IBM Alive

IBM

KindCompany

Founded1911

StatusAlive

FoundersCharles Ranlett Flint

Also known asInternational Business Machines, Big Blue

The computing industry's first and largest titan — tabulators to System/360 to System z, and home to FORTRAN, APL, SQL, RISC, and more of the field's foundations than any other organization.

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Predecessors Tabulating Machine Company

Created Harvard Mark I IBM 701 IBM 650 IBM 704 FORTRAN IBM 709 IBM 7090/7094 RPG IBM System/360 PL/I APL OS/360 CP-67/CMS z/VM MVS SQL IBM PC AIX IBM RT PC OS/2 IBM AS/400 IBM i IBM System z z/OS

Acquisitions Lotus Development

Notable people Thomas J. Watson Sr. Kenneth E. Iverson Edgar F. Codd John Backus Don Chamberlin Ray Boyce

Formed as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in 1911, renamed International Business Machines in 1924 under Thomas J. Watson Sr. IBM dominated punched-card data processing, bet the company on System/360 in 1964, and defined the mainframe era — then nearly died missing the PC it created.

Its research arm generated a disproportionate share of the field's foundations: FORTRAN (1957), the relational model (1970), SQL, RISC architecture, DRAM, the floppy disk, and the hard drive itself.

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