Entered the company of " Lenovo " (Lenovo) and " IBM " (IBM) on Thursday in the final agreement , plans whereby the first acquisition of a work of recent private servers with architectural 86x, and so , in a deal estimated at 2.3 billion U.S. Dollars, and in one of the largest transactions held by the IT company in China so far.
Under the deal, " Lenovo " for the U.S. Company the amount of two billion dollars in cash and the rest remains as stock with the Chinese company , this is based on the agreement to the long-term cooperation initiated by the two companies in 2005 when it acquired " Lenovo " on the work computers of " IBM " , which included a series personal Computers " ThinkPad " (ThinkPad).
The company " IBM " will continue to develop its software for my system running "Windows " and " Linux " and allocated to the platform architecture 86x, to take charge of " Lenovo " the task of distributing the company's products other American , such as storage systems and cloud storage and intelligent software.
After the closing of the transaction , will assume the " Lenovo " customer service operations and related maintenance . It will also contain " IBM " provide maintenance service delivery, and so on behalf of the " Lenovo " For a long period of time, so you will not see the customer only a slight change in the technical support service of their own, are also expected to get nearly 7,500 employees of " IBM " around the world , a job offer with " Lenovo " .
It should be noted that the agreement that comes after the announcement of " IBM " recently announced its intention to invest more than a billion dollars in " group and Watson, IBM " (IBM Watson Group) New, in addition to 1.2 billion U.S. Dollars to expand its presence in the field of cloud computing around the world , and through the establishment of 40 centers of data in 15 countries across the five continents of the world .
