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To: StanX Long who wrote (61729)	3/8/2002 1:19:21 AM
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(Time to buy IBM, Stan) IBM confirms 500 mln usd Nestle contract host.wallstreetcity.com ARMONK, NY, Mar 07, 2002 (AFX-Europe via COMTEX) -- International Business Machines Corp confirmed it has won a contract worth 500 mln usd from Nestle AG to provide servers, storage systems and database software to Nestle's GLOBE data centers for the next five years. Nestle is expecting to realise more than 1.8 bln usd in benefits by 2006 as a result of implementing GLOBE. The GLOBE initiative involves consolidating Nestle's information technology operations -- currently based in more than 100 sites -- into five GLOBE Data Centers around the world. The centers will be located in Sydney (Australia), Pheonix (Arizona), Frankfurt (Germany) and the remaining two in Bussigny (Switzerland). IBM said that, in order to support the transformation, Nestle is implementing mySAP.com. IBM said the GLOBE centers will be based on IBM eServers, including pSeries Unix servers and xSeries Intel servers, Enterprise Storage Servers (Code named "Shark"), storage area networks, DB2 software and Tivoli software. mkp/ob NNN