IBM Happenings: June 2009
The month of June was another busy one at IBM with a flurry of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. The complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. A major focus area in addition to a “smarter planet” is is Cloud Computing. IBM introduced the industry’s first set […]
Special Libraries Day
The flight down to Dulles on the Socata TBM 700 was smooth as glass and surprisingly quiet for such a fast airplane. A short shuttle ride got us to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an enormous facility which provides enough space for the Smithsonian to display the thousands of aviation and space artifacts that cannot […]
Wired Disruptions – 2009
I am late in sharing about various activities of the past two weeks. The activities used up the time for blogging! Exiting the train at Grand Central last Monday morning was followed by a nice walk down Madison Avenue to the magnificent Pierpont Morgan Library to attend the WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive By Design. It […]
Net Attitude
Net Attitude has reached a new status – the entire book is now available to read for free here on patrickWeb. This is something I have wanted to offer for a long time but in the prior years my publisher would not allow it. I believe studies have shown that books that are made free […]
IBM Happenings: May 2009
The month of May was another busy one at IBM with a flurry of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. The complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. A major focus area in addition to a "smarter planet" is an effort using IBM’s World Community Grid “virtual supercomputer” […]
