What is the history between Bill Gates and IBM?

Ans : After Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen made Microsoft, they wanted to goet it out there, so they told IBM about it who then wanted to see it. So, IBM took it and discussed it, not reaching a licensing agreement, but that Microsoft had to get a good operating system. Gates got 86-DOS, which is similar to CP/M and which Tim Paterson had made for hardware like a computer. Microsoft made a deal with them that he would be exclusive licensing agent, and later on become the full owner, of the operating system 86-DOS. Gates then insisted that IBM let Microsoft keep the copyright on 86-DOS, because other vendures werre believed to eventually clone IBM's system.

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Important Dates in IBM History:

• 1874/02/17 - Birth of Thomas J. Watson Sr.
• 1911/06/15 - IBM incorporates in New York as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording-Company.
• 1914/05/04 - Thomas J. Watson Sr. becomes GM of IBM predecessor, Computing-Tabulating-Recording-Company.
• 1915/11/12 - IBM stock begins to sell publicly on NY Stock Exchange for $46 a share.
• 1917/01/14 - Birth of Nathaniel Rochester, architect of IBM's first scientific computer.
• 1924/02/14 - Computing-Tabulating-Recording-Company changes its name to International Business Machines.
• 1934/09/20 - IBM provides company-paid life insurance to employees with one year of service.
• 1944/12/23 - Employees at IBM Endicott and Poughkeepsie plants receive award for outstanding production in war effort.
• 1955/03/28 - Thomas J. Watson Jr. featured on the cover of Time magazine.
• 1956/05/08 - Thomas J. Watson Jr. takes over reins as IBM's CEO from his father, Thomas J. Watson Sr.
• 1956/06/19 - Thomas J. Watson Sr. dies at age 82.
• 1964/04/07 - IBM introduces System 360, first large family of computers.
• 1971/06/29 - Thomas J. Watson Jr. steps down as IBM Chairman and CEO, replaced by T. Vincent Learson as CEO and Frank T. Carry as President.
• 1976/07/01 - IBM employees at Endicott publish their first independent newsletter.
• 1981/04/14 - Space Shuttle Columbia, aided by five onboard IBM computers, launched in first Shuttle flight.
• 1981/08/12 - IBM introduces the personal computer.
• 1982/01/08 - U.S. government drops 13 year anti-trust case against IBM.
• 1984/05/05 - In Tokyo, IBM workers hold first international meeting.
• 1985/02/01 - Newsletter of IBM Workers United renamed to Resistor.
• 1985/06/14 - In Athens, Greece, IBM employees hold second international conference.
• 1986/06/01 - John Akers becomes IBM CEO.
• 1987/01/12 - IBM workers from around the world discuss union issues at London conference.
• 1987/04/24 - In New Orleans, IBM Workers United and CWA co-sponsor third international meeting of IBM workers. Group presents demands at IBM shareholder meeting.
• 1988/08/15 - Employees in Korea organize IBM Korea Union.
• 1989/06/08 - In Paris, IBM employees begin fourth International Solidarity meeting (IWIS).
• 1991/01/31 - IBM announces 10% reduction in pension benefits.
• 1991/05/21 - In Rome, IBM employees hold fifth international conference.
• 1991 (or 1992?) - Elimination of medical plan's "coordination of benefits".
• 1992, April - Elimination of Pre-Retirement Education for IBMers within 5 years of retirement. Plan reimbursed up to $2,500 per employee and another $2,500 for a spouse.
• 1992/11/12 - In Sindelfingen, Germany, IBM employees hold sixth international conference.
• 1992 - Rolex removed from 25 year catalog.
• 1992 - Elimination of $1000 that came with Quarter Century club.
• 1993/04/01 - Louis V. Gerstner Jr. becomes IBM Chairman and CEO. Coincidentally, this is April Fool's day... we're not quite sure of the relationship here... but many people who thought Lou would look out for IBM's long term well being sure feel fooled now.
• 1993/12/31 - Thomas J. Watson Jr. dies at age 79.
