Data Center Strategies for the CIO
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Question 1: The triumvirate that changed business Question 2: Race to market Question 3: The daddy of relational databases Question 4: The birth of DB2 Question 5: IBM and the Seven Dwarves
It's hard to overestimate the impact of the System 360, the granddaddy of the zSeries. Author James Collins considers it as one of the three most important business innovations of all time. Ford's Model T automobile is another. What is the third?
- A) Microsoft's Windows operating system
- B) Xerox copy machine
- C) Boeing 707 jet
- D) Post-It Note
Most people know a IBM researcher first proposed the idea behind relational databases but what company first came out with a commercial one?
By the way, what is the name of the IBMer who came up with the theory underlying relational databases?
What year was DB2 introduced?
During the '60s and '70s, people used to refer to the companies producing mainframes as "IBM and the Seven Dwarves." The list included Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR and Univac. What's the seventh?
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