[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Though IBM is often viewed as a stodgy old technology giant
focused primarily on delivering old-school solutions for big,
plodding enterprises, the company continues to churn out new ideas
and technologies that many never see.“When I think IBM, I typically think mainframe, COBOL, CICS, SOA
(service-oriented architecture), Web services, Java middleware and
Linux. I don’t think of Web 2.0 technologies like AJAX
(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), wikis, mashups and other
things…”