• 1994/02/17 - 320 employees laid of at IBM Endicott.
• 1994/07/27 - IBM announces Kingston, NY plant closing.
• 1996/02/11 - IBM's "Big Blue" beats world chess champion, Gary Kasparov, marking a machine's first victory over a world chess grandmaster.
• 1996/10/16 - IBM workers hold meeting with IUE in Endicott to discuss organizing.
• 1999/05/03 - IBM mails notice of new "cash-balance" plan to employees.
• 1999/05/10 - IBM stock splits 2 for 1 (15th stock split).
• 1999/05/18 - IBM employees establish pension bulletin board at Yahoo.com.
• 1999/05/21 - IBM employees establish union bulletin board at Yahoo.com.
• 1999/06/24 - Over 200 IBM employees in Endicott, NY, hold first union meeting with CWA.
• 1999/07/01 - Pension reductions for employees under 40 due to Cash Balance Plan conversion.
• 1999/07/01 - Reduction of retirement medical benefit due to conversion to Future Health Account (FHA) for employees with more than 5 years to go before retirement.
• 1999/07/15 - Over 600 IBM employees hold first union meeting in Poughkeepsie, NY.
• 1999/08/23 - Over 500 IBM employees hold first union meeting in Burlington, VT.
• 1999/08/30 - Alliance@IBM/CWA opens office in Endicott, NY.
• 1999/09/17 - Bowing to protests by employees, IBM partially restores "pension choice" to employees.
• 1999/09/21 - Alliance@IBM/CWA founded.
• 1999/10/21 - Announcement of IBM shareholders resolution for "Pension Choice."
• 1999/11/01 - Cooper vs. IBM class-action ERISA complaints against IBM Personal Pension Plan
• 1999/11/12 - Alliance@IBM/CWA activists publish first newsletter with their mission statement.
• 2000/02/18 - Alliance@IBM/CWA publishes first Think Twice newsletter.
• 2000/03/27 - California pension system announces decision to vote 9.2 million shares in favor of IBM employee stockholder resolution to restore pension and medical.
• 2000 (first quarter) - Reduced 2000 variable pay (70% of previous years payout for some employees) due to poor management. Since variable pay is about 10% of yearly salary, this amounts to a 3% pay cut for many employees.2000/04/25 - Sponsored by IEBAC, IBM shareholders' resolution to restore "pension choice" for employees receives 28 percent support at stockholder's meeting.
• 2000/06/10 - Southbury Alliance web site established.
• 2000/09/14 - IBM Endicott announces Alternate Work Schedule (AWS), with mandatory 12 hour work days and weekend days. Workers must work every other Saturday. Overtime (and overtime pay) is reduced. 20% premium for AWS called just a "tip" and not worth the extra effort. Endicott management tells employees that day care should not be a problem, but Alliance@IBM research shows just two licensed day care providers in the area with 24x7 coverage.
• 2000/10/09 - IBM announces that new retirees will have to pay for medical benefits.
• 2001/03/20 - IBM Endicott holds "all hands" meeting to announce that it was sending, eventually, "all" HyperGBA, Blue Devil manufacturing to China.
• 2001/09/14 - Alliance@IBM members vote to become a CWA local.
• 2001/11/28 - IBM Terminates the jobs of over 1,500 workers (500 in Burlington, VT; 400 in Endicott, NY; 200 in East Fishkill, NY; 180 in Rochester, NY; 150 in Fremont, CA; 75 in Raleigh, NC). At the time IBM had plans for an expansion of the East Fishkill facility, which would add 1000 jobs. When asked, managers in East Fishkill were said to have told employees that terminated IBMers will not be brought back, but the positions will instead be filled with temps and contractors.
• 2002/01/08 - An unknown number of vendors and 30 IBMers laid off in Rochester.
• 2002/01/10 - Mass termination at Lotus Professional Services (which is owned by IBM). Half of the consultants working there are told to find new jobs or be let go.
• 2002/06/30 - IBM cuts over 9,000 jobs in the United States.
• 2002/08/13 - IBM admits to over 14,000 job cuts in a corporate filing. 57% of those cuts were already made.

