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2009: The year by IBM celebrates a lot of anniversaries, and to 100 years in Germany must prepare

2009 is the year in which the IBM Users Association GSE in Germany is 50 years old. 2009 is the year in which IBM contributes in the U.S. for 85 years with IBM. 2009 is the year in which its German subsidiary, the former German Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft, rechristened the International Bureau in Germany machines, from IBM Germany.
in all of this is already a curiosity: the IBM Germany is actually older than their American mother. While IBM Corp.. their birth with the arrival of Thomas J. Watson Senior 1 May 1914 indicating celebrates the IBM Germany in 1910 as its founding year. Back then in Berlin, the German Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft (Dehomag) out of the baptism. Reason enough, in 2009 already be celebrating in detail the history of IBM - especially as the selling agency in October 2009, 25 years ago that the book "Into the blue - IBM and its competitors" was released. The author Raymond Vollmer. He accompanied the history of IBM since 1975 and has built up to an extensive archive. "Blue Wonder" will be published here as a diary.
addition, the IBM Users Association GUIDE SHARE EUROPE (GSE) in 2009 for half a century old. This is also an important occasion, the history of IBM and its customers in Review.

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3:13 Strategy comparison

These figures evaluate a different strategy to both companies in the market penetrated Remington sought success in the full range of office equipment. A homogeneous distribution organization was thus not possible. This led to considerable friction.
The structured sales organization Watson was the competitor that diversification in product range leads to frustration in the profit sector. The concentration led to the explosion that changed the market landscape for decades in favor of IBM.
In this situation, in which frittered away the only competitor, IBM was able to cultivate a Stratgie that tied her to her customers completely. Punch-card machines were then rented exclusively. This was the constant Connection ensures the customer. This ratio was even deepened by the user to the group forced to use only IBM punch cards. This justification has been advanced that sounded plausible but it was not. The VBs argued, as now, when it comes to mixed hardware goes, "Our extensive demands on the punch card will be determined by the machine, it is feared that enough punch cards that are beyond our quality control, not the performance characteristics of our products this could be.. malfunctions cause for which we can of course take no responsibility. "
1936 forbade the Supreme Court of the United States, this Koppelei and ordered the first unbundling. Consequences: zero. For fleichzeitig IBM was raised to the punch-card MOT: you certain only the quality of the cards could be run with those on their products.
The dominance in the punch-card business remained unaffected. She was then also the prerequisite for success with computers, and the competitors looked back into the tube.