Blade.org Is Open for Innovation

Business Development Committee - for recruitment of new members. Also, Blade.org today launched a new website: www.blade.org, as a centrallocation for the blade community, offering membership information anddetails on the organization.

Blade.org also plans to participate in industry events like Intel DeveloperForum and Server Blade Summit.

About IBM BladeCenter

IBM BladeCenter is one of the fastest-growing server business units in IBMhistory, with more than 2,600 percent growth in less than three years.More than 320 companies have received the BladeCenter specifications, withmore than 600 technology and solution providers participating in theBladeCenter Alliance Program and Open Specification Program, making itpossible for them to develop products and solutions based on the openspecifications for BladeCenter.

BladeCenter has been the leading blade server vendor in the industry fornine successive quarters according to IDC.* IBM has shipped well in excessof 350,000 blades since market introduction, more than any other computermaker.

About Blade.org

Blade.org is a collaborative organization and developer community focusedon accelerating the expansion of blade solutions and the IBM and Intelblade ecosystem. This organization is intended to create new solutions thatwill offer more customer choice.

* Source: IDC, Worldwide Quarterly, Q3, Server Tracker, November 2005

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