As Berger Heede suggested, the answer can be found on wikipedia: General consensus is that the term was first prominently used in a thesis of the Goldman Sachs investment bank. The main point of this 2003 paper was to argue that the economies of the BRICs are rapidly developing and by the year 2050 will eclipse most of the current richest countries of the world. Finally, due to the popularity of the Goldman Sachs thesis, "BRIC" has since become a more generic marketing term to refer to these four countries, or even to newly industrialized countries in general.
More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIC Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:28 PM So I would guess the "qualifying" trait would be one of the names Brazil, Russia, India or China. And since that was posted by an IBMer, it's possible BRIC is an "IBM Internal" acronym that just got externalized. -jc- ######################################################################## As of January 1, 2007, Ben E. Keith Company will no longer accept emails addressed to our "bekco.com" address. Please change your information for all Ben E. Keith contacts to our new email address, "benekeith.com". Thank you. ######################################################################## ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
