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= History =

Past
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or, colloquially, Big Blue; NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century; it was founded in 1888 and incorporated as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R) on June 15, 1911, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1916. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

Since 2001, services and consulting (Global Service) revenues have been larger than those from manufacturing (Hardware). Significantly, IBM has also been steadily increasing its workforce in developing countries and retrenching in the US and Europe. Samuel J. Palmisano was elected CEO on January 29, 2002 after having led IBM's Global Services, and helping it to become a business with $100 billion in backlog in 2004.

IBM has engineers and consultants in over 170 countries and IBM Research has eight laboratories, all located in the Northern Hemisphere, with five of those locations outside of the United States. IBM employees have earned five Nobel Prizes, four Turing Awards, five National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science.

Present
2006 year-end from continuing worldwide operations

Revenue: $91.4 billion

Stock Symbol: NYSE:IBM

Net income: $9.4 billion

Total assets: $103.2 billion

Number of employees (worldwide): 355,766

Stockholders of record: 613,993

IBM is the largest information technology company in the world and holds more patents than any other technology company.

Future
Since 1998, IBM claims that the installed base of Lotus Notes has nearly tripled from an estimated 42 million seats in September 1998 to more than 130 million in 2007.

While the future of any product in the technology sector cannot be predicted, IBM has made announcements that indicate that it continues to invest heavily in research and development on the Lotus Notes product line. Notes 8, which was previously code-named "Hannover" will incorporate Notes into a larger Eclipse framework and will include support for "productivity editors" based on the OpenDocument format.

A Linux version of Notes 7.0.1 is already built on Eclipse, and a beta of Notes 8 is tested by more than 100 companies participant. In addition, IBM executive Ken Bisconti has made public comments on several occasions asserting that there will be releases 8, 9 and 10 of Notes and Domino. So the old slogan "Nobody fails following IBM !" is still up to date.

=Web access=

Internet
IBM PartnerWorld

IBM Innovation Centers

Intranet
Blue Pages

IBM Greenhouse social network

Alumni network

IBM InnovationJam

Extranet
Campaign Designer

IBM Certifications by product with prometric

IBM resource for developers

IBM Best practices for wiki domino

Wiki Global InnovationJam =Notes=