
IBM announced it has reached a definitive agreement to <A HREF="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19659.wss">acquire Rembo Technology,</A> a privately held software company based in Geneva, Switzerland. Financial details were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2006. Rembo is a leading provider of software that helps organizations automatically install or upgrade operating systems on thousands of servers, laptops and desktop computers simultaneously, which eliminates the need for IT specialists to spend days or weeks installing software manually on each physical or virtualized computer.