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  Amdahl Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Amdahl Corporation was founded by Dr. Gene Amdahl, a former IBM employee, in 1970, and specializes in IBM mainframe-compatible computer products.
Amdahl was a major supplier of large mainframe computers, and later of UNIX and Open systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, application development software, and a variety of educational and consulting services.
Gene Amdahl was committed to expanding the capabilities of the the uniprocessor mainframe during the late '70s and early 80's.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amdahl_Corporation   (981 words)

  
 Gene Amdahl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amdahl was born to immigrant parents in Flandreau, South Dakota.
In November 2004, Amdahl was appointed to the Board of Advisors of Massively Parallel Technologies.
Amdahl was named an IBM Fellow in 1965, became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1967 and was recognized as the Centennial Alumnus of South Dakota State University in 1986.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gene_Amdahl   (713 words)

  
 Amdahl Corporation - Computing Reference - eLook.org
Amdahl is a major supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and consulting services.
Amdahl products are sold in more than 30 countries for use in both open systems and IBM plug-compatible mainframe computing environments.
In 1997 Amdahl became a division of Fujitsu.
www.elook.org /computing/amdahl-corporation.htm   (61 words)

  
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Gene Myron Amdahl was born in Flandreau, South Dakota in 1922.
Amdahl initially worked on machine designs for character recognition and simulation studies to determine if a machine could be made to behave like a human brain.
Amdahl Corporation became the biggest threat to IBM's domination of the mainframe market and forced IBM to re-align its marketing strategies to take PCM manufacturers into account.
ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/amdahl-bio-core-1-4.html   (1211 words)

  
 Computer History Museum - Lectures - The Founding of Amdahl Corporation
His early professional career was spent at IBM where he worked on simulation studies and machine design for character recognition as designer and project manager for the IBM 704; as initial planner for the IBM 709 and 7030; and as Manager of Architecture for the IBM System/360.
Amdahl is perhaps best known for founding Amdahl Corporation, one of IBM's main competitors.
Amdahl Corporation was the first successful IBM-compatible CPU manufacturer, opening the door for competition to advance technology.
www.computerhistory.org /events/lectures/amdahl_09052001   (421 words)

  
 Trammell Crow Company - Commercial Real Estate Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Amdahl CEO, David B. Wright, characterized the transaction as a win-win situation for Amdahl, its employees and TCC: “The agreement gives Amdahl the flexibility to respond to changing business requirements while providing expanded growth opportunities for our employees.” The agreement is expected to create significant savings for Amdahl over the term of the contract.
Amdahl Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, provides integrated computing solutions that meet the needs of many of the largest users of information technology in the world.
DMR Consulting Group, Inc. (www.dmr.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amdahl Corporation, is a leading international provider of e.consulting services and business solutions to the Fortune 500, governments and organizations of all size.
www.trammellcrow.com /newsdetail.asp?PressID=427   (451 words)

  
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Amdahl operates distribution and integration centers in Sunnyvale, Calif., its headquarters, and in Chicago and Dallas.
Amdahl Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited; a leading provider of information technology products and solutions for the global marketplace with revenues of $37.7 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1998.
Amdahl provides integrated enterprise computing solutions designed to meet the needs of the leading, most compute-intensive environments around the world.
www.baxglobal.com /PressOffice/NewsReleases1999/amdahl0899.html   (490 words)

  
 Leavey School of Business : Corporate Community : LSB Advisory Board : Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
In addition to his corporate responsibilities, he is a Board Member of the Santa Clara County United Way, Industry Advisor for the Bay Area Black MBA Association, Board Member of the San Francisco Exploratorium, and a Board Member of the Technology Center of Silicon Valley.
Chuck Kissner was elected CEO and a director of Digital Microwave Corporation in July 1995 and became Chairman of the Board in August 1996.
Lee originally co-founded Qume Corporation in 1973 and served as Executive Vice President until it was acquired by ITT Corporation in 1978.
lsb.scu.edu /corporate/advisoryprofiles.htm   (6840 words)

  
 Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI) The New Choice in Mainframe Computers.
Amdahl’s leadership led to assignments in the design of the IBM 709 and IBM 7030.
Amdahl is best known for founding Amdahl Corporation in 1970, for it became one of IBM's principal competitors and the first successful IBM compatible manufacturer.
Amdahl has a B.S. in Engineerings Physics from South Dakota University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Wisconsin.
www.platform-solutions.com /about-advisory.php   (315 words)

