Archive for December, 2005
Monday, December 12th, 2005
Directories of IBM bloggers
If you’re looking for bloggers about IBM, or bloggers who work for IBM, there are a couple of resources that attempt to list them all:
Richard Schwartz: The Hitchhiking Blogger’s Guide To IBM Blogs
IBM is big. Really big. You won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. So is the IBM web site. With the [...]
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Monday, December 12th, 2005
20 years of Windows
George Jones writes for Messaging Pipeline a series of articles about the last 20 years of Windows. See, November 20 was the 20th anniversary of the release of Windows 1.0 - darn, I forgot to send Bill a birthday card.
Well love it or hate it, you do have to admit that Windows has been a [...]
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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
IBM Blogging - Irish Style
No, actually this isn’t an Irish joke - sorry.
Quite serious actually - Bernie Goldbach wrote an interesting piece on blogging and podcasting within IBM that was published in the Irish Examiner. Worth the read for a good summary of IBM’s blogging initiatives. IBM Blogging:
AROUND FOUR YEARS ago, a quiet conversation began in a small group [...]
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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Dec 9 commentary on IBM share price
Schaeffer’s Street Chatter
this morning, UBS issued a downgrade for computer giant IBM. The brokerage lowered IBM to “neutral” from “buy” and noted that the share price is approaching its $100 price target.
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Today, IBM has lost more than one percent thanks to the downgrade.
Rex Crum, MarketWatch
IBM gave up 53 cents to close at $86.97, in the [...]
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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
IBM outsourcing revenues increase
From newratings.com: IBM global outsourcing revenues rise
Market research firm IDC Corp Thursday reported that IBM’s global outsourcing revenues grew 11% y/y to $13.1 billion in 2004
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IBM retained its number-one position in the outsourcing market during 2004
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Analysts at UBS have downgraded IBM from “buy” to “neutral.” The target price is set to $100.
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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
How many apps can you fit on one box ?
How many apps can you fit on one box ?
If it’s an IBM iSeries box, the answer seems to be - “as many as we can”.
I must do some research to find out exactly how many applications IBM are now bundling with new iSeries boxes - I know there’s quite a few of them. This [...]
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Friday, December 9th, 2005
More history on PowerPC versus Intel
There was a lot of discussion in the IT industry a little while back when Apple announced they were planning on moving to Intel processors for their desktop and laptop machines. It was seen by some as a big blow to IBM, but reports coming from inside IBM were rather indifferent it seemed.
A recent interview [...]
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Friday, December 9th, 2005
IBM Donates part of RUP to Eclipse
Infoworld: IBM offers up best practices for software development
Focusing on best practices in software development, IBM on Wednesday will propose donating a portion of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to the open source Eclipse Foundation.
Roughly 15 percent of RUP content is to be offered to Eclipse in the form of HTML pages. Specifically, IBM will [...]
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
People talking behind your back
Makes you nervous when people talk about you right ? Especially in another language !
While searching the blogosphere, I came across a post on a Dutch blog called e’office’ that referred to my new blog here at b5media. From what I can tell on the site - they are another of the Notes/Domino faithful blogging [...]
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
IBM brains capture a PC’s soul
No, it’s not some eater of souls kind of voodoo, it’s actually quite a simple concept.
IBM researchers have developed a mechanism for separating the the body of a PC - the processor, memory, keyboard, display and so forth - from its soul - the data, applications, and personal settings. I guess it’s not too much [...]