[adam_az]

"What else could we expect? IBM cozied up to the damned Nazis during WWII, for chrissakes..."

That's a load of poop - the Nazis nationalized the German arm of IBM.

Businessweek took a look at the book and called it "illogical, overstated, padded, and sloppy"

http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/01_12/b3724036.htm

Put down the tinfoil.

[Bush2000]

Hayes's article has been addressed by Black here. IBM used Nazi occupation of Europe to further their reach: "In that same vein, Watson opened subsidiaries throughout Europe in cadence with the Nazi takeover, such as in occupied Poland in 1939."

[Golden Eagle]

Business Week has long been an IBM suck up, just as we've seen them pimp all these recent articles praising the sale of the IBM PC company to the Chicom government, using terms like "building bridges" and "hands across the water".

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_19/b3932116_mz063.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2004/tc2004128_5989_tc121.htm?campaign_id=rss_techn

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_34/b3948453.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_19/b3932113_mz063.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2005/tc2005055_0366_tc121.htm