  
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The new Amdahl systems will be called the SPARCsummit (TM) 6400E series and will be available with up to 64 processors, 16 gigabytes (billion bytes) of main memory and 256 gigabytes of disk storage.
Amdahl Corporation is a major supplier of large scale mainframe computers, UNIX system software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, application development software, and a variety of educational and consulting services.
Amdahl products are sold in more than thirty countries for use across all types of computing environments.
dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/pipexdsl/r/arzz09/CrayWWWStuff/prfoldercomp/CRAY_AMDAHL_AGMT.950228.txt   (446 words)

  
 CPA Journal Online
Amdahl contracts with relocation service companies (RSCs) to assist these employees with the sale of their residences.
(Amdahl had no capital gains for these years.) The IRS argued that the employees sold the residences to the RSC, which was Amdahl's agent.
Amdahl's control of the sales to third parties and its assumption of the risk of loss on these sales were necessary to achieve its objectives.
www.nysscpa.org /cpajournal/1997/0997/sept/997nv3.htm   (643 words)

  
 Network Appliance - 
Amdahl, expert in delivering information technology products and solutions for the global marketplace, and NetApp, the leader in providing network-attached storage (NAS) and management solutions, will work together to expand the worldwide deployment of network-centric storage solutions.
Amdahl's solutions practices--derived from three decades of experience in the deployment and integration of mission-critical systems--will provide infrastructure services individually tailored to customers who purchase Network Appliance products from Amdahl.
Amdahl is a registered trademark and LVS is a trademark of Amdahl Corporation.
www.netapp.com /news/press/NEWS_REL_991011A?fmt=print   (845 words)

  
 FCIA Member Company Press Release - May 2, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Amdahl and McDATA have answered the challenge with the SAN University curriculum.
Amdahl contributes extensive data center expertise and fiber optic infrastructure experience and an open, non-proprietary SAN solutions approach.
Amdahl is a registered trademark and SAN University is a trademark of Amdahl Corporation.
www.fibrechannel.org /press/mcdata000502.html   (675 words)

  
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Additionally, Amdahl and Sun intend to offer a wide range of consulting and professional services, to assist customers with enterprise-wide planning, installation, migration, education and management tasks, creating a comprehensive family of integrated business solutions.
In addition to marketing the new line of products, Amdahl continues to be a major supplier of powerful mainframe computers, data storage subsystems, UNIX system software, applications development and production software, and a wide range of educational and consulting services.
Amdahl and UTS are registered trademarks of Amdahl Corporation.
www.ualberta.ca /~neitsch/sunsite.ualberta.ca/sun-info/sunflash/1993/Sep/SunFlash:-57.23-SMI-and-Amdahl-Announce-Major-Agreements   (1130 words)

  
 Amdahl Corp. Receives State Award, January 29, 1997 News Release
Amdahl has recycled its waste wood and cardboard since 1993 and other materials long before that.
Combined with existing recycling efforts, Amdahl's new programs already exceed the state goal of sending 50 percent less trash to landfills in the year 2000.
Amdahl earns from $250,000 to $500,000 net yearly income from the sale of recycled materials.
www.ciwmb.ca.gov /Pressroom/1997/Jan/NR006.HTM   (438 words)

  
 1999-09-15 0227 Interview Jim Duport, Manager, Amdahl Corporation
Amdahl Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, is a leading provider of information technology products and solutions for the global marketplace.
Amdahl has embraced e-commerce and, in time, e-commerce may also impact the sales force and the selling process.
Duport: Amdahl's old real estate process used a single local contact in cities where we were doing a transaction, typically working with a broker with whom we had a previous relationship, with the key being local knowledge.
www.pikenet.com /dispatch/dispatch99/dispatch0227.html   (492 words)

  
 SUN ULTRA ENTERPRISE SERVERS POST RECORD SAP R/3 PERFORMANCE USING A CENTRALIZED CONFIGURATION
Amdahl is very effective in providing that mission-critical service and support, consulting and professional services that companies like Dow Corning require in implementing large-scale projects like SAP R/3," said Ed Zander, president of Sun Microsystems Computer Company.
Amdahl and SAP are key partners in Sun's BusinessWareTM program, which combines business applications from leading software vendors and services from system integrators for corporations seeking to take full advantage of their networks.
Amdahl and its subsidiaries provide professional and operational consulting services that help clients gain a competitive advantage in their industries.
www.sun.com /smi/Press/sunflash/1996-05/sunflash.960528.7388.xml   (998 words)

