IBM Happenings: November 2005
The month of November was another incredibly busy month for IBM, with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and corporate initiatives including one help find a cure for cancer. There have eight acquisitions year-to-date, thirty-five in the past five years, and forty-eight in the past ten years. The announcements made by the […]
A Chat With The SAC
In 1980, while serving as branch manager for IBM in Philadelphia, I had the occasion to visit a senior executive at one of our customers — The Campbell Soup Company in Camden, New Jersey. I don’t remember who I met with or what we talked about but I will never forget the executive’s secretary who […]
Power To The Penguin
As discussed here many times, grass roots movements such as the Internet and Linux are hard to stop. However, one of the impediments to very fast adoption of Linux as compared to just the fast adoption that is taking place has been the underlying threat of legal action to a user or vendor of Linux […]
The Real Nano
Google the word "nano" and you get nearly 70 million results — ranging from the iPod Nano to nano tennis rackets, to some very esoteric and futuristic concepts. Nanotechnology is a relatively new field involving engineering on a scale of individual atoms. The technology will surely result in new materials and also the improvement of […]
IBM Happenings: October 2005
The month of October was incredibly busy for IBM, with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and corporate initiatives. The announcements made by the company during the month are listed below and the complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. List of Announcements for October 2005 IBM introduces […]
