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After selling off its PC business in December 2004, IBM's portfolio today covers servers, storage, software and services.

Still into mainframes, Big Blue announced in October this year that it will spend US$100 million over the next five years to make its technology easier to administer and program.

Big Blue also continues to enhance its software and services to capture a bigger piece of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) market.

Recently, the tech giant went on an acquisition spree of software companies--valued at more than US$3.6 billion--fueled by the computing industry's shift to SOA.

According to Reuters, IBM posted a 47 percent rise in quarterly profit, with revenue rising to US$22.6 billion from US$21.5 billion in the third quarter of this year, exceeding Wall Street expectations.

This company is listed in Systems, Storage Management, Software Infrastructure, Business Applications, Security, Services.

Financials
Fiscal year-end December FY06 FY05 FY04 FY03 FY02
Global full-year
revenue (US$millions)		 — 91,100.0 96,300.0 89,100.0 81,200.0
Global full-year net
income (US$millions)		 — 8,000.0 7,500.0 6,600.0 4,200.0

Average year-on-year revenue growth over 4 years 4.14 %
Average year-on-year net income growth over 4 years 25.82 %
Percentage of revenue from Asia —
Percentage of Asian revenues from channel —

Operations:
Founded USA/1924
First Asian office Philippines/1937
Global employees 320,000
Employees in Asia 90,000
Asian countries:
Total 10		 China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
Notes * Data correct as at September 2006. Information was compiled by ZDNet Asia from sources such as official reports, corporate Web sites, and Hoover's. ZDNet Asia strived to get the latest information but does not guarantee the correctness or completeness of the data. The information provided on this site is for general informational purposes only and is not an offer to buy or sell any securities.

ZDNet Asia's Top Tech Index will be next updated in 2008.


ZDNet Asia Top Tech categories
Systems | Networking and communications | Storage management | Security | Software Infrastructure | Services | Business applications | Internet services



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