Vendors in the MIS Industry:

Hardware:
Apple: Founded by Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak in '70s, AppleII, Macintosh

DEC:  No. 2 in industry for many years VAX family of minicomputers

Compaq: Founded in '80s as compact clone of IBM's PC

IBM: Internal Business Machines, or "Big Blue".  A century of market
dominance, with a few ups & downs. 

Dell:  Started as mail order distribution, now all made to order PC

Intel:  Dominant CPU supplier for PCs

AMD:  Intel cloner

Cyrix:  Intel cloner

Motorola:  Manufactures CPU for Macs

Software:
Microsoft
Computer Associates
Intuit
SAP:  Leading world supplier of complex DBMS
Oracle:

Services:
EDS:  Electronic Data Services.  Ross Perot, GM
The Big 6 accounting firms
Keane Associates "We get IT done"