Archive for March, 2007

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Info Week slams IBM for sponsoring Groklaw

Infomation Week has an article this week claiming, among other things, that IBM provides sponsorship for the the nonprofit that freely hosts Groklaw, a fine legal repository famous for its anti SCO slant.
Per the article:

Groklaw, a widely read Web site that has sided with IBM in its legal battle with The SCO Group, receives free […]

2 Comments » - Posted in General, Litigation by Greg

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

IBM and Web Accessibility at CSUN conference

IBM has been a pioneer of sorts in web accessibility and has figured prominently in recent years at the Cal State Northridge Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference.
Last year at the CSUN accessibility conference, IBM Presenters Rich Schwerdtfeger and George Kraft outlined the IBM Linux Accessibility Project’s efforts in the open source community for […]

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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

IBM the Most Admired Technology Company

Fortune Magazine released its list of the 100 most admired companies and IBM came in 11th, #1 among technology companies. IBM recieved the top score for 4 of the 9 attributes of reputation: Use of corporate assets, Quality of management, Long-term investment and Globalness.
IBM
Overall score: 7.57
Top 50 rank: 11
Rank among Computers: 1
Address: New Orchard […]

2 Comments » - Posted in General by Greg

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Should IBM Buy Cognos?

I’ve been pondering for sometime about a future hookup of IBM and Cognos. Motley Fool talked about it maybe six months ago and IBM’s appetite seemed insatiable around that time. This announcement (IBM to use Cognos as its embedded workforce performance reporting and analysis engine) makes that more likely I suppose. There […]

5 Comments » - Posted in General, Acquisitions, Speculation by Greg