It's finally announced, so assuming the USG doesn't block it on security (or other) grounds...
http://www.lenovo.com/ww/lenovo/pdf/announcement/E_099220140123a.pdf # Subject to the terms and conditions of the Master Asset Purchase # Agreement, the Company will acquire certain assets (the “Transferred # Assets”) which include, among other things, the following assets at # the Initial Closing and Subsequent Closings: # # (a) certain enumerated hardware products (including “System x”, # “BladeCenter”, “Blade”, “Flex System”, “Pure Flex” products and # system networking products including “Blade Network Technology” # and certain other related tangible properties); # (b) certain intellectual property rights in connection with the Business; # (c) certain transferred contracts that are related to the Business; and # (d) inventory of the Business consisting of System x products, including # the “System x”, “BladeCenter”, “Blade”, “Flex System” and “Pure Flex” # products and certain other system networking products including # “Blade Network Technology”. The company who invented the PC is finally getting out of the PC business entirely for US$2.3B.. -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
