American William Amelio was hired with much fanfare in late 2005 to take charge of Chinese computer giant Lenovo--and integrate that company's acquisition of ibm's mammoth but moneylosing PC business.

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It purchases products from over 100 OEMs, including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Lexmark, Xerox, Lenovo Group and Microsoft, and delivers them to 15, 000 value-added resellers, corporate resellers, government resellers, system integrators, direct marketers and retailers.

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Within its bowels, Lenovo has some of the DNA of the old IBM, the US firm from which Lenovo bought the enterprise PC division in the mid-2000s.

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