COMPUTING HOLIDAY HOMEWORK PART 2

CONTRIBUTION AND MOTIVATION OF INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATION TOWORDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

BILL GATE

• William Hendry " Bill" Gates III
• Born on October 28,1955
• American bussiness magnate, philanthropist, and chairaman of Microsoft
• Sofware company that he founded with Paul Allen
• One of the world's wealthiest people and the wealthiest overall 2009
• CEO and chief sofware architect, and remains the largest individual the shareholder with more than 8 percent of the comman stock.
• Authored or co-authored several books
• Microsoft founding in 1975
• Gates had primary responsibility for the compony's product strategy.

STEVE JOBS

• Steve Paul Jobs
• born Febuary 24,1955
• American bussinessman, and co-founder, and CEO of Apple Inc.
• In late 1970s, Jobs with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, create one of the 1st commercially succesfull personal computers.
• early 1980s, Jobs was among the 1st to see the commecial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface.
• In 1985s, Jobs resigned from Apple and found NeXT
• NeXT's subsequent 1997 buyout by Apple Computer Inc.
• Jobs back to the compony he co-founded, and he served as its CEO since then
• Steve Jobs was listed as Fortune Magazine's Most Powerful Businessman of 2007

LINUS TORVALDS

• Linus Benedict Torvalds
• born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland
• Findland-Swedish software best engineer best known for having initiate the developement of the Linux Kernel.
• Later, he become the chift architect of the Linux Kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator.

LINUS / LINUX CONNECTION

• Freax ( combination of "free","freak", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system).
• But his friend Ari Lammke, who administered the FTP sever where the kernel was 1st hosted for downloading, named Torvalds' directory Linux.

DELL

• multinational tecnology corporation, develops, manufactures, sells, and support personal computers and other computer-related products.
• based in Round Rock, Texas, Dell employs more than 82,700 people worldwide.
• 1980s - 1990s the largest seller of PCs and severs. As of 2008 is held the second spot in computer sells within the industry behind Hewlett-Packard.
• Sells personal computers, severs, data storage devices, network switches, software, and computer peripherals
• In 2006, Fortune Magazine ranked Dell as the 25th-largest compony in the 500 list.

APPLE COMPUTER

• American multinatinal corprationwhich design and manufatures consumer electronic and software products.
• the compony's best-known hardware products onclude Macintosh computers, the iPod and the iPhone. Mac OS X operating system, the iTunes media browser, the iLife suite of multimedia and cretivity sofware, the iWork suite of productivity sofware.
• establish in Cupertino, Carlifornia on April 1, 1976 and incorporated January 3, 1977, the compony was called "Apple Computer, Inc.
• After 30 years, the word "computer" drpped on 9January 9, 2007 to reflect the compony's ongoing expension into the electronic market.

SUN MICROSYSTEM

• multinational vendor of computers, computers component, computers software, and information technology services.
• founded on Febuary 24, 1982.
• headquartered in Santa Clara, California( part of Silicon Valley)
• product include computer severs and workstation based on its own SPARC processer as well as AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon processer
• a suite products including the Solaris Operating System, developer tools, Web infrustructure software, and indentity management application.
• others are, Java platform. MySQL, and NFS.
• Sun is a proponent of open systems in general and Unix in particular, and a major contributor to open source software.
• On April 20, 2009, Sun and Oracle Cprporation announcrd that they entered into a defenitive agreement under which Oracle will acquireor $7.4 billion.

INTEL

• the world largest semiconductor compony and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors.
• Intel was founded on July 18, 1968, as IntegratedElectronics Corporation
  
• based in Santa Clara, Carlifornia, USA.
• Intel make motherboard chipsets, network cards and ICs, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processor, and other debices related to communicationsand computing.
• founded semiconductor pioneer Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore and widely associated with the axecutive ledership and vision of Andrew Grove.
• Intel's successful "Intel Inside" advertising campaign of the 1990s made it and its Pentium processeor household names.
• Intel was an early developer af SRAM and DRAM memory chips, and this represented the majority of its bussiness until the early 1980s.
• In 1971, Intel created the firt commercial microprocessor chip
• During the 1990s, Intel invested heavily in new microprocessor design fostering the rapid growth of the PC industry.
• in 2009, Intel in rankings of the world's 100 most powerful brands published by Millward Brown Optimor showed the company's bra nd value rising 4 palces - from number 27 to number 23.

AMD

• is an American multinational semiconductor company
• based in Sunnyvale, Carlifornia
• develops computer processor ad related technologies for commercial and consumer market.
• Main products include microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embeded processors and graphics processor for servers
• AMD is the 2nd largest global supplier of microprocessors based on the x86 architecture after Intel Corporation.
• 3th largest suppliers of graphics processing units, behind Intel and Nvidia.
• In 2007, AMD ranked eleventh among semiconductor manufacturers in term of revenue.