The History of Intel

The History of Intel

Intel was founded on July 18, 1968 with one main goal in mind: to make semiconductor memory more practicle. Intels first microprocessor, the 4004 microcomputer, was released at the end of 1971. The chip was smaller then a thumbnail, contained 2300 transistors, and was capable of executing 60,000 operations in one second. Shortly after the release of th 4004 the 8008 microcomputer was released and was capable of executing twice as many operations per second then the 4004. Intels commitment to the microprocessor led to IBM's choice of Intel's 8088 chip for the CPU of the its first PC. In 1982, Intel introduced the first 286 chip, it contained 134,000 transistors and provided around three times the performance of the other microprocessors at the time. In 1989 the 486 processor was released that contained 1.2 million transistors and the first built in math coprocessor. The chip was approximately 50 times faster then Intels original 4004 processor and equaled the performance of a powerful mainframe computer. In 1993 Intel introduced the Pentium processor, which was five times as fast as the 486, it contained 3.1 million transistors, and was capable of 90 million instructions per second (MIPS). In 1995 Intel introduced its new technology, MMX, MMX was designed to enhance the computers multimedia performance. Throughout the years that followed Intel released several lines of processors including the Celeron, the P2, P3, and P4. Intel processors now reach speeds upwards of 2200 MHZ or 2.2 GHZ.

HISTORY OF IBM 2000

The decade begins with a Y2K-related drop-off in customer demand and the collapse of the dot-coms. If 2000 is seen as a watershed for e-business, 2001 is the year the world's established enterprises awake to its true possibilities -- and information technology requirements. In addition, IBM debuts a new generation of servers -- the eServer -- for meeting entirely new, unprecedented demands on the underlying infrastructure supporting e-business.
		The 2000's are also marked by a transition in IBM's leadership. Samuel J. Palmisano becomes president and chief operating officer in 2000 and then, two years later, he is named chief executive officer of IBM. As CEO, Palmisano succeeds Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., who remains IBM chairman through 2002.

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Learn practical methods and techniques for architecting and designing the data warehouse. Learn the various architecture layers within the data warehouse, and an application framework for achieving results based on soundly defined business requirements. Learn how to apply the techniques in the context of an incremental data warehouse development process which is suitable for constructing a data warehouse from a departmental perspective that can serve a variety of analytical needs. In addition, you will also learn how the data warehouse solution can further be extended for the construction of consistent, corporate-wide data warehouses that serve traditional as well as dynamic warehouse objectives. As such, the course is suitable for you who wish to learn how to construct a data mart-based warehouse solution as well as a corporate-wide, fuly integrated data warehouse. You will apply the techniques they learn doing several exercises, which are part of a case study which is consistently developed throughout the course. This approach greatly enhances the practical value of the course, by exposing you to best practices and techinques used in companies of all sizes and scope of needs.

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CRN, a leading industry publication, announced its 2008 Product of the Year awards and named IBM Lotus Symphony its Product of the Year for Desktop Applications.

"The Test Center found Symphony a snap to use, and switching to Symphony after years of using Microsoft Office was painless. "

The editors at the Test Center for CRN evaluated hundreds of products in 2008 in categories that ranged from hardware to operating systems. In selecting each product of the year, the editors considered market impact and end user value. They concluded that 2008 has been a banner year in the technology sector. Lotus Symphony respresents one of these milestones.

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Weblogic Server

Using Third-Party Drivers with WebLogic Server

The following sections describe how to set up and use third-party JDBC drivers:

• Overview of Third-Party JDBC Drivers
• Using the Oracle Thin Driver
• Updating the Sybase jConnect Driver
• Installing and Using the IBM DB2 Type 2 JDBC Driver
• Installing and Using the SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC from Microsoft
• Installing and Using the IBM Informix JDBC Driver
• Getting a Connection with Your Third-Party Driver
• Using Vendor Extensions to JDBC Interfaces
• Using Oracle Extensions with the Oracle Thin Driver
• Programming with Oracle Virtual Private Databases
• Support for Vendor Extensions Between Versions of WebLogic Server Clients and Servers
• Tables of Oracle Extension Interfaces and Supported Methods

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Overview of Third-Party JDBC Drivers

WebLogic Server works with third-party JDBC drivers that offer the following functionality:

• Are thread-safe
• Can implement transactions using standard JDBC statements
• Third-party JDBC drivers that do not implement Serializable or Remote interfaces cannot pass objects to a remote client application.

