Lenovo buys IBM server 6 Big Harvest 3 Big worries

Feng, the biggest star of Lenovo's Spring Festival gala in 2014, sparked a scream from tens of thousands of fans at the scene, but he missed the headlines again. The same day, Lenovo announced 2.4 billion U.S. dollars to acquire IBM X86 Architecture Server. After the meeting, Yang had a brief media exchange. The following is a sharp observation of the collation of information:

What did Lenovo get?

1, capital exchange market. Lenovo paid a price of 2 billion cash + 300 million shares, in return, Lenovo in the global market for X86 servers to gain more than 14% of the share, in China will have more than 22% of the market share, become the first in the Chinese market, the third place in the global market.

2, revenue and profit margins have increased dramatically. Lenovo is expected to receive 5 billion dollars a quarter of revenue, which is equivalent to One-sixth of Lenovo's quarterly revenues, and Lenovo's profit margins will be greatly improved, with server margins above 20% and PC profits relatively low.

3, talent and patent become Lenovo's important wealth. Yang said 7,500 full-time employees and 1500 contract workers would join Lenovo, and Lenovo would get a lot of patents.

4, access to the European and American server market tickets. Lenovo can use IBM's brand for five years, and IBM promises that the vast majority of its internal use and the servers it sells outside will be the product of Lenovo's mergers and acquisitions business.

5, a new pillar industry has been added. Lenovo's Pillar industries will change, with the exception of the traditional PC and mobile Internet, the server will become Lenovo's next three pillars of industry.

6, transform from server hardware to service provider. At this stage Lenovo is to provide hardware, the future association will provide cloud services for enterprises. Of course, Lenovo may be working with partners to complete the delivery of cloud services.

What are Lenovo's worries?

1, can keep the staff. As mentioned earlier, 7,500 employees and 1500 contract unions joined the association.

2, Lenovo can keep customers. IBM made a promise that Lenovo could use the IBM brand for 5 years, and IBM would prefer Lenovo when purchasing.

3, US regulatory review. The negotiations lasted a year, but it would take months to complete the merger. The reason is that the merger case needs to be approved by other State departments.

Written in the last words:

The IoE caused by the prism gate may have to be marked with a terminator. Lenovo Group China CMO Weijianglei to Sohu that mergers and acquisitions can introduce many of IBM's new technology and patents, such as IBM X86 Blade Server Technology, the product has become China's giant business enterprise data center of choice, which means that the future Lenovo will be in telecommunications, Key areas such as finance and government provide products that are inferior to any competitor.