IBM research: From lab to market Print E-mail
Posted by Kim Haverblad - Saturday, 19 June 2004

OS2 is mentioned within an article about Data mining, the ability to find unexpected patterns in accumulated data, was born during a lunch break.

The commercialization process isn't perfect. IBM invented the relational database, but Oracle became the first company to successfully take the concept to market. Attempts to unseat Microsoft's dominance in the PC industry with technologies like OS/2 and MicroChannel flopped. And RISC processors, which IBM has promoted heavily, sell in far fewer units than Intel-type chips do.

Entire article can be found here.

Source: zdnet

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