Dennis Andrews
About
Dennis brings more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry to Emida, including serving as former Chairman and co-founder of eCatalystOne, also a provider of global online payment services.
Dennis started his career at IBM where he spent 21 years during the initial explosion of the IBM PC business.
He has been the president
and/or CEO of advanced software companies since 1991, including seven-plus years in Silicon Valley.
Dennis most recently served as CEO of Axcelerant, Inc., which was successfully sold to GRIC Communications in 2003.
He graduated with honors from Penn State University with a BS in Theoretical Mathematics. Dennis went on to pursue graduate studies, also in theoretical mathematics, at Syracuse University and the University of North Carolina.
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TOO BLUE!: The IBM PC from an Acorn to a Renegade
THE GREATEST BUSINESS STORY NEVER TOLD - IBM, BILL GATES & THE PATH TO PERSONAL COMPUTING!
Long before Apple became a household name and Bill Gates the poster child for computational wealth, there was IBM and a few crazy visionaries who saw a future NO ONE ELSE could have predicted!
In his thrilling work, TOO BLUE!, Dennis Andrews pulls back the curtain of IBM’s history to reveal the sometimes serendipitous sometimes nerve-wracking, technological space-race to develop a computer that would change the course of history!
Discover how a small, relatively unknown team of engineers at IBM:
colored outside the blue line,” thus shifting IBM’s mainframe business to an untapped and “fruitless” market;
pitched and signed what was then a small but feisty Microsoft Corporation (and Bill Gates) to the Acorn Project;
fought a corporate slew of internal naysayers that deemed the PC as a risky and unnecessary reputational hazard;
elevated personal computers from relative obscurity to a household product for millions worldwide;
took the IBM PC from zero units in 1980 to just over 2M units in 1984 and a 34 percent market share;
developed the road map for pioneering tech start-ups to come;
And much, much more.
What almost never was - the story of IBM and the personal computer - is a breathtaking technological adventure fraught with corporate perils and groundbreaking innovation.
Grab your copy of TOO BLUE! today and unlock the secret history behind the PC that changed the world!