O Pioneers: 10 enterprise IT firsts

O PioneersImage by Baker County Tourism/FlickrWe think of IT as an essential corporate function today, driven by desire for profits. But computers largely emerged out of government- and university-funded research, much of it initially driven in the 1940s by the effort to win World War II -- in Britain, to break Nazi codes, and in the U.S., to produce artillery firing tables.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here