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The Rochester Technology Campus is a facility shared by several companies in Rochester, Minnesota. The initial structure was designed by Eero Saarinen, who clad the structure in blue panels of varying hues after being inspired by the Minnesota sky and the nickname of the first occupant, Big Blue.
IBM's CEO Thomas J. Watson Jr. reportedly chose the site of Rochester in honor of his copilot during World War II, Leland Fiegel, who lived there. Groundbreaking took place on July 31, 1956. When it was first completed, there was 576,000 square feet (53,500 m2) of floor space. After expansion, it has 3.1 million square feet (290×103 m2) on the main campus, more than half the size of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
The building was first dedicated in 1958, but has been expanded considerably since then.
Employment at the site has gone through several cycles of growth and collapse, but is over twice what it was in the 1950s.
On May 4, 2016, it was announced that IBM would consolidate its remaining employees into the eight buildings on the east side of the complex and sell the remaining facilitates to a separate entity. This occurred after years of IBM renting out its various facilities to companies it had spun or sold off such as HGST. The site's employee count (excluding contractors) was reported to be 2,740 in 2013 and 2,791 in 2017, a steep decline from the high of over 8,000.
In February 2018 the property was sold to Industrial Realty Group of Los Angeles.
On April 24, 2018, in a presentation to the local community, it was announced that the site was renamed Rochester Technology Campus.
The mile-long facility is best known as the plant that produced the AS/400 computer system. The AS/400 system was itself an advancement of the System/38 that was introduced several years earlier with an inbuilt Relational Data Base Management System (RDBMS) making it leading edge for its time. The AS/400 was later rebranded as the iSeries. Development of the OS/400 operating system, now known as IBM i, continues at Rochester.
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IBM Rochester
The Rochester Technology Campus is a facility shared by several companies in Rochester, Minnesota. The initial structure was designed by Eero Saarinen, who clad the structure in blue panels of varying hues after being inspired by the Minnesota sky and the nickname of the first occupant, Big Blue.
IBM's CEO Thomas J. Watson Jr. reportedly chose the site of Rochester in honor of his copilot during World War II, Leland Fiegel, who lived there. Groundbreaking took place on July 31, 1956. When it was first completed, there was 576,000 square feet (53,500 m2) of floor space. After expansion, it has 3.1 million square feet (290×103 m2) on the main campus, more than half the size of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
The building was first dedicated in 1958, but has been expanded considerably since then.
Employment at the site has gone through several cycles of growth and collapse, but is over twice what it was in the 1950s.
On May 4, 2016, it was announced that IBM would consolidate its remaining employees into the eight buildings on the east side of the complex and sell the remaining facilitates to a separate entity. This occurred after years of IBM renting out its various facilities to companies it had spun or sold off such as HGST. The site's employee count (excluding contractors) was reported to be 2,740 in 2013 and 2,791 in 2017, a steep decline from the high of over 8,000.
In February 2018 the property was sold to Industrial Realty Group of Los Angeles.
On April 24, 2018, in a presentation to the local community, it was announced that the site was renamed Rochester Technology Campus.
The mile-long facility is best known as the plant that produced the AS/400 computer system. The AS/400 system was itself an advancement of the System/38 that was introduced several years earlier with an inbuilt Relational Data Base Management System (RDBMS) making it leading edge for its time. The AS/400 was later rebranded as the iSeries. Development of the OS/400 operating system, now known as IBM i, continues at Rochester.
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