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2001

Tony Award Productions.   

NHL

.com, the official Web site of the National Hockey League, 

decides to run its Web site on 

IBM

 Linux systems as part of an overall site improvement plan.  

As part of the company's Project eLiza    a multi billion dollar program to develop self 

managing systems that reduce the cost and complexity of the 

IT

 infrastructure    

IBM

 delivers the 

industry's first services to automate key e business processes that predict, identify and intercept 

problems on a real time basis; a partner program in which major 

IT

 vendors and customers 

develop a road map for advanced e business technology; and new technologies for 

IT

 security 

and management, including software from Tivoli.  

IBM

 announces a worldwide initiative to align its extensive safety and security offerings within 

an expanded 

IBM

 Global Services Practice and to create a new corporate level Global Solutions 

Office to address broader and emerging safety and security issues in industry, global commerce 

and society.  

IBM

 offers 

IBM

 StartNow Wireless Solutions to help small and medium businesses connect a 

mobile work force to corporate data. 

AstraZeneca, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, signs a $1.7 billion, seven 

year, outsourcing agreement with 

IBM

. The agreement covers the provision of 

IT

 infrastructure 

services to 45 countries, and is the largest of its kind in the pharmaceutical industry.  

IBM

 and Carrier unveil a new wireless remote monitoring and control service called 

 Myappliance.com  as the first Web enabled air conditioner that wirelessly communicates in 

real time with other devices, such as mobile phones and PCs. The new service will be built on an 

e infrastructure supported by 

IBM

 services, software and hardware.  

Building on a 20 year relationship, 

IBM

 and J. D. Edwards form an alliance to jointly sell and 

market collaborative commerce solutions to selected markets and accounts within the public 

sector and the wholesale distribution industry. 

Using 

IBM

 technology and the new 

IBM

 NetVista Internet Appliance, crew members on Royal 

Caribbean International's newest ship, 

Radiance of the Seas

, receive onboard access to e mail, 

Internet and productivity applications.  

Alliances

IBM

, Hitachi, Ltd., and its wholly owned subsidiary, Hitachi Data Systems, announce a strategic 

technology agreement to extend interoperability between the companies' storage servers and 

allow customers to more easily deploy open storage networks.  

Pfizer, Microsoft and 

IBM

 form a new independent company    Amicore    to develop software 

and services for physician practices.  

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