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IBM Names Palmisano As New Chief Executive
News Sam Palmisano will become IBM's chief executive 1 March, succeeding Lou Gerstner, the company said on Tuesday. Over the last decade, Sam Palmisano has taken on a number of IBM's most significant challenges, from building the services business to...
[January 30, 2002, 8:59]
IBM Triples Investment In India
News India and other emerging economies are an increasingly important part of IBM's global success," said Sam Palmisano, the firm's chairman and chief executive, speaking in Bangalore. Palmisano indicated that IBM plans to use some of its $6bn...
[June 6, 2006, 15:05]
IBM's Future Lies In Grids, Says New Chief Exec
News A new era of computing based on continually active computing grids has begun, and Big Blue is positioned to take a lead in it, said IBM's Sam Palmisano. Making his first major public appearance since being appointed IBM's chief executive-to-be...
[February 21, 2002, 11:30]
IBM Boss Spells Out A Better Future
News The normally taciturn Sam Palmisano, the chief executive of IBM, aligned himself this week with those who predict a backlash against large multinational companies, such as IBM itself. In what the Financial Times described as "a rare public...
[June 12, 2006, 16:45]
Palmisano Takes The Reins At IBM Server Group
News IBM Global Services chief Sam Palmisano will take over as head of Big Blue's server division, replacing Robert Stephenson, who is retiring. Palmisano, 48, is widely credited with not only maintaining the prestige of IBM's services arm but...
[September 21, 1999, 16:03]
IBM Transforms Its Supply Chain To Drive Growth
White Papers In 2002, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano centralized all of IBM's internal supply chain functions, from engineering to customer service, under the new Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) unit. To carry out four supply chain transformation imperatives that bolster...
[April 26, 2005, 3:00]
Palmisano Sheds Light On IBM's Path
News IBM chief executive Sam Palmisano told Wall Street analysts that the company needs to cut costs and become more efficient, but declined to discuss expected job cuts. We now have an equation for our PC business that we think is sustainable...
[May 17, 2002, 7:32]
IBM: Replacement Cycle Is Headed For The Scrapheap
News The technology replacement cycle -- the frenzied buying spree that the tech industry has come to count on every few years -- is being driven to the tar pits by on-demand computing, said IBM chief executive Sam Palmisano.
[May 15, 2003, 7:50]
SCO: IBM Has 'failed To Comply'
News In its motion, SCO said IBM has provided "only a limited number of well-filtered documents" from chief executive Sam Palmisano and nothing from Irving Wladawsky-Berger, the executive responsible for launching IBM's push.
[July 12, 2004, 9:25]
Sun Attacks IBM's Linux Strategy
News Schwartz's memo, entitled Free advice for Sam Palmisano on IBM's desktop options, refers to a story broken earlier this year in which a leaked IBM memo appeared to show the company was committed to a wholesale internal migration to desktop Linux.
[January 22, 2004, 12:50]
IBM Tops Earnings Targets
News We continued to gain share in our core businesses and managed our company very well in a tough environment," chief executive Sam Palmisano said. Palmisano noted that the company had strengthened its software offering through a number of...
[January 17, 2003, 10:16]
IBM Details On-demand Picture
News IBM chairman and chief executive Sam Palmisano admitted during his keynote speech on Monday that the company has had trouble getting the rest of the industry to understand on-demand. When we first rolled it out, there was a lot of confusion around...
[March 3, 2004, 9:25]
LinuxWorld Shows Software Entering Adulthood
News The standard bearer for the new Linux reality is IBM, in particular president Sam Palmisano. A year ago, Palmisano pushed Big Blue to its current position as one of the loudest and most determined Linux advocates, with the company spreading Linux...
[January 30, 2001, 11:07]
IBM's Profits Fall
News The warning also marks a rough start for chief executive Sam Palmisano, who took over the top spot last month, replacing Lou Gerstner, who had been chief executive since 1993. Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich said in a research note that...
[April 8, 2002, 15:33]
IBM Begins Layoffs
News The layoffs come as no surprise after IBM chief executive Sam Palmisano told Wall Street analysts last week that the company needed to cut costs. Palmisano became IBM's chief executive in March. We know it," Palmisano told attendees at the company...
[May 24, 2002, 14:29]
LinuxWorld To Have A Big Blue Tinge
News IBM president Sam Palmisano will deliver the opening remarks at the show, which is being held at the Javits Convention Centre in New York this week. Palmisano is expected to speak about a Linux customer win during his keynote address.
[January 31, 2001, 14:43]
IBM Talks Of 10,000 New Jobs
News Although IBM has been cutting jobs, chief executive Sam Palmisano indicated that the company is also looking to add positions. We are beginning to see signs that the economy has stabilised," Palmisano said in a statement.
[October 16, 2003, 14:35]
IBM Leads Linux-desktop Charge
News A November memo from CIO Bob Greenberg said IBM chairman Sam Palmisano has "challenged the IT organisation, and indeed all of IBM, to move to a Linux-based desktop before the end of 2005. IBM's chief information officer has directed the company to...
[January 9, 2004, 8:15]
IBM Offers SMEs 'computing On Demand'
News Big Blue is making a big bet on the model, setting up a new on-demand computing group and committing to spending $10bn on research and development, company initiatives and acquisitions, chief executive Sam Palmisano said recently.
[November 13, 2002, 8:16]
Judge Opens Up Unix Code For SCO
News During this discovery phase of the trial, SCO also has sought testimony on IBM's Linux strategy from Chief Executive Sam Palmisano and other top executives, but Wells postponed a decision on whether IBM must comply until after the company files...
[January 20, 2005, 14:20]
