List of IBM acquisitions and spinoffs

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Contents 1 Acquisitions 1.1 1889 - 1909 1.2 1910 - 1929 1.3 1930 - 1949 1.4 1950 - 1969 1.5 1970 - 1989 1.6 1990 - 2000 1.7 2000 - 2003 1.8 2004 1.9 2005 1.10 2006 2 See Also 3 Spinoffs

[edit] Acquisitions

[edit] 1889 - 1909

• 1889 Bundy Manufacturing Company incorporated.
• 1891 Computing Scale Company incorporated.
• 1893 Dey Patents Company (Dey Time Registers) incorporated.
• 1894 Willard & Frick Manufacturing Company (Rochester, New York) incorporated.
• 1896
  • Detroit Automatic Scale Company incorporated.
  • Tabulating Machine Company incorporated.
• 1899 Standard Time Stamp Company acquired by Bundy Manufacturing Company.
• 1900 Willard & Frick Manufacturing Company (Rochester) acquired by International Time Recording Company.
  • Chicago Time-Register Company acquired by International Time Recording Company.
  • Dayton Moneyweight Scale Company acquired by Computing Scale Company.
  • Detroit Automatic Scale Company acquired by Computing Scale Company.
• 1902 Bundy Manufacturing Company acquired by International Time Recording Company.
• 1907 Dey Time Registers acquired by International Time Recording Company.
• 1908 Syracuse Time Recording Company acquired by International Time Recording Company.

[edit] 1910 - 1929

• 1911
  • Computing Scale Company acquired by Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R).
  • International Time Recording Company acquired by Computing-Time-Recording Company (C-T-R).
  • Tabulating Machine Company acquired by Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R).
• 1917
  • American Automatic Scale Company acquired by Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R) as International Scale Company.
  • C-T-R opens in Canada as International Business Machines Company Limited.
• 1921
  • Pierce Accounting Machine Company (asset purchase).
  • Ticketograph Company (of Chicago).
• 1924 C-T-R renamed International Business Machines Corporation.

[edit] 1930 - 1949

• 1930 Automatic Accounting Scale Company.
• 1932 National Counting Scale Company.
• 1933 Electromatic Typewriters Inc. (See: IBM Electromatic typewriter)
• 1941 Munitions Manufacturing Corporation.

[edit] 1950 - 1969

• 1959 Pierce Wire Recorder Corporation.

[edit] 1970 - 1989

• 1974 CML Satellite Corporation (renamed Satellite Business Systems (SBS).
• 1984 ROLM
• 1986 RealCom Communications Corporation.

[edit] 1990 - 2000

• 1995 Lotus Development Corporation for $3.5 billion.
• 1996
  • Tivoli Systems, Inc. for $743 million.
  • Data Sciences Ltd, UK for £95 million.
  • Object Technology International (OTI) is acquired by IBM
  • Cyclade Consultants (Netherlands)
• 1997
  • Software Artistry for $200 million.
  • Unison Software.
• 1998 CommQuest Technologies.
• 1999
  • Mylex Corporation.
  • Sequent Computer Systems for $810 million.

[edit] 2000 - 2003

• 2001
  • Informix Software (a purchase of assets rather than a true acquisition) for $1.0 billion.
  • Mainspring Inc. for $80 million.
• 2002
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers' Consulting for $3.5 billion (recalculated by IBM in August 2003 as $3.9 billion).
  • January, Crossworlds.
  • September, Holosofx.
  • Tarian Software.
• 2003
  • March, Rational Software Corporation for $2.1 billion.
  • July, Presence Online, Aptrix.
  • October, CrossAccess.

[edit] 2004

• Maersk Data & DMdata, Denmark.
• March, Logicalis Australia (renamed to Cerulean Solutions in April 2005) and Logical CSI New Zealand.
• April
  • Candle Corp., Daksh eServices in India.
  • Schlumberger Business Continuity Services (Renamed to Continuity Services Ltd)
  • Trigo Technologies
• July
  • Alphablox.
  • Cyanea Systems.
• August, Venetica.
• October, Systemcorp.
• December, KeyMRO.

[edit] 2005

• February, Corio crio for $211 million.
• April, Ascential Software for approximately $1.1 billion in cash.
• May, Gluecode Software, Inc.
• June, Meiosys
• July, PureEdge.
• August, DWL.
• October, DataPower.
• November, Network Solutions Pvt Ltd, India
• December
  • Bowstreet.
  • Micromuse for $865 million.

[edit] 2006

• January, Classic Blue.
• May
  • Build Forge
  • Unicorn Solutions, Inc.
• June, Rembo Technology, Geneva
• August
  • Webify Solutions, Austin, Texas
  • MRO Software
  • FileNet Corporation for $1.6 Billion
  • Internet Security Systems for $1.3 Billion
• Dec
  • It will acquire privately held Consul, which makes compliance and security audit software, for an undisclosed sum.

[edit] See Also

IBM Company overview] Scroll down to Selected acquisitions.

[edit] Spinoffs

• 1934 Dayton Scale Division is sold to the Hobart Manufacturing Company.
• 1942 Ticketograph Division is sold to the National Postal Meter Company.
• 1958 Time Equipment Division is sold to the Simplex Time Recorder Company.
• Taligent, a joint software venture with Apple Computer.
• Prodigy, formerly a joint venture with Sears, Roebuck and Company.
• AT&T Business Internet
• 1985 Satellite Business Systems sold to MCI Communications
• 1988 Copier/Duplicator business, including service and support contracts, sold to Eastman Kodak. [1] [2]
• ARDIS mobile packet network, a joint venture with Motorola. Now Motient.
• 1991 Lexmark (keyboards, typewriters, and printers). IBM Retained a 10% interest. Lexmark has sold its keyboard and typewriter businesses. IBM Printing Systems now competes with Lexmark.
• 1994 Xyratex — enterprise data storage subsystems and network technology; formed in a management buy-out from IBM.
• 1994 Federal Systems Division sold to Loral becoming Loral Federal Systems. The Federal Systems Division performed work for NASA.
• 1996 Celestica — Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS).
• 2003 Hitachi Global Storage Technologies now provides many of the hardware storage devices formerly provided by IBM, including IBM Harddrives & The Microdrive. IBM continues to develop storage systems, including tape backup, storage software and enterprise storage.
• December, 2004 — Lenovo Group acquires 90% interest in IBM Personal Systems Group, 10,000 employees and $9 billion in revenue.

See also Friden Flexowriter and [3].