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Boeing Company, theUS military and commercial aircraft manufacturer, organized into two business units: Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. Among the models Boeing has produced are the B-17 Flying Fortress, 1935; the B-52 Stratofortress (1952); the Chinook helicopter (1961); the first jetliner, the Boeing 707 (1957); the jumbo jet or Boeing 747 (1969); the jetfoil (1975); the 777-300 jetliner (1997); and the 787 Dreamliner (2007). The company was founded in 1916 near Seattle, Washington, by William E Boeing, as the Pacific Aero Products Company. Renamed the Boeing Airplane Company the following year, the company built its first seaplane and in 1919 set up an airmail service between Seattle and Victoria, Canada. Boeing bought US aircraft manufacturers McDonnell Douglas in 1997 for US$16.3 billion, to create the world's largest aerospace company, manufacturing about three-quarters of the world's commercial airliners. The same year it unveiled its 777-300 jetliner, the world's longest and largest twin-engine aircraft of its kind, which would replace the four-engine Boeing 747. By 2006 the company employed 154,000 people worldwide and company revenues totalled $61.5 billion. In July 2007 Boeing officially unveiled its 787 Dreamliner which, built mostly of lighter carbon fibre rather than aluminium, was claimed to be 20% more fuel-efficient than planes built by its competitors (principally the European Airbus consortium).
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| Intelliden Corporation, the intelligent networking company, today announced that The Boeing Company, the world's largest producer of commercial jetliners, military aircraft and satellites, has licensed the Intelliden R-Series(TM) software solution for a prototype of its next-generation intranet. Hubspan, a leading integration solutions provider, today announced that The Boeing Company, the world's largest manufacturer of satellites, commercial jetliners, and military aircraft, has selected the Hubspan solution as the technology and service platform behind eBuy@Boeing, a company-wide e-business initiative. The Boeing Company, the largest aerospace contractor in the world, selected BusinessObjects(TM), the integrated query, reporting, and analysis solution for the enterprise. |
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