Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'ibm'

not nearly as cool as i thought it would be: extremely basic in its content and approach. it seems aimed solely at people who have no idea that statistics have been applied to baseball. too bad.

sports metrics ibm future baseball statistics via:michael
november 2008 by sogrady

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IBM to roll out $8-per-month hosted Lotus Wednesday | The Industry Standard

we've been arguing for this since, well, forever, but it's good to see. the pricepoint is problematic at nearly 2X Google Apps, but it's still a step in the right direction.

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october 2008 by sogrady

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IBM opens 'social software' development center | The Social - CNET News

"IBM plans to collaborate with government agencies, businesses, universities, and other research institutions, and the venture capital community on future Center for Social Software projects. Partners can send employees to the facility to work with IBM's researchers on anything from internal networks at businesses to social search and discovery or cloud computing."

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september 2008 by sogrady

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Birth of Cool (Cuil) - History Repeating Itself? « Shepherd’s Pi

"That’s a business equation to solve, and WebFountain showed that marketing hype can’t always overcome poor performance."

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august 2008 by sogrady

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IBM muddying the Cloud? | Negative Approach - CNET News.com

"One key missing piece from all of the press around IBM's Cloud building initiatives is what exactly they are going to offer." - agreed

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august 2008 by sogrady

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Bill Higgins :: from Windows to Ubuntu

another Ubuntu convert

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july 2008 by sogrady

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Lauren Cooney's Blog: New Changes, New Places, New Faces

congrats to Lauren on the new gig; we'll miss working with her over at IBM's IM division, but i'm sure we'll hear from her in the new role.

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may 2008 by sogrady

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Hurry, The Cloud Computing Platform Opportunity is Perishable! « SmoothSpan Blog

excellent piece on the narrowing cloud computing window of opportunity

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april 2008 by sogrady

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If I Were a CTO at IBM - "Blue Cloud Stuff" | John M Willis ESM Blog

wow. pretty harsh indictment of the IBM Blue Cloud messaging.

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april 2008 by sogrady

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Ed Brill

Bob's a smart guy and will do well at Lotus, i'd bet, Rhodin's impressive track record notwithstanding

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april 2008 by sogrady

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SourceForge.net: Open Discussion

have an open inquiry to IBM on the subject now

solid storageengine mysql inmemory ibm via:matt
march 2008 by sogrady

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MS, Google and Other Big Names Throw Their Weight Behind OpenID (And That's a Good Thing) | Compiler from Wired.com

more traction for OpenID

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february 2008 by sogrady

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Geronimo: Are its days numbered?

interesting. have heard speculation on this for a while, but it's been a long time

analysis application geronimo jee java ibm via:javaposse
january 2008 by sogrady

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Once More unto the Breach: MySQL and Sun

the usual excellence from Senor Walli; worth a read, as it says in far, far fewer words what i was aiming for ;)

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january 2008 by sogrady

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IBM: A Separate Reality? - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

"I.B.M., he said, is a leader in supplying the digital foundations for the buoyant economies not only of the so-called BRIC nations...These markets now account for 22 percent of I.B.M.’s sales, and its business...is growing more than 20 percent a year."

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Anant Jhingran's Musings: Why we acquire what we acquire?

a good post from Anant on the acquisition strategy from IBM; would also have added the hire of Damien Katz, though obviously he is not a firm.

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Damien Katz: FAQ about CouchDB and it's new IBM overlords

couple of interesting tidbits in here

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Redmond | Feature Article: Google's Secret Weapon

"Moreover, things are likely to get worse as other companies realize that one way of weakening Microsoft is to strengthen open source. This has been an important element in IBM Corp.'s strategy for nearly a decade"

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Damien Katz: New Gig

"I've accepted a permanent, full-time job with IBM. My primary duties are (drumroll....) CouchDB!" - count me as interested.

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january 2008 by sogrady

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I.B.M. Buys In-Memory Database Company - New York Times

"The IBM acquisition may be seen as a setback for MySQL, since it marks the loss of independence of another company that makes a high-performance transaction engine for MySQL's database." - eh, we'll see. need to talk to IBM and MySQL about this one.

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Comparing “open source” projects? Start by asking why does the project exist.

very interesting piece by mdolan; a bit cynical towards Sun, as usual, and i do think comparisons are possible b/twn projects managed under different governance models, but there's a lot in here that i agree with. be interesting if he went introspective.

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december 2007 by sogrady

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» OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent ‘Foundation’ | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com

i've heard quite a bit about this, and despite knowing both Gary and Sam, i can't say i really understand what's going on.

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november 2007 by sogrady

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OpenSolaris Soon to Run on IBM Mainframes

count me as interested in this

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november 2007 by sogrady

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Apple Worth More Than IBM. Seriously. on Epicenter

we'll see how long it lasts, but this might help the next time IBMers tell me they're not interested in consumer markets. for fun, BTW, check our MSFT's market cap.

