Archive for September, 2006
Friday, September 8th, 2006
Routine IBM layoffs spark debate
Multiple layoffs occurred in Burlington VT, Endicott NY and Austin TX today. They appear to have been a long time coming as several of the former employees mentioned spending the better part of 2006 training their replacements to perform the tasks for which they alone were responsible.
Rightsizing is not uncommon and often used by […]
6 Comments » - Posted in General by Greg
Friday, September 8th, 2006
Nintendo Wii chips are in hand
IBM announced today that they have already delivered some chips to Nintendo for the upcoming Wii release. There is a fairly constant rumbling in the video game community thirsting for Wii news [1][2][3][4] but Nintendo has provided very little of it. Way to step up to the plate IBM.
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No Comments » - Posted in General, News, Gaming by Greg
Thursday, September 7th, 2006
PS3 Cell Processor Based Supercomputer for Los Alamos
This news came out a week ago (edit: IBM’s press release came out this afternoon) but I didn’t have anything to add so I didn’t post it. I decided this morning that it was interesting and ought to get a mention just for the news.
Specifically, a supercomputing machine—dubbed “Roadrunner” and set to be […]
1 Comment » - Posted in General, Research by Greg
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Personal Benefits to Corporate Blogging
Jeremiah Owyang via his blog web-strategist has a nice post about Podcasting at IBM. The corporate podcasting push is really an arm of the IBM blogging program. What I found most interesting about the post is where Owyang talks about the benefits of blogging for the corporation:
Corporate Benefits:
Though leadership: Folks will publish information […]
4 Comments » - Posted in General, Community by Greg
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006
IBM’s DB2 Open Source?
At a news conference the other day Scott Handy, SVP of Linux and Open Source said: “We’re using the open-source licensing model but not the development model. We’ve learned we can separate the two”.
I see… so DB2 licensing is open-source. So does Microsoft practice this “innovative adaptation of open-source” by freely distributing […]