Article: IBM's Ambra unveils line

Now, from the world's largest computer maker, comes one of the smallest: Ambra Computer Corp., a 60-employee "virtual corporation" owned by IBM, yesterday unveiled a line of low-priced computers aimed at customers who have been buying inexpensive IBM clones.

Ambra is IBM's long-awaited answer to Dell, Zeos and Gateway 2000, who have undercut IBM for years with inexpensive personal computers and notebooks. Like those companies, Ambra will produce IBM clones, and it will adopt the popular clone-maker strategy of selling by "800" telephone number and direct mail.

But with Ambra, IBM alone is employing the hottest idea in corporate management in an attempt to produce the cheapest clones of all.

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