Origin of Term
While the term was used in the early 1960s and 70s in the US to refer to value-added resellers, OEM is currently defined by IBM to refer to "a manufacturer of equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer". It may derive from a Dutch phrase, "onder eigen merk", which means "under own brand".
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