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(known as '''IBM''' or '''"Big Blue"'''; ) is a
Multinational Computer Technology and
Consulting Corporation headquartered in
Armonk, New York ,
USA . The company is one of the few
Information Technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. IBM manufactures and sells computer
Hardware and
Software , and offers infrastructure services,
Hosting Services , and
Consulting Services in areas ranging from
Mainframe Computer s to
Nanotechnology .
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Known through most of its recent history as the world's largest computer company, as of 2006, IBM has fallen to second behind
Hewlett-Packard in total revenue (though not profit). With over 350,000 employees worldwide, IBM is the largest
Information Technology employer in the world. IBM holds more
Patent s than any other U.S. based technology company.
4 It has engineers and consultants in over 170 countries and
IBM Research has eight laboratories worldwide.
5 IBM employees have earned three
Nobel Prize s, four
Turing Award s, five
National Medals Of Technology , and five
National Medals Of Science .
6 As a chip maker, IBM is among the
Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders .
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See Also: History of IBM
See Also: Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR)
Herman Hollerith
The company which became IBM was founded in 1888 as the Tabulating Machine Company by
Herman Hollerith . It was incorporated as
Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) on
June 15 ,
1911 , and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1916. IBM adopted its current name in 1924, when it became a Fortune 500 company.
See Also: Project Big Green
In May 2007, IBM unveiled Project Big Green -- a re-direction of $1 billion per year across its businesses to increase energy efficiency. New IBM products and services are expected to reduce data center energy consumption and transform clients' technology infrastructure into “green” data centers, with energy savings of approximately 42 percent for an average data center. Project Big Green outlines a five-step approach for clients to dramatically improve energy efficiency. The initiative includes a new global “green team” of more than 850 energy efficiency architects from across IBM. As part of Project Big Green, IBM is building an $86 million green data center expansion at its Boulder location and will consolidate nearly 4,000 computer servers in six locations worldwide onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running the Linux operating system.
See Also: Eclipse (software)
Eclipse is a platform-independent,
Java -based
Software Framework . Eclipse was originally a
Proprietary product developed by IBM as a successor of the
VisualAge family of tools. Eclipse has subsequently been released as
Free /
Open Source software under the
Eclipse Public License .
See Also: alphaWorks
alphaWorks is IBM's source for emerging software technologies. These technologies include:
- - A highly flexible architecture for the design, display, and reporting of Internet surveys.
- - A tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors.
- - A tool that provides users of Linux on Power a set of performance models for IBM's POWER processors.
- - An application for archiving and restoring hard disk files using file references stored in a database.
- - A policy-based autonomic management infrastructure that simplifies the automation of IT and business processes.
- - A spam filter that verifies sender identity instead of filtering content.
- - A Java SDK that supports the implementation, composition, and deployment of applications working with unstructured information.
- - A web-browser specifically designed to assist the visually-impared, to be released as open-source software. Also known as the "A-Browser," the technology will aim to eliminate the need for a mouse, relying instead completely on voice-controls, buttons and predefined shortcut keys.
Extreme Blue is a company initiative that uses experienced IBM engineers, talented interns, and business managers to develop high-value technology. The project is designed to analyze emerging business needs and the technologies that can solve them. These projects mostly involve rapid-prototyping of high-profile software and hardware projects. Entry into ExtremeBlue is competitive for both interns and IBM employees.
Virtually all modern
Console Gaming Systems use microprocessors developed by IBM. The
Xbox 360 contains the
Xenon tri-core chipset, which was designed and produced by IBM in less than 24 months.
7 Sony's
PlayStation 3 features the
Cell Microprocessor designed jointly by IBM,
Toshiba , and
Sony .
Nintendo 's
Seventh-generation console,
Wii , features an IBM chip codenamed
Broadway . The older
Nintendo GameCube also utilizes the Gekko processor, designed by IBM.
In May 2002, IBM and Butterfly.net, Inc. announced the Butterfly Grid, a commercial
Grid for the online video gaming market.
8 In March 2006, IBM announced separate agreements with Hoplon Infotainment, Online Game Services Incorporated (OGSI), and RenderRocket to provide on-demand content management and
Blade Server computing resources.
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IBM announced it will launch its new software, called “Open Client Offering” which is to run on competitor – the
Firefox web browser. IBM plans to install Open Client on 5 percent of its desktop PCs.
PSA Peugeot Citroen in January 2007 signed an agreement with
Novell to run Linux on its 20,000 desktop PCs and 2,500 server computers.
(''Unified Communications and Collaboration'') is an IBM and
Cisco joint project based on Eclipse and OSGi. It will offer the numerous Eclipse application developers a unified platform for an easier work environment.
The software based on UC2 platform will provide major enterprises with easy-to-use communication solutions, such as the Lotus based SameTime. In the future the SameTime users will benefit from such additional functions as
Click-to-call and
Voice Mailing .
IBM and Cisco: Attempt to Unite the Communication Software Developers
IBM's PC division was bought by Chinese company
Lenovo on
May 1 ,
2005 for $655 million in cash and $600 million in Lenovo stock. On
January 25 ,
2007 ,
Ricoh announced purchase of IBM Printing Systems Division for $725 million and investment in 3-year joint venture to form a new Ricoh subsidiary,
InfoPrint Solutions Company ; Ricoh will own a 51% share, and IBM will own a 49% share in InfoPrint.
This group is one of the major divisions of IBM. The various brands include:
is a nickname for IBM; several theories exist regarding its origin. One theory, substantiated by people who worked for IBM at the time, is that IBM field reps coined the term in the 1960s, referring to the color of the mainframes IBM installed in the 1960s and early 1970s. "All blue" was a term used to describe a loyal IBM customer, and business writers later picked up the term.
1011 Another theory suggests that Big Blue simply refers to the Company's
Logo . A third theory suggests that Big Blue refers to a former company dress code that required many IBM employees to wear only white shirts and many wore blue suits.
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IBM has often been described as having a sales-centric or a sales-oriented business culture. Traditionally, many IBM executives and general managers are chosen from the sales force. The current CEO,
Sam Palmisano , for example, joined the company as a salesman and, unusually for CEOs of major corporations, has no MBA or postgraduate qualification. Middle and top management are often enlisted to give direct support to salesmen when pitching sales to important customers.
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