On Dec 4, 2008, at 6:07 PM, James E. Therrault wrote:

>
> I have worked with IBM as a contractor and generally this company  
> was a
> large inflexible monolith where the term "innovation" was virtually a
> non entity.

For the manufacturing, integration and operations arms of the company,  
yes, hence the essentially guerilla nature of the original PC  
development operation in Boca. (which I'm fairly certain was the model  
for the Pirates of the Mac development team.)

On the other hand, IBM's research operations have been a massive font  
of innovation.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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