For more information, see "Supported Database Configurations" in Supported Configurations for WebLogic Platform 8.1.

The following sections describe how to set up and use third-party JDBC drivers with WebLogic Server:

• Using Third-Party JDBC Drivers Installed with WebLogic Server
• Using Third-Party JDBC Drivers not Installed with WebLogic Server

Using Third-Party JDBC Drivers Installed with WebLogic Server

The following third-party drivers are installed with WebLogic Server:

• Oracle Thin Driver 10g and 9.2.0
• Sybase jConnect 4.5 (jConnect.jar), 5.5 (jconn2.jar), and 6.0 (jconn3.jar)

Note: JDBC Driver support changed in the following releases:

• In WebLogic Server 8.1SP3, the default version of the Oracle Thin driver was changed to the 10g driver (the version in WL_HOME\server\lib). In previous releases of WebLogic Server 8.1, the 9.2.0 version of the Oracle Thin driver was the default version of the driver.
• In WebLogic Server 8.1SP6, support was added for the Sybase JConnect 6.0 (JDBC 2.0) driver.

Drivers installed with Weblogic server are located in the WL_HOME\server\lib folder (where WL_HOME is the folder where WebLogic Platform is installed) with weblogic.jar. The manifest in weblogic.jar lists these files so that they are loaded when weblogic.jar is loaded (when the server starts). Therefore, you do not need to add these JDBC drivers to your CLASSPATH.

Using Third-Party JDBC Drivers not Installed with WebLogic Server

If you plan to use a third-party JDBC driver that is not installed with WebLogic Server, you need to update the WebLogic Server's classpath to include the location of the JDBC driver classes. Edit the commEnv.cmd/sh script in WL_HOME/common/bin and prepend your classes as described in "Modifying the Classpath" in WebLogic Server Command Reference.

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• IBM boosts Ballarat facility

  IBM today said it would create 300 new technology jobs in the Victorian city of Ballarat, using government funding to open a new building at Ballarat Technology Park.

• IBM Australia faces strike action

  IBM's Australian operation is facing the possibility of strike action amongst its workforce after a secret ballot opened yesterday between employees in a Baulkham Hills facility.

• IBM laying off 2,600 Asia-Pac workers?

  The Australian IT has reported that IBM plans to cut 2,600 jobs across its Asia-Pacific operations, with Big Blue saying only that there is a "reorganisation" under way.

• Strike vote fuels IBM Australia debate

  A potential impending strike action at one of IBM Australia's Sydney facilities has sparked debate about whether it was still worth striving to work at one of the largest and most prestigious technology firms in Australia and the world.

• Union won't budge for Telstra's IBM push

  After expanding its supply chain outsourcing agreement with IBM late last year, Telstra warned of job losses by June as the computing giant replaced the telco's staff with its own in some technical areas, but the union representing the workers has stepped in to broker a stronger deal for those facing redundancy.

IBM 17-2-09

IBM Personal Computer (PC)
Model: 5150
Released: September 1981
Price: US $3000
CPU: Intel 8088, 4.77MHz
RAM: 16K, 640K max
Display: 80 X 24 text
Storage: optional 160KB 5.25-inch disk drives
Ports: cassette & keyboard only
internal expansion slots
OS: IBM PC-DOS Version 1.0

The IBM Personal Computer ("PC") was not as powerful as many of the other personal computers it was competing against at the time of its release. It has only 16K on-board RAM and uses an audio cassette to load and save data - the floppy drive was optional, and no hard drive was yet available.

Even so, it is very expandable, more so than most. Expansion slots on the motherboard allow easy installation of additional memory, as well as serial, parallel, video and other options.

