Microsoft aims at Big Blue bulls-eye
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft plans on Tuesday to link hands with hardware and services companies in a push to win over IBM's midrange server customers, CNET News.com has learned. The Midrange Alliance Program will see Microsoft join up with Fujitsu, Electronic Data Systems and a half-dozen other companies to try to convince businesses to look at Windows-based alternatives to IBM's iSeries servers, the latest in the AS/400 family.
"We look at the iSeries as having this well-deserved reputation as superintegrated and ultrareliable," Tim O'Brien, a senior product manager at Microsoft, said in an interview. But "the road map that got it there has taken kind of this left turn."