IBM

aka Big Blue

there was a time when "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" (now that's true for Microsoft - another Monoculture)

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

had some Nazi/Holocaust dealings:

• Edwin Black's IBM 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.