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alphaWorks is IBM's "emerging technology portal". It is a web community for early adopters to preview and collaborate on prototype technology from IBM Research labs.

alphaWorks was founded in August 1996, in IBM's Advanced Technology group (called "Internet Division" at the time). The alphaWorks program has launched early release technology implementations in nascent technology communities of software developers, in areas like Java(TM) technology, XML and web services. Since 1996, alphaWorks has succeeded in helping IBM connect with innovative developers to lead the development of promising new standards, products and open source technology. alphaWorks is a key aspect of the developerWorks resource for developers.

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International Business Machines Corporation

Public (NYSE:  IBM )
Founded 1889, incorporated 1911
Headquarters Armonk, New York, USA

Key people Samuel J.
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Diffusion is the process by which a new idea or new product is accepted by the market. The rate of diffusion is the speed that the new idea spreads from one consumer to the next.
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Java

Paradigm: Object-oriented, structured, imperative
Appeared in: 1995
Designed by: Sun Microsystems
Typing discipline: Static, strong, safe, nominative
Major implementations: Numerous
Influenced by: Objective-C, C++, Smalltalk, Eiffel,[1]
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Extensible Markup Language

File extension: .xml
MIME type: application/xml, text/xml (deprecated)
Uniform Type Identifier: public.xml
Developed by: World Wide Web Consortium
Type of format: Markup language
Extended from: SGML
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The W3C defines a Web service (many sources also capitalize the second word, as in Web Services) as "a software system designed to support interoperable Machine to Machine interaction over a network.
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developerWorks is a website run by IBM for software developers. It contains a large number of how-to articles and tutorials, as well as software downloads and code samples, discussion forums, podcasts, blogs, wikis, and other resources for developers and technical professionals.
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International Business Machines Corporation

Public (NYSE:  IBM )
Founded 1889, incorporated 1911
Headquarters Armonk, New York, USA

Key people Samuel J.
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Business law
Business organizations
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Sole proprietorship
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Business trust · LLC · LLLP
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director is an officer (that is, someone who works for the company) charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. A director may be an inside director (a director who is also an officer or promoter or both) or an outside, or independent, director.
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Kenneth Irvine Chenault (born Long Island, June 2, 1951[1]) has been the CEO and Chairman of American Express since 2001.[2] [3] He was the third African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company.[4]

He received a B.A.
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Michael L. Eskew is the chairman and Chief Executive Officer, United Parcel Service. He is currently on the Board of 3M and IBM.

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  • Vincennes Rivet High School
  • Purdue University

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Shirley Ann Jackson (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She received her Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, only the second African-American woman to earn a Ph.D.
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James W. Owens is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Caterpillar Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. He has held the posts since 1 February 2004.

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Samuel J. Palmisano (born July 29, 1951) is the current Chairman, CEO, and President of IBM, one of the world's largest IT companies. He was elected Chairman in October 2002, effective January 1, 2003, and has served as Chief Executive Officer since March 2002.
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Sidney Taurel (born February 9, 1949 in Casablanca, Morocco) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Eli Lilly and Company, a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical corporation.
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Lorenzo H. Zambrano Treviño (b. 1945 in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) is a Mexican businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of CEMEX, one of the largest cement companies in the world.

Zambrano was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León into an upper-class family.
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Cell is a microprocessor architecture jointly developed by a Sony, Toshiba, and IBM, an alliance known as "STI." The architectural design and first implementation were carried out at the STI Design Center in Austin, Texas over a four-year period beginning March 2001 on a budget
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IBM mainframes, though perceived as synonymous with mainframe computers in general due to their marketshare, are now technically and specifically IBM's line of business computers that can all trace their design evolution to the IBM System/360.
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IBM PC Series IBM Personal Computer XT • IBM Portable Personal Computer • IBM PCjr ?

IBM PC (model 5150)
Type Personal computer
Released August 12, 1981
Discontinued April 2, 1987
Processor Intel 8088 @ 4.
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POWER is a RISC instruction set architecture designed by IBM. The name is a backronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC.
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Information Management Software is one of the brands within IBM's Software Group division. The major Information Management products include[1]:
  • DB2 — relational database management system (RDBMS)

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Lotus Software

Public
Founded 1982
Headquarters Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Industry Computer software
Products Lotus Connections
Lotus Domino
Lotus Expeditor
Lotus Forms
Lotus Notes
Lotus Quickr
Lotus Sametime
Lotus Symphony
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Rational Machines was founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly explicit modular architecture and iterative development. Rational was sold for $2.
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Tivoli Software is the systems management brand of the IBM Software Group. IBM purchased Austin-based Tivoli Systems, Inc. in 1996[1] and allowed it to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary for a few years before forming the Software Group.
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WebSphere refers to a brand of IBM software products that are mostly proprietary[1], although the term also popularly refers to one specific product: WebSphere Application Server (WAS).
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IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries.
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IBM India Private Limited

Private
Founded 1992 (re-entry, after an exit in the 1970s)
Headquarters

Key people Shanker Annaswamy, Country Manager & South Asia Head
Rajesh Nambiar, Vice President & GM, Global Delivery, IBM India
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IBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones since they almost exactly duplicated all the significant features of the PC, XT, or AT internal design,
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