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Article: Field guide: IBM corp.: there's not a single bit of information technology, nor industry, nor industry need, nor business process untouched by the largest IT vendor in the world: IBM.(FEATURE)(Company overview)
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- October 1, 2008
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International Business Machines (IBM) Corp. (Armonk, NY) is a computer company. The largest computer company in the world. Under the general umbrella of "information technology" (IT), IBM invents, designs, and manufactures computer hardware and software, network systems and components, storage devices, and microelectronics. Complementing this raft of hardware and software, IBM also provides design, implementation, management, and operational services. In fact, those services are an increasingly large part of the "big iron" from IBM.
IBM's roots date back to the mid-1880s. In 1885, Julius E. Pitrap of Gallipolis, OH, patented his computing ...