 | The examples and perspective in this article is very focused on pre-WW2 and may not represent a full view of the subject. (March 2021) |
IBM has had business internationally since before the company had a name. Early leaders of the companies that would eventually become IBM (Mr Hollerith, Mr Flint, and Mr Watson) all were involved in doing international business.[1]
In those early days, IBM had 70 foreign branches and subsidiaries worldwide.[2] Competitors in the pre-World War II era included Remington Rand, Powers, Bull, NCR, Burroughs, and others.[3]
- ^ Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation. New York: Crown/Random House, 2001. Please see chapter 2, passim.
- ^ Black, IBM and the Holocaust, pg. 44.
- ^ Before the computer by James W. Cortada, Princeton University Press, 2000.