List of IBM acquisitions and spinoffs

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[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

[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

[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.s

[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
  • June, Meiosys
  • July, PureEdge Solutions
  • August, DWL
  • October, DataPower
  • November, Network Solutions Pvt Ltd, India
  • December
    • Bowstreet
    • Micromuse for $865 millions

[edit] 2006

  • January, Classic Blue.
  • May
  • June, Rembo Technology, Geneva
  • August
  • 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.
  • 2007 January 25, 3-year joint venture with IBM Printing Systems division and Ricoh to form new Ricoh-owned subsidiary, InfoPrint Solutions Company, for $725 million.

See also Friden Flexowriter and [3].

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