IBM has shipped 200 blade servers thus far to early customers including AOL Time Warner, which, it said, is using them to run America Online e-mail software. Whitney said its blade servers will be ...

IBM described the x232 is a “general-purpose” two-way server which can be used for a variety of applications from file and print serving to e-mail.

The servers, which IBM estimates can reduce the costs of electronic business operations by 20 per cent to 25 per cent, also can run Linux, the alternative operating system that IBM has supported ...