IBM PowerHA ( formerly HACMP ) is IBM's solution for high-availability clusters on the AIX Unix and Linux for IBM System p platforms and stands for High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing.

This technical leadership and the rivalry with IBM was emphasized when the Systempro server was launched in late 1989-this was a true server product with standard support for a second CPU and RAID, but also the first product to feature the EISA bus, designed in reaction to IBM's MCA ( MicroChannel Architecture ).

There, he convinced IBM's executives to deploy GML commercially in 1978 as part of IBM's Document Composition Facility product, and it was widely used in business within a few years.

* Micronetics Design Corporation with a product line called MSM for UNIX and Intel PC platforms ( later ported to IBM's VM operating system, VAX-VMS platforms and Alpha-VMS platforms )

IBM also released server editions of Warp 3 and Warp 4 which bundled IBM's LAN Server product directly into the operating system installation.

The confusion that resulted from IBM offering three overlapping product lines that weren't compatible with each other along with the sluggish performance of System / 38 significantly impacted IBM's sales.

Digital Equipment Corporation, at the time one of IBM's main competitors, exploited this weakness with their wide ranging VAX product line based on a single architecture, and actively promoted the compatibility between all machines in the family.

The System p, formerly known as RS / 6000, was IBM's RISC / UNIX-based server and workstation product line.

IBM Informix is a product family within IBM's Information Management division that is centered on several relational database management system ( RDBMS ) offerings.

Informix is often compared to IBM's other major database product, DB2, which is offered on the mainframe Z series platform as well as on Unix and Linux.

In general, they tried to offer a product to compete with any of IBM's, but running 10 % faster and costing 10 % less.

To support the RS / 6000 and RS / 6000 SP2 product lines in 1996, IBM had its own design team implement a single-chip version of POWER2, the P2SC (" POWER2 Super Chip "), outside the Apple / IBM / Motorola alliance in IBM's most advanced and dense CMOS-6S process.

The majority of the System 3000 range utilised IBM's Micro Channel architecture rather than the more prevalent ISA architecture, and utilised SCSI peripherals as well as the more popular parallel and serial port interfaces, resulting in a premium product with premium pricing.

* Retail Store Solutions, an IBM's product family

* APL VS, IBM's APL VS compiler program product.

* COBOL VS, IBM's COBOL VS compiler program product.

* Pascal VS, IBM's Pascal VS compiler program product.

The 3270 played a strategic role in IBM's product line, making its selection a natural choice for large data centers of the day.

At one time, CMS was also a major environment for e-mail and office productivity ; an important product was IBM's PROFS ( later renamed OfficeVision ).

The chips were widely criticized in product reviews for not offering the performance suggested by their names, and for the confusion caused by their naming similarity with Intel's SL line and IBM's SLC line of CPUs, neither of which was related to Cyrix's SLC.

Early minicomputer-based typesetting software introduced in the 1970s and early 1980s, such as Datalogics Pager, Penta, Atex, Miles 33, Xyvision, troff from Bell Labs, and IBM's Script product with CRT terminals, were better able to drive these electromechanical devices, and used text markup languages to describe type and other page formatting information.

As software became a significant part of IBM's offerings, the alpha test terminology was used to denote the pre-announcement test and beta test was used to show product readiness for general availability.

At the time, Sequent's CEO said its technology would " find its way through IBM's entire product field " and IBM announced it would " both sell Sequent machines, and fold Sequent's technology ... into its own servers ", but by May 2002 a decline in sales of the models acquired from Sequent, among other reasons, led to the retirement of Sequent-heritage products.

The name " ThinkPad " is a product of IBM's corporate history and culture.

AIX / 370 was IBM's third attempt to offer Unix-like functionality for their mainframe line, specifically the System / 370 ( the prior versions were a TSS / 370 based Unix system developed jointly with AT & T c. 1980, and VM / IX a VM / 370 based system developed jointly with Interactive Systems Corporation c. 1984 ).

By late 1983 it was clear that IBM's Token Ring would not be ready in time for the launch of the Mac, and might miss the launch of these other products as well.

In fact, IBM's share of the market at the time was so much larger than all of the others, that this group was often referred to as " IBM and the Seven Dwarfs.

There was speculation at the time, however, that the NSA has deliberately reduced the key size from the original value of 112 bits ( in IBM's Lucifer cipher ) or 64 bits ( in one of the versions of what was adopted as DES ) so as to limit the strength of encryption available to non-US users.

The expression ' time sharing ' was usually used to designate computers shared by interactive users at terminals, such as IBM's TSO, and VM / CMS

Hewlett-Packard had reported yearly revenues of $ 47 billion, while Compaq's was $ 40 billion, and the combined company would have been close to IBM's $ 90 billion revenues.

Detractors of the deal noted that buying Compaq was a " distraction " that would not directly help HP take on IBM's breadth or Dell Computer's direct sales model.

Overall, it has been suggested that the purchase of Compaq was not a good move for HP, due to the narrow profit margins in the commoditized PC business, especially in light of IBM's 2005 announcement to sell its PC division to Lenovo.

Coppersmith explains IBM's secrecy decision by saying, " that was because cryptanalysis can be a very powerful tool, used against many schemes, and there was concern that such information in the public domain could adversely affect national security.

Only Larry Ellison's Oracle started from a different chain, based on IBM's papers on System R, and beat IBM to market when the first version was released in 1978.

It was announced in September 1988 by a consortium of PC clone vendors ( the " Gang of Nine ") as a counter to IBM's use of its proprietary Micro Channel architecture ( MCA ) in its PS / 2 series.

Portability was a problem in the early days because there was no agreed standard — not even IBM's reference manual — and computer companies vied to differentiate their offerings from others by providing incompatible features.

Dorothy might have believed that the company could not deliver CP / M-86 on IBM's proposed schedule, as the company was busy developing an implementation of the PL / I programming language for Data General.

The first IBM PC model with an internal non-removable hard disk was IBM's model 5160, the XT.

The IBM 3270 display terminal subsystem was designed and developed by IBM's Kingston, NY, laboratory ( which later closed during IBM's difficult time in the mid-1990s ).

Possibly his first documented influence on a US company was IBM's option on his patents in 1946.

However shielded twisted pair was used in IBM's Token Ring implementation, and in 1984 StarLAN showed the potential of simple unshielded twisted pair by using Cat3 — the same simple cable used for telephone systems.