Technology dividend

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Technology dividend is an IBM term referring primarily to the lower software costs that accrue, ceteris paribus, when upgrading from one zSeries or System z9 server model to the next generation (e.g. from a z990 to a System z9-109).

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History	History of IBM Mergers and acquisitions Think (motto) Operating Systems

Products	Cell microprocessor Mainframe Personal Computer IBM Power Systems Information Management Lotus Software Rational SPSS ILOG Tivoli: Service Automation Manager WebSphere alphaWorks Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History Mashup Center PureQuery Redbooks FlashSystem Fortran

Business entities	Cloud computing Global Services jStart Research International

Facilities	Towers Montreal Atlanta Software Labs Rome Toronto IBM Buildings Chicago Johannesburg Seattle Research Labs Austin China Tokyo Zurich Haifa India Almaden Facilities Hakozaki Yamato IBM Scientific Center Hursley House Canada Head Office Building Thomas J. Watson Research Center IBM Rochester Somers Office Complex

Initiatives	Academy of Technology Centers for Advanced Studies: CASCON Deep Thunder IBM Fellow IBM Distinguished Engineer Pulse conference The Great Mind Challenge DeveloperWorks: Develothon Linux Technology Center IBM Virtual Universe Community Smarter Planet

Inventions	Automated teller machine (ATM) Electronic keypunch Hard disk drive Floppy disk DRAM Relational model Selectric Typewriter Financial swaps Universal Product Code Magnetic stripe card SABRE airline reservation system Scanning tunneling microscope

Terminology	Globally Integrated Enterprise Commercial Processing Workload Consumability Technology dividend e-business

CEOs	T. J. Watson (1914–1956) T. J. Watson, Jr. (1956–1971) T. V. Learson (1971–1973) F. T. Cary (1973–1981) J. R. Opel (1981–1985) J. F. Akers (1985–1993) L. V. Gerstner, Jr. (1993–2002) S. J. Palmisano (2002–2011) V. M. Rometty (2012–present)

Board of directors	Alain Belda William R. Brody Kenneth Chenault Michael L. Eskew David Farr Shirley Ann Jackson Andrew N. Liveris James McNerney James W. Owens Samuel J. Palmisano Virginia M. Rometty Joan E. Spero Sidney Taurel Lorenzo Zambrano

Other	A Boy and His Atom Common Public License/IBM Public License Customer engineer Deep Blue Deep Thought Dynamic infrastructure GUIDE International IBM and the Holocaust IBM international chess tournament Lucifer cipher Mathematica SHARE computing ScicomP Watson

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Technology dividend

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