IBM's Big Anniversary

[Bigaldoc]

I've just been made aware by a postcard from my IBM corporate offices that 2011 is the Centennial Year of the IBM Corporation. Most of you know that I spent my second career there for 30 years, after the US Army and I AM proud of that service in a great company. The anniversary date is June 16th and I'm sure there will be much hoopla about it.

See: History of IBM

[aekyall]

A hundred years! Quite an achievement. I wonder what the basis of their business was when they started up in 1911? I take it you joined them a bit later Al

Edited: guess I should look at the history of IBM link

[agibsonsw]

I was reading about E F Codd recently. He was an employee of IBM when he invented the relational model for database management. IBM were apparently dismissive of this and were very late in adopting the model.

And, of course, he was British