However, it would be one company, IBM, that would create, and dominate, a market for business computers.
Home computer users generally had to settle for business computers that were tweaked a bit for the masses and were little more than bland, generic boxes.
Although computer makers such as Remington Rand, the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and IBM had begun building machines to the IAS specifications, it was not until 1954 that a real market for business computers began to emerge.
The Microsoft Corporation, the world's biggest software maker, said this week that it had distributed more than one million copies of Windows 2000 since introducing the software upgrade for business computers and networks Feb. 17.
The five men were among more than 200 engineers from the Compaq Computer Corporation who moved to Intel this summer, as part of Compaq's decision to phase out its Alpha line of high-performance microprocessors for business computers by 2004 in favor of Intel's line of Itanium chips.
This time around, however, there has been much less public excitement, mostly because Windows 2000 is designed for business computers, not for home users.
Windows 2000, the latest version of Microsoft's msft operating system for business computers, underscores both the best and worst traits of the software behemoth from Redmond.
Its Office product is a bundle of programs including word processing, spreadsheet and database software; analysts estimate that it holds about 90percentt of the market for such business computer programs.
Silverlake was the code name for an IBM business computer launched at the end of his tenure there, and Goh still uses IBM technology.
Complex networks have its roots in mathematics and statistics and are successfully used to give efficient solutions for problems in sociology, psychology, business, computer science and other disciplines.
