IBM Centennial Film: They Were There – People who changed the way the world works
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What does it mean to be an IBMer? Every employee experiences the company in different ways, but the global impact IBM has made on business and society over the last 100 years gives us all a common framework. "They Were There" is told by first-hand witnesses—current and retired employees and clients—who were there when IBM helped to change the way world works. For more information, please visit www.ibm100.com (www.ibm.com
January 9th, 2012 - 03:19
Why should I buy from this company when they would rather hire an indian instead of me?
youtube.com/watch?v=WHWy8KLbygw
January 9th, 2012 - 03:47
Damn IBM sure nails their videos.
January 9th, 2012 - 04:18
I love the Philip Glass soundtrack.
January 9th, 2012 - 04:58
Hello, I am a Mac.
January 9th, 2012 - 05:38
Most INSPIRING clip I have seen in a while> Well done.
January 9th, 2012 - 06:33
these are the real genius of computer engineering.
January 9th, 2012 - 07:12
A new thing is being developed by IBM. It´s called intelligence and will prove useful in several areas. Considering the funding, people must think it´s a joke, but it´s probably not!
January 9th, 2012 - 07:45
IBM supplied the technology, not just the parts, that allowed the Nazis to categorize people – particularly people who the Nazis wanted to remove from their society.
I agree that this should not be the only matter that IBM is judged for, however, the video is, without such acknowledgement, instant propaganda. They are painting over the ugly parts by omitting information in several categories (such as the story of IBM’s involvement with barcodes).
January 9th, 2012 - 08:29
También soy una ex-IBM’ista. Y siento que estuve allí para ver cómo iba a ser este futuro que ya está. I am also a former IBM’er. And I just feel that I have been there to foresee our present.
January 9th, 2012 - 09:07
I am a former IBMer. Proud of our heritage.
January 9th, 2012 - 09:21
BEST commercial i’ve ever seen.
January 9th, 2012 - 09:44
I’m an IBMer!!! And I’m proud of it!!
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January 9th, 2012 - 10:42
@lenzkevn – You’re missing the point, genius. It’s not about condemning companies that cooperated with the Nazis (I’ve owned a couple of VWs). It’s not about tarring all IBMers who weren’t even born when IBM was making its pact with the Devil. This is what it’s about: acknowledging the past, not hiding it. Telling the whole truth, not rewriting history à la 1984 (that’s a George Orwell novel). (29 years? Been laid off yet?)
January 9th, 2012 - 11:39
@MrHoneycake @MrHoneycake Actually that’s incorrect. There is no record that IBM’s computers in Nazi Germany did anything to help the Nazi’s with their holocaust. All they did was sell them computers. I’m sure the North Korean gov’t, Chinese Gov’t, Myanmar gov’t, Iranian Gov’t, etc, use Apple or Windows products whether or not they were sold directly from those two companies. Should Apple or Microsoft be chastised as well since their products may be helping those gov’ts keep on functioning?
January 9th, 2012 - 12:23
@MrHoneycake Actually that’s incorrect. There is no record that IBM’s computers in Nazi Germany did anything to help the Nazi’s with their holocaust. All they did was sell them computers. I’m sure the North Korean gov’t, Chinese Gov’t, Myanmar gov’t, Iranian Gov’t, etc, use Apple or Windows products whether or not they were sold directly from those two companies. Should Apple or Microsoft be chastised as well since their products may be helping those gov’ts keep on functioning?
January 9th, 2012 - 12:53
Complaint with IBM China CSR on Centenial
Please Google:
Tragedy of Labor Rights Repression in IBM China
January 9th, 2012 - 13:00
IBM became successful by supplying Nazi Germany so they can run their camps. I’m American and it broke my heart when I found out. To think what greedy bastards will do for money.
January 9th, 2012 - 13:22
@Pundit2k IBM supported the Master Race. I thought you were referring to the Third Reich. My mistake.
January 9th, 2012 - 14:17
@Hyuiolosa No, I didn’t. What does this have to do with Nazism?
January 9th, 2012 - 14:53
@Pundit2k I think you meant Master Race documentary.
January 9th, 2012 - 15:47
@spinoza1111 “means you’re* a thug…”
January 9th, 2012 - 16:33
@fitzlegit You probably are bad at your job. I’ve always believed (over a thirty year career in software including assisting John Nash at Princeton and publishing a book on compilers) that functional illiterates (who write, for example, “your” instead of “you’re” shouldn’t program, and the late Edsger Dijkstra would agree. The customer engineers can’t fix a mainframe that you screw up every time they leave. And to say someone is a rapist online means your a thug with anger management issues,
January 9th, 2012 - 16:50
@spinoza1111 lol you look like a rapist and you dont even know what i do for a living. We’ve had ibm come in over 20 times to “fix” the computers and they get worse so why do you feel like you have to say im bad at my job? is it because your a fucking troll who works for ibm? lol also idk what your arguing about troll because it looks like your agreeing that IBM helped the nazis. Bottom line, it proves the company doesnt give a shit about people.
January 9th, 2012 - 17:38
That’s so weird that they forgot to mention how IBM helped the nazi’s keep track of all the jews during the holocaust
January 9th, 2012 - 17:58
This is what makes our county so great people with ideas and the ability to pursue them. Thank you ibm for your contubtion to this idea america is the greatest country in the world!!!