Working to provide consumers with the most cost-effective operating system and hardware solution, IBM and Apple today announced a strategic alliance to deliver IBM-branded enterprise server solutions featuring Apple
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April 1st
it’s the afternoon already here in the uk, so all of these april’s fools jokes are getting kind of old already. pcpro reckoned that apple were bringing out an iTablet of some sort and the story has already disappeared.
what would be cool is if apple posted their very own april fools product on their home page, such as ‘iRobot’ to tie in with the new movie. – remember it’s 3laws safe!
Such a shame it isn’t real though. It would be great for both companies.
Oh well.
Sid(dhartha) Finch. I get it.
OK, you got me. For a few minutes at least. The hint was there was no link to the original article, and the link to the author says it all. Good one.
But ya know…. this actually would make sense.
Nicely done. Too bad MDN could not report this news *tomorrow*
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Ouch! This one hurt because, if true, it would have meant so much to Apple (and to IBM). This would have rocked the enterprise more than all of the Linux distros combined. Oh well, one can dream.
Don’t do that to me, I’m out of shape and I have blood pressure issues.
Still, v. funny!
This and MacUser UK’s announcement of an Apple tablet coming out today! Enough already……….
that’s a lot of effort to put into a practical joke
Fooled me.
Bastard.
I wished it were true..
Too bad. The Power PC is there, Apple and IBM have a relationship already. It would actually work. IBM and Apple – do this for real!
“…it makes more sense than IBM selling
Intel-based servers running Linux.”
– completely unofficial response from an Apple employee (who shall remain nameless.)
o.k. so ibm is going to sell servers running osx.
My question is whats going to happen with the xserves…??
will this help? or take away bizz away apple’s xserve?
r they more powerfull???????
Hey is this a april fools joke????MDN
Got me too, for 30 seconds or so, because it is sooo RIGHT in terms of what Apple needs! Sales of the next generation of Mac desktops and notebooks would make the ipod/mini sales look like chump change…
This is an alliance the rest of the computer world would respect. Gates would have a heart attack – as be base of his tower started to crack! It is truely shame it is April 1.
Great one – because (after you get it) this article makes you think: WHY THE HELL ISN’T THIS HAPPENING?!
Did anyone else notice that MDN just pulled a piece about G5s being able to run OS9? Ha ha ha ha ha. Not so clever now, are we?
Oh shite. the article is still there. I still think it’s a load of crap though.
It got me too. I was like: NO WONDER there hasn’t been much news recently!
I would be cool if people from Apple and IBM read this and it gave them ideas tho.
It figures that that the first article on MDN that has made me happy was a joke.
Nice try, but I remembered Sidd Finch from the great Sports Illustrated April Fool hoax. If only it were true.
Darn, I was getting ready to check on AAPL.
Just imagine what such deal can do for the Apple’s bottom line. Single license to run MacOS panther on IBM’s mainframe can make up for the loss of few Xserver sales, assuming licensing fee for IBM computers follow normal mainframe licensing scheme (depending on number of CPU and/or CPU speed. In today’s environment, it should also scale with disk space size.
Also Apple should rebrand IBM servers too, Zserver 990!