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Enterprise tech wannabe Lenovo has carved its business into four divisions just a week after it coughed $2.3bn for IBM's x86 server biz, a deal which is awaiting approval from regulators. The Chinese firm created PC, Mobile, and Enterprise Groups as well as the slightly bizarrely named Ecosystem and Cloud Services unit, it …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Squeezing customers for cash

    "So basically Lenovo are trying to win over more customers in its homeland and squeeze more cash out of them."

    I'm glad that no American companies operate on this basis!

    Otherwise, companies would be trying to aggressively force a bunch of silly product upgrades onto their user base - like 8 different generations of iPhone in 7 years.

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  2. W. Anderson

    Lenovo could distinguish itself from HP and Dell by partnering "fully" with RedHat or Ubuntu Linux vendors, as examples, to provide superior - more reliable, powerful/scalable and secure - solutions and services, but with greater profit margins than comparable Microsoft Windows based kit,

    particularly for the high demand for Linux Virtualization and Cloud Computing Services.

    The company could only execute such program successfully, if all server, other hardware and support services offerngs were provided to the exact same or higher level of "completeness" as those provided for Windows. A "half-baked" or not fully committed approach would inevitable fail quite miserably.

    This is unlikely to happen however, given Lenovo's past positon of falling inline to the Microsoft drum march, much the same as HP, Dell and others, and therefore could not setLenovo apart from the OEM hardware "me-too" crowd.

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    1. Davidoff
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      Re: Lenovo could distinguish itself from HP and Dell...

      "...by partnering "fully" with RedHat or Ubuntu Linux vendors, as examples, to provide superior - more reliable, powerful/scalable and secure - solutions and services, but with greater profit margins than comparable Microsoft Windows based kit."

      Not sure what you're on about as HP already does that (their Linux support for their ProLiant servers is as good as it is for Windows, and they already partner with RedHat).

      And I'd take a ProLiant server over a Dell, IBM or Lenovo server any day.

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