  
 Eugene Amdahl's Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Gene Myron Amdahl received his B.S. in Engineering Physics from South Dakota State University in 1948, and earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1952.
In the first full year of shipments, Amdahl Corporation shipped $96 million of product, the second full year $190 million, and the third year $320 million.
Andor International, Ltd. was founded by Dr. Amdahl in 1987 to continue innovations in technology.
www.actscorp.com /acts/amdahl.htm   (275 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Amdahl Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
With more than 28 years of experience delivering large-scale computing and client/server technology, the Amdahl mission is to deliver innovative systems, services and support to lead customers to the most complete and powerful data centers of the 21st century.
Amdahl Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, develops and deploys systems, services, and support that exceed the needs of the world's most compute-intensive corporations and governments.
Amdahl Corporation provides integrated computing solutions that meet the needs of many of the largest users of information technology in the world.
www.zoominfo.com /Search/CompanyDetail.aspx?CompanyID=1507524&cs=QDFwDElg   (409 words)

  
 Business Wire: Amdahl Selects Sun Netra t 1120 Server for the ... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Amdahl continues to raise the bar by providing products and services that help customers gain a competitive advantage in their industries.
Amdahl Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, provides integrated enterprise computing solutions designed to meet the needs of the leading, most compute-intensive environments around the world.
Amdahl has over 25 years of experienceo create customized solutions that help clients NOTE TO EDITORS: Amda hl news releases are available on the Internet at www.amdahl.com, the Amdahl Corporation home page.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20772339&refid=holomed_1   (555 words)

  
 S&P Stock Reports: Amdahl Corp.
Amdahl manufactures IBM plug-compatible mainframes and also offers servers, data storage systems, software, and a variety of services.
Amdahl's large-scale computers and related storage products are software and hardware compatible with those of IBM.
Amdahl's growth in consulting and services has benefited from two acquisitions: in April 1996, AMH acquired TRECOM Business Systems, Inc., an information technology service provider; and acquired Canada-based DMR Group, a leading provider of information technology services in 1995.
www.businessweek.com /1997/34/roster34/amh.htm   (711 words)

  
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AT&T was Amdahl's largest customer for Amdahl UTS and used it for the development of the operating system, called a generic, for the AT&T #5ESS telephony (e)lectronic (s)witching (s)system.
Amdahl Marketing has a catalog listing several packages that have been ported already to the UTS operating system.
Amdahl's UTS operating system is one of the few.
www-cdf.fnal.gov /offline/UNIX_Concepts/unixtalk.txt   (6910 words)

  
 Computer History Museum - 1998 Fellow Award Recipient, Gene Amdahl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
During the 1960s, Gene Amdahl was Director of IBM's Advanced Computing Systems Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, where he led the design of the IBM System/360 family of computer systems, working with project manager Fred Brooks, Jr.
In 1970, he left IBM to found the Amdahl Corporation, a maker of IBM Plug-Compatible Mainframes (PCMs) where he remained until 1980.
Amdahl has won many awards, including the ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award (1987) and the IEEE Computer Entrepreneur Award (1989).
www.computerhistory.org /events/hall_of_fellows/amdahl   (187 words)

  
 In re Marriage of Connolly (1979) 23 C3d 590
He testified accurately that recent private sales of Amdahl shares had been in the range of $5 to $10 per share and that the company itself had set a value of not more than $10 per share on the stock for the purpose of stock option plans for employees and directors.
In consideration for the award of the shares (and to otherwise equalize division of the community property) the note, bearing a principal sum of $37,500, was payable in 11 annual installments with interest at 7 percent.
In her pleadings dated June 7, 1976, wife speculated that the Amdahl stock was worth "$100,000(?)." Parties in a civil adversary proceeding who bear no special relationship to each other bear the responsibility of using those reasonable means available to develop and ascertain factual information affecting their interests in the litigation.
online.ceb.com /calcases/C3/23C3d590.htm   (3321 words)

  
 No. 89-1357 - U.S. v. International Business Machines Corp.
Alternatively, Amdahl alleged that IBM lacked standing to protest the award because IBM was not an "interested party" within the meaning of the Brooks Act.
Under the board's rationale, each of the nine disappointed bidders has standing to protest the award to Amdahl because each "expended resources in an effort to obtain the contract", each could allege that GPO violated the terms of the solicitation, and each could seek reprocurement as a remedy.
Corp., GSBCA No. 9674-P, 89-1 B.C.A. Amdahl also argued to the board that IBM did not have standing because its bid was nonresponsive on its face: the bid contained a restrictive legend which made it per se nonresponsive under applicable procurement regulations.
www.access.gpo.gov /bca/courtcases/ibm.htm   (2763 words)

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