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Suite, Marketplace Edition as the first software to enable businesses to create online 

marketplaces that interact with handheld devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and pagers.  

IBM

 introduces Linux software and services for the S/390 enterprise server. In November, the 

company announces the 

IBM

 Small Business Suite for Linux    including DB2 Universal 

Database, WebSphere Application Server and Lotus Domino    the first Linux based integrated 

software solution for small businesses. 

In March, 

IBM

 unveils the 

IBM

 Content Manager, a first of a kind offering to help companies 

manage the exploding amount of digital information facing organizations in the e business 

world. Content Manager, based on DB2, sits at the heart of some of the world's largest media 

collections, including the Dutch National Library, the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, the 

Vatican Library and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.  

IBM

 introduces ViaVoice for Windows, Release 8.0, a family of voice recognition software.  

In building and managing the technology infrastructure for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, 

IBM

 turns in a Gold Medal performance. The official Games Web site, powered by 

IBM

, handles 

unprecedented Internet traffic with 11.3 billion hits, a 1,700 percent increase over the Nagano 

Games official site in 1998. More than 13 million lines of software code are written and 

thoroughly tested before the Games begin. Nearly 6,000 people provide technology support for 

300 medal events in 37 sports competitions held in 39 venues. More than 7,300 

IBM

 PCs and 

ThinkPads are connected to the Olympic Games information technology network, 540 Netfinity 

Servers support the Games Management System by storing massive amounts of data, 50 IBM 

RS/6000 PC and three 

RS

/6000 

SP

 servers manage and organize data generated by 

Olympics.com and an intranet system, and three S/390 Parallel Sysplex power the Central 

Results System.  

IBM

 Global Services adds hosted storage and storage management to its portfolio of network 

delivered services. 

Texaco awards a five year, $100 million to 

IBM

 Global Services to be its primary information 

technology (

IT

) service provider. Aventis, a leading life sciences company, and 

IBM

 sign a ten 

year, $1.5 billion global 

IT

 services agreement under which 

IBM

 will manage and run core 

elements of Aventis' 

IT

 operations. 

IBM

 reports that it will provide 

IT

 services to The New 

Power Company, a new energy services company launched by Enron Corporation, under a ten 

year agreement valued at up to $1.5 billion. In one of Europe's largest outsourcing agreements, 

The Bank of Scotland awards 

IBM

 a ten year, $1 billion contract to manage and operate the 

Bank's 

IT

 infrastructure. 

IBM

 announces a 15 year, $1 billion global technology services 

agreement with mg technologies ag, an 

IT

 company. Westpac Banking Corporation selects 

IBM

to supply its 

IT

 services for the next ten years in a $2.3 billion agreement. 

IBM

 and Xcel Energy, 

one of the 10 largest utilities in the United States, announce an 11 year strategic relationship to 

strengthen the latter's technology infrastructure while cutting 

IT

 costs in 12 states. The total 

value of the relationship now exceeds $1.2 billion.  

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