John Patrick – IBM Canada Speech
June 15, 1995
Toronto, Canada
In this video IBM evangelist John Patrick (VP of IBM Internet Solutions at the time), staying at the Westin Prince Hotel in Toronto, Canada, gives an instructive presentation to IBM Canada colleagues, touching on various topics including the following:
- what is the internet?
- why does IBM care about the internet?
- the ‘Get Connected’ philosophy and its applicability to IBM, IBM’s customers, governemnts, etc.
- forces of change
- where do we go from here?
- mainframe to LAN to WAN (internet) paradigms
- the power of email
