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Which company has had the best impact on IT?

By jasonhiner Moderator ·
The TechRepublic poll question for the week of 9/26/2005 is "Which company do think has had the best impact on the use of information technology over the past two decades?
Apple
Microsoft
Google
Cisco Systems
IBM"

Let us know which company you chose and why. Or, if there's a different company that you would choose, name that company and explain why you think they had the best impact.

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Rock Tenn

by BFilmFan In reply to Which company has had the ...

Cause they create all the packaging boxes with logos that the computers come in.

A close second is Inland-Temple Paper cause they make the paper that we print reams of in the "paperless offices."

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Trees

by seahawkblue In reply to Rock Tenn

Next time we look at a "tree" We should thank Microsoft, Every E-Mail, all White papers save a tree . Hats off to microsoft!

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Not really, they

by Tony Hopkinson In reply to Trees

get printed out for discussion, or they are from the unfit bloke two cubicles down. In fact they are why we have a rep for being anti-social propeller heads, who carnt splel.

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Bell Labs

by Absolutely In reply to Which company has had the ...

...employed the team that developed the transistor in 1947, announced in 1948.

http://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/belllabs_transistor1.html

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Bell Labs

by jdmercha In reply to Bell Labs

Assuming we really mean "Best". Bell labs is the winner, hands-down.

But if we really mean "biggest" then Microsoft edges out IBM.

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Good answer but out of time period

by CharlieSpencer In reply to Bell Labs

The question specifies within the last 20 years.

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Unix and C

by jdmercha In reply to Good answer but out of ti ...

Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (199
For creating the UNIX* operating system and C Language.

Check out http://www.bell-labs.com/about/history/unix/

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Yes I would have to agree here

by HAL 9000 Moderator In reply to Unix and C

Unix was by far the best thing that has so far come out of any company to help society today.

MS on the other hand has undone all the great work that was done by these people who developed Unix as you needed to know how to actually use a computer back then. Now there are trained chimps being paid with bananas using Windows boxes and complaining that they don't work right.

Col ]:)

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Xerox had a "global" influence

by Surflover In reply to Which company has had the ...

After all, the icon based interface that we ALL use to drive our workstations, Windows, mac, Xwindows, etc. (and having begun my career with punch cards I am very greatful for :-)... was invented by Xerox... (they just couldn't figure out how to sell it)

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What about

by Neil Higgins In reply to Xerox had a "global" infl ...

Robert Noyce,who founded Intel.Without micro-processor's,where on earth would we be?

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