It started with smoke and mirrors. It ended in darkness and fog. A case that made history: Cintrol Data (CDC) against IBM. More than that: a game of poker in which a quarter of a billion dollars was set against a database. Poker Face, William (Bill) C. Norris, president of CDC.
It began in 1964. In the delivery of comprehensive / 360 system, in which the computing world forward to the new generation waited, CDC tilled very successful, a market segment with the highly skilled, scientific calculator CDC 6600th With this system, dominated the multiprogramming and was designed for time-sharing, CDC joined a market gap that IBM had overlooked. Fully attuned to commercial, neglected the / 360 part of the scientific mainframe computer market so strong that Control Data sold not only, but also deserved. She was thus the first company to IBM, which ran the computer business at a profit. The idea was so simple that IBM would have been proud. For it was obvious. Two things settled, the CDC strategists:
- So far, no manufacturer in the upper range of technological and scientific applications targeted action.
- This area required minimal amount of software support, as scientists have developed their own software.
This strategy was so successful that IBM was nervous, which were by the / 360 situation already been attacked. comes to the motto "on a model now it no longer even announced they jauntily to the largest computer in the world.. the IBM 360-90 The early birth was dizzy addicted and never came out of the incubator But CDC got into a headlock. The 6600 jobs that Control Data had almost certainly been changed. In 1966, the company was in the red. Meanwhile, the waiting / 360-90-Purchaser on the delivery of the ordered trick box. In vain. The delivery dates were not implemented, ignoring the benefit plans, and with a nachgeschobenen / 360-91 was again battered image. The wind machines CDC gave a new impetus was given to doc h is still not satisfied. The new flight of CDC boss Norris was arrogant. "God damn, we will sue IBM," he swore end of 1968. So far he had only provoked. "IBM is out to ruin us. You can publish calm," he told a reporter.
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