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IBM to announce update to Unix server line.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2004

By Crayton Harrison, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 13--AUSTIN, Texas -- International Business Machines Corp. plans to announce a significant update to its Unix server line today, hoping to extend its comeback in a market it had considered exiting in the late 1990s.

New York-based IBM's server runs on the company's new Power 5 processors, supercharged chips developed mainly in its Austin research centers.

IBM's new products could help it grab a bigger piece of the $17 billion market for servers that run on the business-friendly Unix operating system. Last year, IBM had a 25 percent share of the market, up from as little as 11 percent in the late '90s, according to research firm Gartner Inc.

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