Some years back, while browsing through the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, I was struck by one exhibit that somehow stood out from the macabre exhibits of mutilated bodies, mass graves, firing squads, and gas chambers. It was a computer machine with the name so familiar in the modern business world, yet totally unexpected to be associated with the Nazi era: IBM. As an IT professional, it was quite disturbing to see that one of the earliest and most "effective" IT applications was used as a key component in the torture and murder of six million innocent people. ... Computer technology may be a trillion dollar industry. It may make people rich beyond their wildest dreams. But when it comes to IT and integrity, we need to ask ourselves one hard question: Do we want to get rich by having our names and our companies' names forever written in blood and tears for generations to see? It was a question that Thomas John Watson Sr apparently never asked himself.

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