business.

IBMs System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, x86-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers portfolios are all being sold to Lenovo for the tidy sum of $2.3 Billion.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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