In a deal that reflects the ongoing breakdown of the traditional PC-manufacturing model, IBM recently signed a $1.8 billion agreement with rival company Acer, under which the Taiwan firm will build and distribute as many as 80,000 desktop PCs per month for resale under the IBM logo, sources say.
- by Mark LaPedus
Almost 10 million network computers (NCs) will be sold worldwide during the year 2000, the management consultancy Datamonitor (London) forecasts.
- by Rainer Mauth
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