IBM Happenings: February 2005
Here are the IBM announcements for February. It was a busy month for the company. The complete Index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. List of Announcements for February 2005 IBM launches new financing program IBM Financing Advantage is a new program for IBM Business Partners that makes IT financing simpler and […]
Two New Books
Two new books arrived this week that may be of interest. Naked Conversation – How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel is very timely with all that is going on in the world of blogging. I know Robert from Microsoft. He has been active in evangelizing […]
Back From The Other Side Of The Globe: Part 1 (Introduction)
Thanks to readers for the emails asking if I had tuned out or given up writing at patrickWeb! No way! I still enjoy sharing points of view on various topics here in the blog. The reason for the lack of postings over the past few weeks is that I have been on holiday — reading […]
Back From The Other Side Of The Globe
The trip began with a flight from New York to Los Angeles and then on to Auckland, New Zealand. The eighteen hours of flight took us from 40° 45 minutes North latitude 73° 59 minutes West longitude (New York) to 36° 51 minutes South latitude 174° 46 minutes East longitude (Auckland, NZ) — nearly 9,000 […]
LinuxWorld – Boston
LinuxWorld in Boston this week reminded me of the Internet World of ten years ago. The show was buzzing with people and dozens of vendor booths. Nearly eight thousand attendees were there attending tutorials and pitches, testing what the vendors had to show and tell. When the attendance at a particular conference begins to wane […]