Tenth Anniversary For ibm.com
It is hard to believe that it has been ten years, as of May 24, that ibm.com came to life. The occasion brought back many fond memories for me as I recalled working with my colleagues at IBM to make it happen. The history of the effort has been reported in a number of magazines […]
IBM Happenings: June 2004
The month of June was an interesting one for IBM, with technology and solutions annuncements and acquisitions across the board. Here are the announcements made by the company during the month.The complete index of IBM Happenings by year and month is here. List of Announcements for June 2004 IBM delivers next version of DB2 Information […]
IBM Earnings – 2Q/2003
I don’t normally post IBM news reports, but the current earnings report got me thinking about the information technology industry more broadly so I decided to share my simple observation. In my travels to conferences around the world I have heard people say that spending for information technology is not growing, or is flat, or […]
Extreme Blue
I got ready last night – set the Garmin StreetPilot GPS to point to 1 Rogers Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts and topped off the Harley gas tank. The ride began at 6:30 AM and was met with heavy fog along Route 7 and on Interstate 84, but as the morning unfolded, things cleared up and […]
Books About IBM
There have been many books written about IBM. I own and have read eight of them. The first one on the list is A Business and its Beliefs, by Thomas J. Watson, Jr. It was published forty years ago, in 1963. I read it in 1967, the year I joined IBM. The annual report for […]