OS/2 turns 25
Before Windows 3.0, Microsoft worked with IBM on another, now largely forgotten, operating system: OS/2.
Before Windows 3.0, Microsoft worked with IBM on another, now largely forgotten, operating system: OS/2.
After four long days of meetings, presentations, expos and skills sessions, IBM's annual Pulse conference came to a close with a bang, as the technology giant put on a 1960s-style dance night for delegates.
IBM's annual Pulse conference kicked off in Las Vegas this week, with thousands of delegates from all over the world coming together to work on building smarter infrastructure.
The crux of the problem is that although Rational has omitted the term Development from its annual confab, it still speaks the language of a development tools company.
Enterprise 2.0 is over for another year and despite a poor start, the event turned out well.
There will be tension between what the blended IT provider owns and what they client business owns. Knowing where the demarcation point is that separates the provider's intellectual property from the client's will be an area for especially careful consideration -- as early in the project as possible. IT providers and clients will need to partner more than tussle. IBM gets this and is already doing "play nice" vendor dance. There are still some steps to learn here for Oracle, Microsoft and SAP.
Cyber-criminals, God, the universe, mafia, aliens, Nazis and IBM -- these are just some of the subjects touched upon in a video interview I conducted with Richard Thieme at the AusCERT security conference in Queensland last month.Richard Thieme walked up to me at AusCERT, took a close look at my badge, and then grilled me for calling him controversial in my conference build-up story.
Big Blue plans to launch a virtual reality project next month, and some of its now-private islands will open to the public soon.Photos: IBM gets a Second Life
We're only eight weeks away from the 2ndjoint IBM and Deutsche Notes Users Group event in Germany, coming up inKarlsruhe on 15-17 May. Registrationis now open. Again thisyear, the first day of IBM sessions -- "IBMLotus Future In Sight Day"-- is available to all at no charge. The full conference programmeover two+ days has standard participation fees (outlined on the registrationpage).Last year, at the first of these events,we announced "Hannover". That's a tough act to follow...anyguesses as to what will be this year's big deal?
In several of the post-Lotusphere discussions,I've made reference to the next DNUG (Deutsche Notes Users Group) conference,which will be done in conjunction with IBM/Lotus. The conferencewill be held in Karlsruhe, Germany, on 15-17 May, 2006. DNUGhas posted several pages of information about the event in English,with more to come as we finalize session selection over the next week orso.