International Business Machines (IBM) is a global producer of computers and computer related products. IBM is a global leader in creating, developing, and manufacturing the most advanced information technology, computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices, and microelectronics. IBM uses strength as an industry leader to provide its customers with professional business solutions. The company is the largest information technology company and is the world's largest IT financier with assets of $35 billion in March 2003. IBM Global Financing provides financial services to over 125,000 customers in forty countries worldwide. In 2002, IBM employed over 315,000 employees in multiple locations around the United States and the world. The IBM family includes many employees in the company's many manufacturing plants and research laboratories in the U.S. as well as in Chin, Japan, India, Israel, and Switzerland. Despite the company's international presence, IBM calls Armonk, New York its home.

IBM's mission statement is "At...