The Five Biggest Myths About Web Services
Bob Sutor, IBM‘s director of Web services and one of my former colleagues, just had an article published on CNET entitled “The Five Biggest Myths About Web Services”. It very clearly addresses the key questions that I have received many times over the past couple of years and so I wanted to share his story. […]
Internet2 meeting
Thanks to Mike Nelson at IBM for providing this update about the Internet2 members’ meeting held in downtown Los Angeles. Internet2 is a consortium of about 200 colleges and universities and about 50 corporate partners working together to deploy and demonstrate high-speed networking applications. Internet2‘s Abilene backbone network runs at 2.4 gigabit/second with plans to […]
Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround
I heard that Imus was talking about Lou Gerstner’s book this morning. My sources tell me that Imus said it was well written and anyone starting up a company should read it! I certainly agree and am sure many people are pre-ordering it. New Book By Lou Gerstner
New Book By Lou Gerstner
Click to enlarge I was very fortunate to be at IBM for thirty-five years. Every one of those years was exciting and rewarding but the last eight were by far the best. Those were the years when Lou Gerstner was Chairman and CEO. A number of books refer to him on the cover or the […]
Prototype of ibm.com homepage
May 11, 1994 Prototype of ibm.com homepage The ibm.com homepage was first shown to the senior management group on May 11, 1994. (Back then we were formal and called it by its full URL: http://www.ibm.com; our intranet was (and still is) w3.ibm.com). As far as I know, www.ibm.com was the first case of a Fortune […]