Present Day
IBM has a site at Hursley, centred around Hursley House, employing over 1500 people. It is nowadays primarily a software development laboratory, specializing in transaction and message processing (CICS, MQ), Information Management, Java, and decimal arithmetic. Storage adapters and storage virtualisation products (SVC) are also developed on this site. In the past it was the development laboratory for several IBM 360 models and the first digital colour display, the IBM 3279 terminal. Hursley is crossed by the Monarch's Way long distance footpath. Hursley Park Cricket Club play at the The Quarters, with the ground hosting two List A matches for the Hampshire Cricket Board in 2002.
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