Saturday, 23. November 2002
Topic: - on November 23, 2002 at 1:35:36 AM CET
The End of the Hardware Era?
For the past 50 years, IBM (IBM ) has perhaps been the biggest force on the planet in private-sector high-tech research. So it was no small thing when Big Blue announced on Nov. 20 that of the $17 billion it plans to spend on research and development in the next three years, a cool $1 billion will go specifically to innovations in technology services. A dedicated army of 200 R&D consultants will work with IBM's 3,000 other researchers to create new approaches to solving problems -- primarily via software.
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