BOSTON, MA -- New research from Aberdeen Group, a leading market analysis and positioning services firm, states that IBM customers would have good reason to cheer if IBM were to merge with EMC. This research is a product of Aberdeen's Storage and Storage Management practice, which covers emerging and established companies in the huge midrange and enterprise-level IT storage market. "While we typically ignore the Wall Street rumor du jour," says Tom Willmott, Aberdeen President and CEO, "this one made so much sense, for so many reasons, that we had to examine the information and educate our clients about our conclusions." The full details of Aberdeen's findings are found in its new InSight, "An IBM/EMC Merger Would Be a Win-Win for IBM Customers," which describes why IBM customers would benefit from an IBM-EMC merger. Aberdeen's most current research states that, many IBM server customers turn to EMC for network storage because of EMC's advanced storage management functionality and world-class service and support. IBM's customers turn to IBM for help in integrating increasingly complex IT infrastructure components, such as servers, networks, and databases, in addition to storage subsystems. An IBM/EMC merger would give customers the best of both companies from a single source. For more information about "An IBM/EMC Merger Would Be a Win-Win for IBM Customers," visit www.aberdeen.com