experts [http://www.idc.com/analysts/analysthome.jsp] - Custom consulting [http://www.idc.com/prodserv/consulting.jsp] - Conferences and events [http://www.idc.com/events/eventshome.jsp] Patrick J McGovern founded IDC in Massachusetts with a friend during 1964 after a UNIVAC executive complained to him about the lack of market research information available on the emerging computer industry. At the beginning, the company produced a computer