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> Compare the way IBM these days is just IBM, not International Business Machines. This is the second time I've seen someone make this claim online and I wonde
by tgflynn 7y ago
> Compare the way IBM these days is just IBM, not International Business Machines.
This is the second time I've seen someone make this claim online and I wonder where it comes from. IBM's name is still officially "International Business Machines Corporation (IBM Corp.)" according to this legal statement:
https://www.ibm.com/privacy/us/en/ https://www.ibm.com/privacy/us/en/.
As for how it's referred to in practice, I've always heard it called IBM for as long as I can remember (at least back to the 70's) and I think that's been the case for much longer.
- pm215 7y agoOops, my mistake. I did try to check my belief on the IBM website by looking for an 'about the company' section but it was so reader-hostile I gave up and assumed that IBM was the name they were going by these days. Arm is definitely Arm, though, not anything-risc-machines.