Introducing Santa - businessman and technology visionary

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Santa Claus isn't just a business leader of global renown, he's been considered a technology visionary ever since taking delivery of his first IBM System/360 mainframe in the 1970s, when he developed the ground-breaking good/bad database

Back in the good old days, before the Reformation, Santa enjoyed a fairly sedate working year: children's Christmas expectations were much lower and could be easily satisfied with a wooden model kn...

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