Archive for March, 2006
Friday, March 24th, 2006
Enterprise Social Bookmarking
IBMers David Millen, Jonathan Feinberg, and Bernard Kerr, collaborate on an article on enterprise social bookmarking.
The article provides some background on social bookmarking on the Internet, and an analysis of some of the benefits of these mechanisms in an enterprise context.
They conclude with an case study of IBM’s own internal social bookmarking beta test - […]
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Podcast Interview with Ed Brill
The Taking Notes Podcast published a podcast interview with IBM Domino executive Ed Brill.
To download the podcast: Taking Notes Episode 16: 03.02.06 - Interview with Ed Brill
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
IBM Open Sources Voice Toolkit
IBM has announced another Eclipse based open source project - this one a development toolkit for building voice based applications. The Voice Tools Project will allow web developers to use popular browser tools to build, test and run new voice applications.
According to the IBM press release, “the new speech application programming interface (API) software has […]
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
IBM Growing Rapidly in India
Stan Gibson writes for eWeek about IBM’s rapid growth in India. Apparently, the IBM workforce in India is now as high as 38,000, and only the United States has more IBM employess.
Despite the cultural differences, and the relatively “young” experience of the workforce, IBM seems to be making good progress in that market - and […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2006
IBM Best Partnering Company
CRN Magazine has named IBM “2006 CRN Channel Champion of Champions” for the second year running for it’s channel support and industry leadership. According to the press release, IBM was also awarded 2006 CRN Channel Champion in the categories of Application Integration Middleware, Advanced Workstations, Storage Management Software, Network Storage Hardware and Midrange Server.
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Friday, March 17th, 2006
MS Office on Linux because of Notes on Linux ?
Email Battles writes an interesting post about IBM’s upcoming release of Lotus Notes on Linux, and ponders whether such a move may encourage Microsoft to release Office on Linux to take advantage of growing enthusiasm for the Linux desktop platform.
One of the key observations made is the other major software vendors who may be convinced […]
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Thursday, March 16th, 2006
Ed Brill gets best IBM blog kudos
Fellow IBMer, Ed Brill has been commended by NetworkWorld for his personal blog about “Collaboration, Travel, Technology, and More”.
NetworkWorld identified a few corporate blogs it considered worthy of note with the goal of finding “hidden corporate and product gems” from the vendors. Of all the IBM blogs - Ed’s was the one they deemed […]
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
Higgins: Open Source Personal Online Information Management
IBM, Novell and Parity Communications are contributing code to a new open source project called “Higgins”, which aims to provide “user-centric” identity management. The concept is to provide people with greater control over their personal online identity information - enabling individuals to actively manage and control their details, such as bank account, telephone and credit […]
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
No Vista for IBM ?
There has been a lot of noise in the blogosphere lately in regards to some comments supposedly made by an IBMer in Germany that IBM will not use Windows Vista - but will move to Linux desktops.
Of course everyone got really excited and is claiming IBM has completely dumped Windows in favour of Linux - […]
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
Product Information Management Software visionary
Gartner has positioned IBM as “visionary” in its Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management 2005. Gartner’s view of this market segment is targeting organizations that are trying to achieve a single view of product data.
According to an IBM press release: “IBM’s product information management middleware, IBM WebSphere Product Center, helps companies develop, manage and share […]