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Tag Archives: IBM
A Perfect Match
I have been asked for perspectives on the EU investigating IBM for mainframe malfeasance. Other than saying how nice it is to see these two fine organizations keeping each other busy, I really don’t have much new to say beyond … Continue reading
The Decline and Fall of Mozilla – Continued
Another indicator of Mozilla’s continued slide (previous complaints here and here): IBM announces they are standardizing on Firefox. The party is surely over. The only news here is why didn’t this happen years ago. My prescription remains Microzilla.
PHuW!™
I have a theory that companies peak soon after they make big, bold, public and very round revenue forecasts of fifty billion or more. Basically, they’re so busy trying to grow to the sky they miss important changes in the … Continue reading
Regulating the Land that Moore’s Law Forgot
And so we come full circle: “IBM accused of abusing position in European mainframe market”. Out of the limelight, IBM has spent significant time and money lobbying various governments to hobble competitors in the last fifteen years, all the while … Continue reading
IBM Threatens to Take Bat and Ball, Go Home
It isn’t often I have occasion to praise IBM, but they deserve kudos for at least threatening to pull out of formal standards bodies and openly questioning their once-beloved “standards process”: International Business Machines Corp. will review its membership in … Continue reading
A Major Milestone
I nearly missed this industry first, following last quarter’s related announcement: Linden Lab and IBM Achieve Major Virtual World Interoperability MilestoneOpen Grid Protocol Enables Avatars to Teleport Between Second Life and OpenSim Virtual Worlds NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO – … Continue reading
IBM Pulls Late April Fool’s Prank?
“Enterprise-Class Second Life” Some days the jokes write themselves. Did they mean “Second-Class Enterprise Life”? It’s like Second Life, only more expensive, with even fewer people, and minus the interesting bits? Can “Enterprise-Class World of Warcraft” be far behind? “Enterprise-Class … Continue reading
Blue Haze
IBM announced something today they called the “Blue Cloud” initiative that is a “game-changing model for Internet-scale computing”. Some thoughts and questions: This is a seriously half-baked announcement. The press release rambles on and on yet says very little. This “next major advance in computing” merits … Continue reading
Still More IBM Patent Tomfoolery
Some august commentator recently wrote: Evidently IBM decided in September of 2006 they would stress filing patents with “significant technical content”. They are going to “sharply reduce” the filling of bogus, aka business method patents. The company had no comment … Continue reading
IBM Beats Hasty Retreat
The ridiculous IBM “Outsourcing of Services” patent has been withdrawn and magnanimously returned to “the public domain”. Evidently IBM decided in September of 2006 they would stress filing patents with “significant technical content”. They are going to “sharply reduce” the filling of … Continue reading