IBM Beats HP for Computing Deal with Lego

From: John Smith (a_at_nonymous.com)
Date: 08/12/03 

Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 23:20:34 GMT

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IBM Beats HP for Computing Deal with Lego
Mon Aug 11,12:55 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM Monday said it signed a technology deal with
Danish toy maker Lego Co. in which it will replace systems from
competitor Hewlett-Packard Co. with pay-as-you-go computing that it
said will cut Lego's costs during the holiday season.

International Business Machines Corp. did not disclose terms of the
deal, which involves about 30 computer servers and some data storage
systems.

Competition between HP and IBM heated up after HP bought Compaq
Computer last year and as corporations have cut their technology
budgets due to the weak economy.

HP said this was **one of a "handful" of contract losses related to
the Compaq Alpha server**, which is based on proprietary Compaq
technology that was being phased out even before HP bought the
company.

"We win some, they win some," an HP spokeswoman said, adding that HP
recently won a computer server contract over IBM with the China State
Tax Authority.

IBM and Lego in a joint statement said the toy company would replace
230 Hewlett-Packard computers with six large computers from IBM that
run on IBM chips and the popular Unix (news - web sites) operating
system, 24 computers based on microprocessors from Intel Corp. and
four very large data storage machines.

IBM has been pushing its "on-demand" computing model since last year
when Samuel Palmisano took over as chief executive officer. IBM says
companies can save money by paying for only as much computing as they
use.

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So the question is......how many new Alpha customers and Alpha systems
sold did HP add to their customer base today to replace Lego as a
customer and install count?....oh ***...back to the advertising and
marketing issue again....

...just waiting for Fred and Rob to jump on my back for this one

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