This collection of interviews provides a fascinating insight into the thoughts and ideas of influential figures from the world of IT and computing, such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Donald Knuth, Linus Torvalds, Jimmy Wales and Steve Wozniak. It gives an excellent overview of importa…
'It might be time to change IBM's nickname from Big Blue to Black and Blue, ' wrote the New York Times in 1993 as the company once revered worldwide as the epitome of management excellence and technological prowess reported losses of $ 5.46 billion in just one quarter's trading.…
"With the introduction of the IBM PC in the early 1980s, IBM stood poised to extend its dominance of the computer industry well into the twenty-first century." "The meteoric rise of competitors like Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Compaq, Sun, and others derailed IBM's dream of control…
"With the introduction of the IBM PC in the early 1980s, IBM stood poised to extend its dominance of the computer industry well into the twenty-first century." "The meteoric rise of competitors like Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Compaq, Sun, and others derailed IBM's dream of control…
Building IBM: shaping an industry and its technology
Building IBM: shaping an industry and its technology
Building IBM: shaping an industry and its technology
Building IBM: shaping an industry and its technology
Building IBM: shaping an industry and its technology
No company of the twentieth century achieved greater success and engendered more admiration, respect, envy, fear, and hatred than IBM. Building IBM tells the story of that company, how it was formed, how it grew, and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industr…