Outflanking

A Google search on the word outsourcing produces more than 33 million results. After reading the story about the Nortel/IBM contract, it got me thinking about what outsourcing is all about and where it is headed. The aim of this short story is to offer a perspective on the past, present, and future of outsourcing. […]

Irving’s Blog

I first met Irving Wladawsky-Berger sometime in 1992. I was impressed with his keen interest in technology and the things I was working on. We have continued as friends and colleagues ever since. Irving has had a distinguished career at IBM including heading up the IT group in IBM Research, getting IBM into the supercomputer […]

IBM Happenings: April 2005

April was a busy beginning for the second quarter at IBM. The IBM announcements for April are below and the complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. List of Announcements for April 2005 IBM introduces SOA services The new services will assist customers with specific aspects of an SOA including planning, […]

IBM Happenings: March 2005

March was a busy month for IBM. Here are the announcements made by the company during the month. I was particularly pleased to see the new acquisitions as well as the approval of the Lenovo-IBM deal.The complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. List of Announcements for March 2005 U.S. Government […]

Penguin Power

I have to admit that I have been talking a lot about Linux lately. On February 16 the LinuxWorld Conference was held in Boston and I was fortunate to be a speaker there as I previously discussed. An interview entitled "It’s About Freedom" was published in Linux Executive Report and distributed at the conference. It […]