IBM Happenings: June 2008
Thanks to Michael in Alameda, California for noticing that the June "IBM Happenings" had not been posted. A definite oops. The posting was ready to go a month ago but never got going. I’ll blame it on summer books. The month started out with the Business Partner Leadership Conference in Los Angeles and then was […]
iPhone – Update No. 12
It is now more than 84 hours since I got my hands on the iPhone 3g. The bottom line is that the phone itself is a masterpiece — really great. As expected, there are many applications available in the "app store" and many thousands more to come. That is the good news. The bad news […]
IBM Happenings: May 2008
The month started out with the Business Partner Leadership Conference in Los Angeles and then was filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. The list of announcements made during the month is below. One of the most interesting things IBM did in May was to release a Global […]
Microcapital
The final speaker at IBM’s Business Partner Leadership Conference in Los Angeles was Nick Donofrio, the company’s Executive Vice President for Innovation and Technology. Always an emotional, enthusiastic and at times nostalgic speaker, little did the audience know that the next day IBM would announce that Nick will be retiring on October 1 after a […]
CEO Titans
IBM Business Partners Leadership Conference May 1, 2008, Los AngelesNotes by John. R. Patrick The accelerating integration of global economies IBM committed to becoming a global integrated enterprise. BRIC plus 60-70 others The emergence of a new computing model IBM remixed it’s business to move to higher-value spaces away from low margin high volume products. […]
