...before IBM System X goes the way of their desktop/laptop business? Let's face it those things don't help IBM push expensive services the way their software and proprietary System P/System Z products do... and IBM never really "got" the SMB space anyway.

.... for IBM to sell them the xSeries bizz!

Until IBM starts producing PCs again... oh wait, weren't they already kinda doing that but not really because of the non-compete clause in the deal that shaf... sold their PC division to Lenovo?