John Akers, IBM’s CEO During Mainframe-to-PC Shift, Dies
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John Akers, chief executive officer at International Business Machines Corp. for eight years during the company’s struggles to adapt its dominance in mainframes to the personal-computer era, has died. He was 79.
Akers died Aug. 22 in Boston, IBM said yesterday in a statement on its website. The cause was a stroke, company spokesman Ed Barbini wrote in an e-mail.