Dress Code at IBM
A dark (or gray) suit, white shirt, and a "sincere" tie was the public uniform for IBM employees for most of the 20th century. During IBM's management transformation in the 1990s, CEO Louis.V Gestner, Jr. relaxed these codes, normalizing the dress and behavior of IBM employees to resemble their counterparts in other large technology companies. Since then IBM's dress code is business casual although employees often wear formal clothes during client meetings.
What is open Architecture?
Open architecture is a type of computer architecture or software architecture that allows adding, upgrading and swapping components.
Who invented the PCs’ first operating system? What was it called?
Bill Gates invented PC's first operating system and it was called Ms.Dos.
What is a Patent?
Patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by state (national government) to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of an invention.
How much is IBM worth currently? How much is Microsoft worth currently? How would you predict this would have varied if IBM had collaborated with Microsoft?
IBM = approx. $40 million
Microsoft = $227.89 billion
IBM would have been more successful if they would have collaborated with Microsoft because there is a lot of difference between their worth rates.
In comparing Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, what are the similarities to their success?
Both were proficient software programmers
Both founded a company in their 20s
Both have stolen ideas for software applications or development from others
Both are left outs from Harvard University
Both are nerds and not very handsome
Both faced copyrights issues and legal disputes
Applications or softwares they built, changed the I.T. world
Both paid large sums of money to end lawsuits
Both of them wrote their first computer programs while attending high school
Triumph of the nerds
