OT - IBM buys Price

>From the NYT:

IBM announced yesterday that it planned to buy PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting for $3.5 billion. The move will accelerate I.B.M.'s shift from selling just computers and software toward a future of providing information technology to corporate customers as a utility-like service.

I.B.M.'s recovery from its deep troubles of the early 1990's has been based on taking advantage of its broad range of products and services to put technology together to solve the business problems of corporate customers. The services group has been the mechanism, and the marketer, for executing that strategy.

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