Agenda 2003
The Agenda 2003 conference is this week in Scottsdale, Arizona — it will be the eleventh year I have attended. The speakers are usually good but the best part is seeing old friends and renewing acquaintances. I am heading to the dinner now and am looking forward to seeing many of them. I’ll post more […]
patrickWeb Homepage Updated
The patrickWeb site is now updated with full integration of the weblog. Thanks for a rainy day to give me the time to work on this. Any feedback, reactions, and/or critique will be appreciated as always.
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 […]
WiFi And Cellular Coming Together?
Will cellular merge with Wi-Fi? Seems likely to me. The 1,400 public hot spot locations are expected to grow to about 42,000 by 2006. This growth presents the opportunity to create a national wireless network that could provide both voice and Internet connectivity using WiFi standards and a plethora of new WiFi technology for routing, […]