IBM Partner Program — The Synergistic Ecosystem that’s Propelling IT Companies’ Growth

Antonio Grasso
3 min readDec 19, 2022

Article in partnership with IBM.

In 1993, I walked into IBM’s headquarters, in Naples, with a couple of CD-ROMs and a simple goal. I wanted to use the RISC System/6000, the company’s first Unix machine, to test the source code of my business management application, which was written in COBOL. Although the machine was conceived of as a workstation for graphics applications with the X Window system (X11), I had been tasked with porting our software to assess its applications and…

Antonio Grasso

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