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January 19 news, IBM today announced fiscal 2010 fourth quarter and full year earnings. Report, IBM fourth-quarter revenue of 290 billion U.S. dollars, up 7% over last year, setting a historical record; net profit of 5.257 billion U.S. dollars, up 9.2% over last year, also a record high. Affected, IBM shares rose nearly 3% after-hours, breaking 52-week high price.

Ended December 31, 2010 in the quarter, IBM’s net profit of $ 5,257,000,000, $ 4.18 per diluted share, this performance better than last year. The fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, IBM’s net profit 4.813 billion U.S. dollars, earnings per share of $ 3.59.

Showed a profit, IBM fourth-quarter revenue of 290 billion U.S. dollars, adjusted by exchange rate movements than the 27.2 billion U.S. dollars last year grew by 7%. IBM fourth-quarter gross margin of 49% over the same period last year, an increase of 0.8 percentage points james bond omega watches. IBM fourth-quarter results exceeded analyst expectations, Thomson Reuters survey, analysts had expected IBM fourth-quarter earnings per share $ 4.08 on revenue of 283 billion.

In accordance with the geographical division, IBM Americas region fourth quarter, revenue from 122 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 9% (included in the impact of exchange rate changes as an increase of 9%); from Europe, the Middle East and Africa revenues 9.5 billion, down 2% (included in the impact of exchange rate changes as an increase of 4%); from the Asia-Pacific region was 6.6 billion in revenue, an increase of 14% (impact of exchange rate changes included an increase of 7% .) IBM OEM fourth quarter revenue of 7.84 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 21%.

Fourth quarter of 2010, IBM Global Technology Services revenue of 102 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 1% (included in the exchange rate changes, as an increase of 1%); IBM Global Business Services revenue was 48 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 4 % (included in the exchange rate changes as an increase of 4%). IBM signed the fourth quarter were 22.1 billion worth of service contracts, an increase of 18% (included in the exchange rate changes as an increase of 18%), of which 19 contracts worth over 100 million U.S. dollars one. IBM Systems and Technology Group revenue for the fourth quarter of departments 6.3 billion omega watches uk, an increase of 21% (included in the exchange rate changes as an increase of 22%). IBM Software Group fourth-quarter revenue of 70 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 7% (included in the exchange rate changes as an increase of 8%). IBM global financial sector fourth-quarter revenue was 6.28 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 1% (included in the exchange rate changes as an increase of 1%).

In the 2010 fiscal year, IBM net profit of 14.83 billion U.S. dollars, earnings per share $ 11.52, this performance better than last year. In fiscal 2009, IBM net profit of 13.43 billion U.S. dollars, earnings per share of $ 10.01. IBM annual revenue of 999 billion dollars, 95.8 billion U.S. dollars last year an increase of 4% (included in the exchange rate changes as an increase of 3%); not included in the PLM (PLM) business unit, IBM fourth-quarter revenue an increase of 5% (included in the exchange rate changes as an increase of 4%). One, IBM Global Technology Services revenue was 382 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 2% (included in the exchange rate changes as an increase of 1%); Global Business Services revenue was 18.2 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 3% (included in the exchange rate changes affect an increase of 2%); software sector revenue to 22.5 billion U.S. dollars omega watches on sale, an increase of 5% (included in the exchange rate changes as an increase of 5%); Systems and Technology Group segment revenue of 180 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 11 % (included in the exchange rate changes as an increase of 11%); global financial sector revenue of 2.2 billion, an increase of 3% (included in the exchange rate changes as an increase of 4%). IBM gross profit margin was 46.1%, higher than 45.7% in fiscal 2009.

In accordance with the geographical division, IBM2010 fiscal year revenues from the Americas 420 million, an increase of 5% (included in the impact of exchange rate changes as an increase of 3%); from Europe, the Middle East and Africa revenue was 31.9 billion U.S. dollars, down 2% (included in the impact of exchange rate changes as an increase of 1%); from the Asia Pacific region revenues of 232 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 12% (included in the impact of exchange rate changes as an increase of 5%). IBM OEM fourth quarter revenue of 2.8 billion, an increase of 23%.

IBM expects fiscal 2011 earnings per share of $ 12.56 or more, and also reiterated the previous target, which in 2015 earnings per share of about 20 U.S. dollars.

The same day, IBM shares on the New York Stock Exchange, rose $ 0.65 in regular trading to close at $ 150.65, or 0.43%. In the ensuing at 16:45 U.S. Eastern Time (Beijing time at 5:45 on the 19th) after-hours trading, IBM shares rose another $ 4.11 to $ 154.76, or 2.73%. Over the past 52 weeks, IBM the highest price for $ 151.46, the lowest is $ 116.00.

According to foreign media reports, Oracle’s acquisition of wireless broadband connectivity server and storage system components manufacturer Mellanox Technologies 10.2% of the company’s stock.

Mellanox’s wireless broadband technology is now used Oracle’s high-performance applications, including data and and Exalogic Exadata major application servers.

Oracle will be pushing the initiative suggests the wireless broadband technology.

Mellanox is an Israeli company, there are rumors in recent weeks their will be acquired by Oracle.

Oracle said the purchase of stock “for investment purposes only, to strengthen the future of wireless broadband on the edge,” Oracle said in a statement, “Oracle has no plans for a hostile takeover of Mellanox.”

While Oracle’s Solaris is Mellanox’s “core operating system support”, but the company plans to continue and other hardware vendors such as HP and IBM to cooperate.

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HP and Oracle reconciliation is only superficial, the real war broke out. Oracle founder Larry Ellison in particular, recently boasted want to buy chip company, which started out red chariot rapid Hurricane.

Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd’s predecessor, was appointed as Oracle’s CEO, because of the existence of competition, less than 24 hours later, HP filed a lawsuit to stop the appointment. September 21, Hewlett-Packard to withdraw complaint, the two sides reach a settlement. Oracle c Larry Ellison said: “Oracle and HP will continue to build and expand more than 25 years has maintained cooperative relations.” But clearly, both from the point of view Ellison’s character, or was he not stop view the acquisition of tanks, Oracle and HP will not have had the intimate cooperation, both sides face increasing competition. Of course, Oracle’s competition is not only directed at HP, even IBM, Intel, Dell.

IBM, HP, Intel, Dell and other companies started to hardware, and Microsoft, the main brands are in blue tone, started from the Oracle software business is usual bright red. Starting from the acquisition of SUN, Oracle entered the hardware from the field of high-end server to Oracle’s distinctive red logo to represent the beginning and Hewlett-Packard, IBM Blue camp a positive conflict.

September 8, according to foreign media reports, former HP CEO named Oracle as the co-president of Hurd, HP prosecution Hart, to prevent him from working at rival Oracle.

Tuesday, a California court accepted the prosecution from HP. A day earlier, Oracle’s appointment as co-president of Hart, in their areas of expertise to compete with HP.

HP said Hurd joined the Oracle, is bound to breach confidentiality before the signing of an agreement with Hewlett-Packard, it would be HP’s “most valuable trade secrets and confidential information at risk.” Alleged that the confidentiality agreement is worth 40 million U.S. dollars in severance pay part of the terms, the purpose is to protect HP’s trade secrets and confidential information, Hewlett-Packard plans to implement the agreement.

HP said in the lawsuit, Hart was responsible for developing a strategic plan, and participated in the Oracle a competitive advantage for HP, “highly confidential” analysis.

The battle suit that the two companies are deepening. HP and Oracle have a partner, now has competition in the market with.

Hurd, 53, on suspicion of sexual harassment, resigned from the HP CEO post. Although the survey results show that sexual harassment does not hold, but he violated HP’s “business code of conduct.”

Joining Oracle, Hurd said: “I believe the strategic combination of Oracle’s software and hardware will make it in the enterprise server and storage beat IBM.”

It is understood that another co-president of Oracle, Charles – Phillips, outgoing, and from the Board.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1 early morning news, according to foreign media reports, last Wednesday IBM security research team published a major software maker of software security vulnerabilities on their own repair reports, and gain a position.

Rankings, IBM’s own software, 29% of the “critical” and “high” risk has not been fixed, for the major software vendors in the worst performance. And Google are both ranked in the best performance, so that all the open holes (including the critical and high-risk vulnerabilities) have timely patches.

The report published twice a year, mainly to track within six months the major software vulnerabilities and hacker attack exploited the situation, while the major software vendors to fix known vulnerabilities were investigated and ranked by the survey, including Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Cisco and IBM own and so on.

The survey found that Microsoft first half of 2010, 23% of known software vulnerabilities have not been repaired, ranking first in the major software vendors, followed by Mozilla (Mozilla) of 17%, Apple 12%, IBM Sun 9% and 8%.

In the known “critical” and “high” risk ratio is not fixed, IBM in the first half of the figure as high as 29%, the highest ranking, followed by Oracle’s 22%, Novell 10%, 7% of Microsoft and HP’s 5%.

However, IBM in this survey did not distinguish between the use of loopholes and cyber crime from the security researchers discovered vulnerabilities. In fact, the survey most of the loopholes in the statistics is the so-called “white hat” hackers discovered, they will not use loopholes to attack, but only make the software more secure.

Reported, such investigation report urged the major software vendors are often able to fix known vulnerabilities in its software so as to enhance software security.

IBM said the industry research firm IDC put it ranked as the world’s first middleware software vendors, more than its nearest rival Oracle.

According to IDC, said, IBM in 2009, is the leading application deployment software vendor revenue market share of 31.9%. The market share of its nearest competitor nearly double Oracle. IDC’s study also shows, IBM’s middleware software business in 2009, sales rose 4.7%, twice the growth rate of the whole market. 2009 global sales of middleware software market revenues of more than 148 billion U.S. dollars, a growth rate of 2.2%.

This is a middleware software market for 10 consecutive years of growth. IDC to IBM as a global application deployment software market share leader.

IDC’s report also pointed out that, in addition to the overall lead in addition, IBM in application server software platforms and middleware integration and process automation software market and other key segments of the market also ranked first. For example, process automation middleware software segment in 2009 increased by 4.8%. IBM ranked first in this market, accounting for 16% market share, growth rate of more than 16.5%.

According to IDC, said, IBM, including Enterprise Service Bus / connectivity continue in other areas, including leadership, or even to promote the application server middleware, software and other middleware software market growth.

At the same time, IDC is not the only one to IBM Such a positioning of the company. IDC’s report reflected the market research firm Gartner recently published a research report. Gartner’s report also the middleware software market, IBM ranked as one of the manufacturers. As IBM Chairman Samuel Palmisano (Sam Palmisano) often pointed out, IBM’s software portfolio is built around high-value areas of high growth and established. These include business analysis, business process management and data center management. IBM provides software to help customers build a more valuable strategic IT systems seems to be paying off. IBM in this regard over the past 10 years, sales doubled, profits increased threefold. IBM’s software only in 2009 sales reached 22 billion U.S. dollars, profits of 80 billion.

Moreover, IBM said in the past 18 months, IBM has received more than 450 customers from migrating to IBM middleware software, Oracle software order. IBM said that in the past quarter, more than 100 original Sun Microsystems customers transferred to IBM. Since IBM and Oracle to continue to compete in this market, these statements and the IDC and Gartner released the rankings seems to be an open challenge to Oracle’s proposed information.