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IBM worms its way into African economy... with chocolate
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| Working together with the likes of the US Department of Agriculture (*cough*
| Trade tarrifs *cough*), and chocolate giant Mars (another non-surprise), IBM
| hopes its project will be able to map the cocoa genome in its entirety (all
| 400 million DNA bases of it). After having done that, the companies will use
| data-mining to examine the results and understand the key properties that
| make the cocoa bean tick.
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| The PR value? Priceless. The market value? Potentially Billions and billions.
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| Sweet deal for IBM then.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/27/ibm-bribes-way-african-economy
IBM woos Microsoft with iDataPlex oddity
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| In fairness, IBM only promised to start shipping the iDataPlex units in July,
| so that might explain the product's MIA status. What's tougher to explain is
| IBM's current taunting of those customers desperate to get their mitts on the
| missing machines.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/27/ibm_idataplex_microsoft/
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