But the software division gained traction and even a few customers outside Citigroup, mainly in West Africa.
The software division revenue growth was negatively impacted as IBM failed to close a number of deals in Q1.
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So in 1996, Lego created Lego Media, a software division based in London.
Only slightly less busy is Michael Maples, who was executive vice president in charge of the software division at Microsoft from 1992 to 1995.
"It's not like Big Blue is watching you, " says Rebecca Swanick, a marketing director at IBM's Rational software division, who uses the technology at trade shows.
IBM's software division will get an extra bump from the first full quarter of revenues from business intelligence software firm Cognos, which it acquired last November.
"Microsoft knows the desktop is changing more in Asia than anywhere else in the world, " says Tom Kendra, vice president of IBM's Asia Pacific software division.
He is also expected to devote resources to several emerging lines of business, including online business software division Google Apps, and to continue to make acquisitions of start-ups.
Due to a weak macroeconomic environment, a slowing PC market and restructuring efforts, the company expects a marginal decline in revenue across all divisions except the software division.
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The company also provided a detailed turnaround strategy and 2013 outlook where the company expects a marginal decline in revenue across all segments in 2013 except the software division.
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The most obvious example is Apple, which last month got rid of Scott Forstall, boss of its iOS software division, and John Browett, who very briefly ran the retail operation.
Lacking stock to use as currency, O'Reilly has been forced to pass on a number of strategic acquisitions for his software division, which makes a Windows-based Web server called WebSite.
Banc of America Securities analyst Keith Bachman maintained his "buy" rating on Hewlett-Packard after the PC and printer giant announced the resignation of software division head Nora Denzel following Wednesday's market close.
IBM's software division will get an extra bump from the first full quarter of revenues from business intelligence software firm Cognos (nasdaq: COGN - news - people ), which it acquired last November.
"With new HP management, we expect to see change at division-level management, particularly in business units that have had poor relative performance, " Bachman said in a research report, indicating that the software division has struggled up until the current January quarter.
"Between Sun, AOL, and Netscape, we have a broad base of great technology and products, and we are working to integratethem into one middleware suite, " said Alan Baratz, president of Sun's Java Software Division, in a press conference followingthe NetDynamics announcement.
Banc of America Securities analyst Keith Bachman maintained his "buy" rating on Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) after the PC and printer giant announced the resignation of software division head Nora Denzel following Wednesday's market close.
If that is the case, then we can also conclude that Microsoft Mobile software division is completely incompetent in software development considering that is has been out for awhile now and yet barely keep their share in the low single digit range.
"He is a different CEO for a different time, " says Ann Livermore, the 25-year HP veteran who runs the servers, software and services division.
That doesn't include sales of its Office desktop software, which are lumped into the Business Division along with enterprise software, and swing with Windows.
Cloud based customer software is the biggest division of Salesforce.com and constitutes nearly 55% of our current price estimate.
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Valve Software's hardware division is still in its infancy.
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Mar. 30 saw the sudden departure of the head of the division that sells software to health care providers.
The firm intends to transform Star Division's software into an online service.
When the acquisition closes in the first quarter, Rational will be the fifth division within IBM software, along with Websphere, DB2 database, Tivoli management products and Lotus collaborative software.
An example is its new Xperia Z smartphone which adopts photo tech developed by Sony's digital camera division and video enhancement software created for its Bravia TVs.
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We will be very interested to see if Intel will begin to integrate security enhancements into its hardware or if they will leave the McAfee division as a solely software product.
Earnings per share have risen at an average 11% rate, excluding discontinued operations, since he took over, but slipped below 9% last year as Cooper struggled with flagging demand in Asia and the implementation of an SAP software system in its Power Systems division.
Magellan has established an internal division to oversee its mobile software products and recently added lifetime traffic data to its most expensive app.
The mobiles will go head to head with established software from Apple and Google's Android division.
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