This giant's customers had the "Big Blues" until it announced Y2K transition support in 1995
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Download as a PDF - CiteSeerX  Slovenia has already joined to European Union, and other transition countries ...... host of IT initiatives all the customer support processes such as branch .... Aviva therefore went for a complete enterprise wide launch of e-CRM before it ...... diversified giant with 96 companies operating in seven different business sectors).
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I, Cringely . Pulpit . Lean and Mean . Comments | PBS  May 4, 2007 ... My customers could rely on those folks to provide support within ...... The IBM pension plan freeze for YE 2007 was announced back in Jan 2006 ...... IBM has been doing this since before the Y2K-Scam they perpetrated for over 5 years! ...... During the 'LEAN' transition, the US workforce is being expected to...
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Y2K WAS A CATEGORY ON JEOPARDY TODAY - Greenspun  "What year will the computers think it is when Y2K hit?" :) Alex Trebek, you outdid yourself! ... $400 - this giant's customers had the big blues until it announced Y2K transition support in 1995. $600 - the bug partly stems from 6...
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Briefing | The Economist  Mr Palmisano announced that IBM would invest a further $6 billion in India over the .... the American giant has done wellcertainly better than Accenture and EDS. .... The worst effects may not be felt until the mortgage payments of many ..... firms from 1995 to 2002, concludes that shares with voting rights in excess of...
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Do you play chess? Volyibol? Tenyisneya? Or should we sit in the ...  He had been dreaming so deep there was nothing left in his head. ... -A.T., Oct 29 1995 % "I just want a lover who'll make me chicken soup when I'm sick" -L, ..... and there with no support, apparently, except the personal magnetism of the wearer. ...... Songs include: "She Be Big, Maybe Too Big Blues," "Can I Has Yo Fish?
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Triumph of the Nerds: The Transcripts, Part III - PBS  Computer giant IBM was not amused and fought back, launching its own PC in 1981. ... graphical user interface - GUI or gooey - where they come up with these names. ... Many of the research team left Xerox, they started their own companies and ... Bob Metcalfe made enough from what he invented at PARC to furnish him...
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jeopardy/281_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THERE'S NO BUSINESS | In Jan. 2002 this undersea fiber optic telecom co. founded by Gary Winnick sank beneath the bankruptcy waves | Global Crossing.
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History of IBM - Wikipedia  International Business Machines, or IBM, nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational computer ..... In 1920, the company introduced the first complete school time control system, ..... Working on this massive computing and communications system, IBM ..... In 1970, GE sold most of its computer business to Honeywell and in 1971,...
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Windoze 98 eats shit! - Google Groups  Apr 24, 1998 ... >Sure, so you acknowledge that it very well might have failed before. Yes, but it might ... No, he didn't, he said "I guess" not that he was certain, and do you really ... >Between the two of them they know far more about Win98 then everyone .... >I guess we still have some bugs to work out," he said, smiling.
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Microsoft ordered to split into two companies | Technology | The ...  Jun 7, 2000 ... Microsoft ordered to split into two companies ... Wednesday 7 June 2000 17.50 EDT ... the global software giant for stifling computer-age competition. ... the ruling by US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson was not the last...
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History of IBM - Wikipedia  International Business Machines, or IBM, nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational computer .... instead of being dependent for earnings upon a single industry, would own ..... The emergence of the Cold War accelerated the government's growing .... 1956: First European research lab: IBM opens its first research lab outside...
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Amazon Finally Clicks - - CFO.com  Mar 24, 2004 ... The company posted its first indisputably (that is, GAAP-based) profitable ... That has prompted plenty of backslapping in the halls of Amazon's ... to offer the Earth's biggest selection of products, or as Szkutak puts it, to .... Amazon.com was founded that year, and its Website was launched in July 1995,...
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Read the IBM Case History  discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a management ... mainframes, which had been the company's primary strength, would ... their feedback, Gerstner came to the conclusion that IBM was worth more in the long run as a .... We wanted people to associate IBM with that new, ON Demand.
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J! Archive - Show #2914, aired 1997-04-10  The world's largest money-wiring service, it was sold in September 1994 for $1.15 billion ... In July this largest New Mexico city hosts a 3-day mariachi spectacular .... He completed his last play, "Buoyant Billions", when he was 92...
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Application Software for Insurance in the 1960s and Early 1970s  1401 tape computer, seems to have been the first--and was certainly the best ... example, noted that "If a company were to adopt CFO in its entirety, about 35 man- .... in 1965--ALIS (Advanced Life Insurance System) and PALIS (Property and ... dissatisfied former IBM salesman Ross Perot in 1962, EDS sold what came to be.
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In or Out, DJIA Companies Reflect Changing Times - WSJ  Mar 5, 2013 ... NEW YORKAs the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches the rarefied air .... The Dow hit 3000 on April 17, 1991, and raced past 6000 on Oct. 14, 1996, ... stake in the insurance giant in the wake of the subprime-mortgage crisis. ... indexa broader measure of the biggest U.S. traded companies by market...
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Ask me a trivia question - Discussion on Topix  Feb 20, 2010 ... $1.5 bil. in loan guarantees was the government's Christmas present to this company in December, 1979. Reply . Report Abuse Judge it!
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worldcom's collapse: the overview; worldcom files for bankruptcy  Jul 22, 2002 ... By SIMON ROMERO and RIVA D. ATLAS JULY 22, 2002 ... impact on customers, including the 20 million users of its MCI long-distance service.
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Y2K - Wikipedia  The Year 2000 problem is also known as the Y2K problem, the Millennium bug, the Y2K bug, .... Because this date could also be written in the numeric format 9/9/99, it could have ... Somewhat similar to this is the end-of-file code 9999 , used in older programming languages. ..... "Bank of Queensland hit by "Y2.01k" glitch".
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Working at Cymer | Glassdoor  Oct 18, 2016 ... Technology; Global Presence; Giving Back; Company ... How did Moore's Law impact the consumer electronics business model? ... Back in 1984 that DynaTAC would set you back $4000 (equivalent to ... What does this have to do with Cymer? ... Another point of pride: we're part of one of the world's largest...
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History of IBM - Wikipedia  International Business Machines, or IBM, nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a .... He hired the company's first disabled worker in 1914, he formed the...