# This wasn't IBM's first attempt at a personal, or micro-computer, although it is by far their most successful. In 1975, the model 5100 was an entirely self-contained, portable computer system - probably the first ever.
# Developed between 1979 and 1981, the Datamaster was an all-in-one desktop system for word processing.

These two earlier attempts were both very expensive and sold poorly.

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IBM Press is the official publisher of IBM books for professionals and academia. Our mission is to publish the highest quality content for the critical topics facing today's business and technology students and professionals. With books designed to help educate business leaders, help users master the diverse range of technologies and solutions and prepare for IBM certifications, IBM Press books are an informative resource for knowledge that's critical for today's IT professional and throughout their careers.

To see a complete list of IBM Press books, go our Books & Products page. There you can both browse titles by topic as well as see newly published and best-selling books.

APS/IBM Research Internship for Undergraduate Women

Application Deadline: February 15, 2009

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The American Physical Society and IBM co-sponsor a research internship program for undergraduate women. The goal is to encourage women students to pursue graduate studies in science and engineering.

Award

The internships are salaried positions typically 10 weeks long at one of three IBM research locations (San Jose, CA, Austin, TX, or Yorktown Heights, NY), and include in addition a $2,500 grant, plus the opportunity to work with an IBM mentor. The Watson lab has a full range of research, as does the Almaden lab, and the Austin lab focuses on software and systems. Research areas of the internship are individually chosen so as to optimize the match between the skills and interests of the student, and the ongoing research programs of the laboratory. Read more information about the sites and their research:

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The starting and ending dates are chosen so as not to conflict with the student's school schedule. Assistance in finding and renting housing will be provided. Applications for summer 2009 will be due February 15, 2009, and notification of results will begin in early April.

APS/IBM Research Internship Frequently Asked Questions.

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• Must be female with sophomore or junior standing at a US college or university at the time of application
  
• Must be majoring in chemistry, physics, materials science or engineering, computer science or engineering, chemical, electrical, mechanical engineering
  
• Must have a minimum 3.0 GPA
  
• No citizenship restriction.
  

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Applications will be reviewed by a selection committee at IBM/Almaden and selected based on their commitment to and interest in their major field of study.

Application Procedure

The application process consists of an online application, which is submitted through an IBM server; two letters of recommendation, which are to be emailed directly from the recommenders to the internship chair; and a paper supplement (official transcript), which is submitted to IBM via postal mail.

The online application requires:

• Completing the student application form (on the IBM server)
• Uploading your Essay (250 words) describing your interest in research and how this opportunity would advance your goals.
• Uploading your Resume (1-3 pages)
• Uploading a page listing all of your college technical courses (math, science, computer science, engineering) with the school year in which they were taken and the grades awarded

Acceptable formats for the essay, resume, and course list are PDF, PostScript, and Microsoft Word.

If you have any problem submitting your application electronically, please use your "back" button to return to the application and try again; if after at most three such tries you still have difficulties, please e-mail Barbara Jones at bajones@almaden.ibm.com as soon as possible.

Additional Information (required)

• Two letters of recommendation sent by e-mail to IBM at apsibmin@us.ibm.com. At least one letter must come from a faculty member at your current college/ university, preferably in a field related to your major.
• Official copy of your transcript, including fall semester 2008 grades, sent directly by US mail to IBM.

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Is IT Ready to Spearhead “Green” Energy Efficiency Efforts?
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Gartner researchers report that most IT shops are not yet optimally prepared to support the energy efficiency agenda for their organizations. With energy costs now consuming up to 71 cents for every dollar that is spent on enterprise IT, achieving improvement in energy efficiency will require IT managers to move beyond their traditional role as technology providers.

The first step IT managers can take to managing the energy impact of their enterprise IT infrastructures is to develop a comprehensive understanding of actual energy consumption. “In many enterprises, energy and infrastructure costs fall into the facilities management portfolio—and are likely to be separated from the IT department’s responsibilities,” says IBM’s Chris Spaight, Program Manager, Energy Efficient Technology & Services. “Therefore, IT managers should be prepared to work closely with other service provider components within their enterprises to reach a comprehensive understanding of IT energy consumption and costs.”

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