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Corporate Citizenship

IBM

 contributes more than $126 million to programs around the world that help people in need. 

Individual employees add another $49 million through matching grants and donations to 

nonprofit organizations and educational institutions and volunteer 4 million hours of their time to 

a broad range of local issues.  

2001  

Business Performance

IBM

's revenue is $85.9 billion, a decline of two percent from 2000, and net income is $7.7 

billion, down 4.9 percent from the year before. There are 319,876 employees and 673,967 

stockholders at year end. 

Organization

IBM

 acquires CrossWorlds Software, Inc., a leading provider of software to automate business 

processes that integrate multiple applications. The acquisition further strengthens 

IBM

's business 

in the fast growing e business infrastructure software segment. 

IBM

 acquires Mainspring, a digital business strategy consulting firm in April, and the assets of 

Informix Software    the database business of Informix Corporation    in a cash transaction 

valued at $1 billion in July. 

Nextant, a leading technology and consulting firm in the energy field, purchases 

IBM

's Chem 

Systems business unit.  

Products & Services

The company reports that it has nearly doubled the mainframe's ability to process highly secure 

Internet transactions, and says the 

IBM

 eServer z900 is the first server to achieve a record 3,850 

transactions per second. 

IBM

 ships its 1,000th 

IBM

 eServer z900 on September 24 to Boscov's, 

the largest family owned department store company in the United States.  

In October, 

IBM

 announces the eServer p690 ( Regatta ) as the world's most powerful 

UNIX

server, crowning a five year effort to deliver a new class of 

UNIX

 system that incorporates 

microprocessor breakthroughs and mainframe technologies. When tackling the most complex 

problems, multiple p690 servers can be linked together to create supercomputers powered by 

more than 1,000 processors. Later in the month, 

IBM

 reports that  Regatta  sets a world record 

for processing speed on the important Fluent engineering benchmark. The company begins 

shipping  Regatta  in volume in December.  

The company announces the 

IBM

 eServer p660 Model 6M1, the world's most powerful 

midrange server. In October, it introduces the 

IBM

 eServer p610 as the world's most powerful 

entry server, a two way 

UNIX

 system that provides industry leading performance, wireless 

manageability features and advanced self healing technologies. 

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