Archive for January 5th, 2006
Thursday, January 5th, 2006
Big Iron Poetry
Tim over at the Mainframe Weblog has posted a great set of poetry from an IBM Student Mainframe Contest run over the last couple of months.
Big Iron Poetry
As part of the mainframe student contest, some of the 700 college students entered wrote a haiku. Here is a sample:
The wind blows softly
Through the leaves […]
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006
IBM in Ottawa
An article in The Ottawa Citizen writes about IBM’s presence in that area of Canada.
Big Blue’s Ottawa bet
Over the last decade, the 300-person software team in Ottawa has played a small, but key role in reshaping the $94-billion U.S.-a-year technology giant. The team has grown out of the limelight like a classic startup in stealth […]
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006
Repositioning IBM
The Journal News does a wrap-up of news from 2005 around their region of coverage, and includes some comments on IBM.
Repositioning IBM
Armonk-based IBM Corp.’s efforts to remake itself continued throughout the year as the company turned over its business of making personal computers, a business the company helped invent in 1981. In May, IBM closed […]
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006
IBM Tennis style Pong
For those boring conference calls - try some tennis … IBM style.
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006
Former IBM CEO Frank Cary dies
Frank Cary, IBM’s CEO from 1973 to 1981, has died.
TheStreet.com: IBM Ex-CEO Cary Dies
Frank T. Cary, the chief executive of IBM for much of the 1970s, has died. He was 85 years old.
He started working for IBM in 1948, and he was the computer hardware giant’s top corporate officer from 1973 to 1981
Cary was active […]