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IBM UK Laboratories
The IBM laboratory at Hursley Park near Winchester in England was started in 1958 for both software and hardware development, with involvement in projects such as System/360, displays, disk systems, and PL/I. In the 1980s, it became purely software oriented, and since 1974 has been the home of CICS, which is used by 470 of the Fortune 500 companies and processes 20 billion transactions a day worldwide. The CICS product was restructured in the 1980s in a project partnered with Oxford University using the formal notation Z.
Since 1992, the laboratory has developed the MQSeries family of products, which provide an open, scalable, industrial-strength messaging and information infrastructure, enabling enterprises and beyond to integrate business processes. MQSeries is now the middleware market leader.