Posts Tagged with ‘IBM’

It appears that cloud computing is the latest Web 2.0 technology under fire in the blogosphere, but of all the tech that's come out of this whole new way of doing things, I'd place my bets on cloud computing being around past anything else that falls.
Steven Hodson at WinExtra had a great breakdown of the major players in the space, but I disagreed with his concerns about security. He referenced the amount of data that can be stolen during a [...]

Almost a year and a half ago, Colbert Low posted here on Profy that the future of the Web would be 3D applications, or virtual worlds, with Second Life leading the pack. It's amazing to me that so much could have changed in such a short amount of time.
Today it was announced EA Land, which was formerly called The Sims Online and rebranded only a short time ago, will be shuttering before the end of summer. The Sims Online was [...]

Up until now IBM has been seen as weak in the online marketplace. This is in spite of investments in companies like Linux, Apache and Eclipse. With its financial backing of EnterpriseDB open source it has declared its intent to finally create a more substantial online presence, and will go head to head with Sun Microsystems, already a heavy hitter in the open source DB market.
EnterpriseDB are the makers of GridSQL. Now that they have decided to open source GridSQL [...]

New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) spoke today in Washington, DC at a hearing and compared the present issues regarding freedom of information on the Internet to IBM's alleged participation in the Holocaust.
IBM is obviously not loving the press coverage that reminds everyone of the lawsuit of 2001, which ended up being dropped so that it wouldn't hold up a restitution agreement that was already being agreed to by German companies. IBM has long maintained that their German division was [...]

Allan Stern over at Center Networks is much more excited about the Microsoft conference call today than I am. A quick scan of the press release will tell you all you need to know, and that it's a big fluffy piece of PR being floated out there. I grabbed a buzzword bingo card online and had a bingo before I was finished with the first three paragraphs.
Make no mistake in my feelings about the proposed Microsoft purchase of Yahoo; Microsoft [...]

In the battle for dominance in the business Intranet market, Microsoft SharePoint has clearly pulled ahead. Companies no longer want to build an Intranet themselves, and are turning to pre-packaged solutions to provide enterprise search and content management as well as manage collaboration and forms.
IBM, however, still considers themselves in the game, regardless of the market share that SharePoint has amassed, and announced last week at Lotusphere that they would be partnering with both Atlassian and SocialText to extend [...]

So Bubble 2.0 isn’t news to anyone’s ears any longer. Talk of it is downright tired and redundant. So what? How 'bout we look it over once more, for kicks, m’kay?
The New York Times today published - on its front page, above the fold – a story delineating some points that back some solid speculation of an impending bursting (the bad kind) of the party balloon that is Silicon Valley and all its derivatives. I think they’re worth taking a [...]

I have to say, we don’t hear much at all from IBM these days. Ever since the company let go of its personal computing hardware assets to live on under Lenovo’s auspices, they’ve kind of laid low, and have really only been seen in advertisements for their oh-so-cool BladeCenter systems and their new “Do” campaign, which, I have to say, befuddles me. Then again, I’m rarely able to get my head around what their geeks are doing.
I suppose all [...]

In many of our recent articles, we have reported on one business after another shifting resources toward the Internet. Obviously the web is a market for the business minded, but the methods these new businesses are using are not the same as those aimed at the web 1.0 counterpart. The previous rendition could be described as "going fishing", as companies proliferated the web with banner ads, spam, pop up and banner advertisements, and hosts of "traditional" sales tactics. Given the [...]