IBM Centennial Film: They Were There – People who changed the way the world works
Jan.31, 2011 in
Airline Seat Sales
What does it mean to be an IBMer? Every employee experiences the company in different ways, but the global impact IBM has made on business and society over the last 100 years gives us all a common framework. “They Were There” is told by first-hand witnesses—current and retired employees and clients—who were there when IBM helped to change the way world works. For more information, please visit www.ibm100.com (www.ibm.com
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
Yo fui empleado de IBM por muchos años, los mas felices de mi vida desde el punto de vista laboral…
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
I was an IBMer. An interesting, exciting and enjoyable time.
-
01:15 They Were There
-
01:22 We were putting it all at risk
-
05:00 It was a complex problem that no one could solve
-
08:39 Set an example that others can follow
-
11:34 The task was fairly daunting
-
14:30 We were all in it together
-
18:51 We made the world smaller
-
21:56 It’s not going to be a one size fits all world
-
24:37 Our job is to invent
-
27:55 What every business needs is more people who think
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
@GreenFrogsRoseBeefs dipu.george@in.ibm.com
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
“Ich bin ein IBMer”
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
In 1981 I joined the embryonic (30 people)IBM Business Unit In Boca . We had two jobs: to develop and ship what the world now knows as the “IBM Personal Computer”, and open a retail distribution channel. PC was not in the lexicon until after the IBM PC was born. IBM’s genius was to adopt Open Architecture, and hire a team to help third party developers betting on this platform. Don Estridge deserves all credit, but is overlooked after he and Mary Ann were lost in a Delta crash in Dallas
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
amazing
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
@LemonPieLoL
It was IBM’s subsidiary which operating in Germany provided the Nazis with Hollerith equipment. However the only reason the subsidiary supplied the Nazi’s with Hollerith equipment was because the Nazi government took control of the subsidiary.
In using your gun scenario its as if one of your employees started supplying criminals with guns because the criminals forced your employee to do so. Also your employee is the criminals brother. It certainly wasn’t IBM’s fault.
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
Proud Ibmer !
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
@TubeTime99 Holy bejeezus. The world does not revolve around Apple.
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
Impressive and heart-warming. Imagine the next 100 years! I have been in this industry for 40 years.. there are no untruths in this video. Nicely done.
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
IBM S2
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
Where can I send my CV to become an IBMer ?
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
Great story and great music!!!
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
de verdad, aunque si los respeto como empresa, los momentos obscuros de IBM creo que si son, SUPER obscuros, tipo ENRON, obviamente el video es muy complaciente
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
@dingdongrb Glad the company has changed! I have long hair and three earrings. I’m an IBM manager in our Digital Strategy group — next week I celebrate my tenth year at IBM. No regrets
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
@brasusa98 explain to me how i am misinformed? inventing the gun does not make you a criminal, but regularly supplying criminals with guns, unfortunately for you, does. the point was that these computer were supplied to the nazis with the knowledge of what they were used for, not to mention they were maintained by IBM. doing such dirty work for a dollar is unethical, if anyone begs to differ, they show themselves up for the complete fools that they are.
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
@LemonPieLoL You are quite misinformed. Educate yourself a little more and you will see what really happened back then. If one has to follow your line of thought, you may want to blame the Greeks who started it all by starting a way of counting numbers. The Hollerith machines were just a much more advanced way to tabulating and sorting. Will you blame the Wright brothers and/or Santos Dumont for having invented the airplanes that were used for destroying and killing people?
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
all i wanna do is play pacman. so i’ll just invent a faster computer with 12 people in a couple months. nbd
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
@dingdongrb
IBM thanks you for having left the company. We don’t need persons like you.
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
@humanpower For the current architecture. Motherboard, volatile, non-volatile memory, monitor and so on.
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
What a great video – I am proud to be an IBMer.
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
@dingdongrb: I grew up in an IBM company town and I swore I would never work for IBM. Alas, here I am in my 15th year. There are still some of that corporate cultural force that you reference within the halls of IBM, but there has been a lot of change in the last 30 years. In fact, if you can get beyond some of IBMs quirky ‘mannerisms’, it really is a progressive, well managed company.
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
Watched it on my BB Torch. Nice.
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
@ProfessorKaos64 yeah, not to mention that IBM helped the nazis categorise germany;s population into jews, homosexuals, gypsies and special needs through the use of punch card computers. in fact IBM proved invaluable for the systematic destruction of those who did not fit the bill. ( no pun intended ).
January 31st, 2011 at 6:22 am
Interesting , but still does not dismiss the tyrannical nature of the company, as evidenced in the 80′s and 90′s.