aka [BigBlue]

there was a time when "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" (now that's true for Micro Soft - another Mono Culture)

makes of [Web Sphere] Application Server and [DB2] Relational Data Base.

had some Nazi/Holo Caust dealings:

• [Edwin Black]'s [I B M And The Holocaust] ISBN:0609607995

  • http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/ official book website

  • quote from a review

  • http://us.cnn.com/2001/LAW/03/columns/fl.sebok.IBM.holocaust.03.15/ The 1937 and 1939 censuses, designed with the assistance to IBM through its German subsidiary, could calculate the degree of Jewish heritage for any given citizen... One is left with the impression that until the war broke out, IBM intended to continue to "arm" Germany as long as it could... Black's point, as I understand it, is that the lesson that we should take from the IBM story is moral, not legal.

• lawsuit against them dropped March2001 to avoid delays in plaintiffs getting paid out of fund already created in Germany.

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