Chinese Computer Firm-IBM Get Security OK

Excite News ^ | 9 March 2005 | Eric Auchard

[ShadowAce]

Lenovo / IBM Ping!

[snowsislander]

Also, the CNET version of this story is here.

[ShadowAce]

Admin,
If you think that my post is a duplicate of the CNet post, please pull mine.

Thanks!

[Golden Eagle]

Disgusting sellout to the Chicoms by IBM. Previous thoughts here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1349045/posts

[ShadowAce]

I agree with you on this point. While IBM was losing money with this division, selling it to the Chinese is a mistake.

[Golden Eagle]

IBM wasn't losing money anymore, the booming PC business was recently bringing them a profit.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1349045/posts?page=11#11

But they still wanted to partner with the Chicom government so bad, they sold them a $10 billion dollar/year business for under $2 billion total.

They should at least make them strip the IBM name off those systems, so unsuspecting buyers have a chance to know the profits are going to the Chinese government now.

[Golden Eagle]

You can pop your champagne bottle now. Won't it be great when the Chicom government starts stealing PC sales from Dell and HP around the world. Who cares, they're just old dinosaurs that need to die. /SARCASM

[Golden Eagle]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=apcdMaiF7K20

Congress members will probably receive a briefing from the U.S. Treasury Department within a week, said Rich Carter, a spokesman for Representative Don Manzullo, a Republican from Illinois.

``My boss has economic concerns about IBM selling its personal computing division to a company owned by the Chinese government,'' Carter said. ``Based on the fact that China doesn't always play by the rules, such as manipulating its currency and subsidizing companies, it could give Lenovo an unfair advantage.''

Lenovo is controlled by Legend Group, which was established in 1984 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a government institution.

[Nick Danger]

Hey, you got what you wanted. The oversight committee looked over the deal. No more FUD for you, sorry.

Industry experts say that underlying the cross-border combination of the two companies is a belated recognition of the fact that most PCs -- including IBM's machines -- are already largely manufactured in the greater China region.

...which is what everybody said at the beginning. There's nothing here, Eagle. Go find some different FUD.

[Golden Eagle]

PC's labled "IBM" = Chinese Government Product

Do something worthwhile for once, and get the word out.

[Nick Danger]

Maybe it's IBM's Secret Plan to get their stuff on the shelves at Wal*Mart.

[Golden Eagle]

Maybe it's IBM's Secret Plan to get their stuff on the shelves at Wal*Mart.

Amazing how far they have fallen. From the standard of engineering excellence, to chinese junk.

[nonliberal]

Asked if IBM could retain U.S. military and other national security agencies as PC customers, Ward said there were no restrictions on the new Lenovo and it would be free to do business with U.S. government agencies. "We can do business with anyone we want to do business with," he said.

Who the hell is running this country? Doesn't anyone else see a problem with this?

[ShadowAce]

Doesn't anyone else see a problem with this?

Yeah--it's why I posted it.

[nonliberal]

If you are against this sale then you are far too intelligent to be working in government. This borders on treason.

[dljordan]

" Amazing how far they have fallen. From the standard of engineering excellence, to chinese junk."

There was never any doubt in my mind that this would go through. Too much money flying around to stop it. I just recieved an email from the company telling me how my division didn't meet it's goals this year even though we made billions for them. Subsequently we won't be getting any performance bonus although the CEO somehow managed to meet his requirements to get an 8 million dollar raise.

[Golden Eagle]

Thanks, I can only imagine your frustration working for them, when I'm seething only as a customer of theirs. Former customer, at this point.

Amazing the CEO is getting such rewards. These two scathing pieces on Forbes recently had little good to say.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/02/24/cz_dl_ibm.html

http://www.forbes.com/enterprisetech/2005/02/24/cz_dl_0224ibmsidebar.html

[Nick Danger]

Microsoft Internet Explorer is reported prone to a remote buffer overflow vulnerability.

This issue presents itself when the application handles a malformed CSS file.

A typical attack would involve the attacker creating a Web site that includes the malicious CSS file. The attacker may then entice a vulnerable user to visit the site. If successful, this attack may result in granting the attacker unauthorized access to the affected computer in the context of the user running Internet Explorer.

[Golden Eagle]

LOL, anything but have to deal with these.

http://csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/2001/03/01/p16s1.htm

http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/export/news/980731-doj.htm

http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,119476,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp

http://www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/Bulletins/tim98-1-5.html

http://biz.yahoo.com/law/050302/ac2fb10a4fd26a6eeeaa97d682ca0c71_1.html