From: David Goldman (David_at_DGoldman.Com)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 16:44:02 EDT
Posted April 17, 2002 05:19 Pacific Time
IBM AND HITACHI are to pool their hard disk drive
businesses into a company majority-owned by Hitachi.
Lackluster results in IBM's hard disk drive (HDD)
business and a belief that other sectors of the
storage industry offer better growth opportunities led
IBM to the deal, it said.
Tokyo's Hitachi will pay IBM for a 70 percent stake in
the yet-to-be-formed company under the deal announced
Wednesday. The new company will be based in San Jose,
Calif., and draw its chief executive officer from
Hitachi.
For the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/17/020417hnimbhit.xml?0417wepm
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