IBM may discontinue its last x86 line

SOUTH AMERICAN TECH NEWS site ChileHardware (CHW) has said that IBM will be discontinuing its x86 servers.

CHW claims that this information comes from an inside source at IBM, but caution that it is only a rumour.

If IBM does discontinue its Series X, it will mean that the company will be abandoning its Small Enterprise business altogether, and will stop selling servers with Windows.

The rumour is that by dumping the X line, IBM would be free to focus more on two of its more lucrative business segments: services and higher-level servers in the P and Z series.

The INQ contacted IBM for a comment, and after being fobbed off and ignored all morning, a UK spokesman finally told us: "It’s IBM’s policy not to comment on rumour and speculation."

Must be true then. µ

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