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october 2007 by sogrady

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alphaWorks : IBM Mashup Starter Kit : Requirements

i'd try this, but no longer have an XP instance handy

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Web 2.0 in the enterprise (Tech Confidential - VC Ratings)

"The happy medium between the two that would make these services appropriate for the corporate world without stifling creativity." - i don't disagree with Anant that enterprises want control, but i'm not convinced there's a medium. and it could cost them.

anantjhingran web2.0 info2.0 ibm enterprise control
october 2007 by sogrady

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Techworld.com - Deploy Google Apps, get fired

it would appear that Burton and i are in agreement that Google Apps is more functionally limited, and in disagreement over the implications of those limitations. Exchange once hammered Notes, remember, not b/c it was functionally richer but b/c it wasn't.

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august 2007 by sogrady

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IBM Expresses Interest in OpenSolaris for System Z Project | Sine Nomine Associates

"The OpenSolaris for System Z project has continued to make substantive technical progress since its inception in July 2006 and the progress report presentation SNA gave at the IBM System Z Technical Exposition in April 2007."

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august 2007 by sogrady

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IBM and Sun, sitting in a tree, S-O-L-A-R-I-S-I-N-G at Pensieri di un lunatico minore

"Honestly? I think it is one of the few times I’d say “win-win” applies. IBM isn’t the company they were 20 years ago, and Sun is obviously not either. Next up? Solaris on z/Series. You think I’m joking? It’s already started."

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august 2007 by sogrady

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Anant Jhingran's Musings: All pieces of Info 2.0 now available for playing around

playing with these is on my list, along w/ ManyEyes which is easily the most impressive on a superficial level

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august 2007 by sogrady

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Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Roads

i wonder what he'll be working on

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august 2007 by sogrady

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Open Sources | InfoWorld | Google Market Cap Exceeds IBM | July 11, 2007 06:19 PM | By Zack Urlocker

i see this as a bad thing for Google rather than a good thing

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july 2007 by sogrady

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IBM and patents at Pensieri di un lunatico minore

"IBM pledges access to patents covering 150 standards. This is a big deal, and should help with a lot of open source projects, as explained here." - Chris likes the IBM patent announcement

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july 2007 by sogrady

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ongoing · Zero

Tim's more positive on Zero than is his colleague Dave, it would seem, though both are skeptical of the development model

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july 2007 by sogrady

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Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Project Zero

Joe's thoughts on IBM's Project Zero

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july 2007 by sogrady

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The predicitions of blogging demise are a bit previous » Delusions of Adequacy

thanks also to John for his kind words - my RSDC piece may have been late, but i did get to it ;)

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Status of IBM a11y

"Personally, I am still extremely interested in accessibility and the GNOME desktop. The IBM decision means that I will no longer contribute to GNOME through my daily work, but I certainly plan to make contributions to GNOME as a hobbyist."

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june 2007 by sogrady

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IBM developerWorks : Blogs : Accessibility Strategy and Architecture

"It is clear to us that enterprise focus is on applications that leverage cross-platform capabilities such as Mozilla, AJAX, and Eclipse, rather than on native applications for Linux." - more on this later

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Once More unto the Breach: Microsoft Messaging on Patents and Open Source Software

better piece than mine on patent messaging, marketing and so on

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Outrageous [dive into mark]

not a surprise - Mark's not a fan of patents; unfortunately, in today's system, vendors are more or less obligated to pursue them

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may 2007 by sogrady

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Palmisano Predicts SMB Will Be IBM's Largest Market in Five Years

"IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano predicted that the small to medium business market will become IBM's largest customer segment within five years." - as Cote noted, it's important to note that IBM's definition of SMB is different than most of ours

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may 2007 by sogrady

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Ed Brill

as Cote said, this is notable especially for the comments re: IBM and SMBs

smb ibm Lotus edbrill via:Cote
april 2007 by sogrady

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The Java Community Process(SM) Program - JSRs: Java Specification Requests - results

this is bad news for Sun; some surprising (and not) Apache solidarity here

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april 2007 by sogrady

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developerWorks Interviews: Dan Frye, vice president of IBM Open Systems Development

"What they don't do as well is make that easy to use... to make things easy to install, easy to configure, etc...that is where the industry is focused now...making open source solutions easier to deploy, easier to use, easier to upgrade and maintain."

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april 2007 by sogrady

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Two visions [dive into mark]

learned of his departure from IBM via Twitter, and his landing at Google via his blog; in any event, Google got themselves a very impressive technologist

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march 2007 by sogrady

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Q&A: Former Mass. CIO feels 'bittersweet pride' after battles with Microsoft, legislature

lots of folks have already linked here, and the interview is indeed fascinating

Massachusetts cio odf microsoft ibm sun openstandards
march 2007 by sogrady

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Official Google Enterprise Blog: The new "portal"

more interesting Google Gadgets news - like the WebSphere folks idea here

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march 2007 by sogrady

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People Over Process » Blog Archive » Google Apps Premium: $50/seat/year to put fire on vendor’s feet

Cote's take on the Google Apps news - will have more on this tomorrow, probably

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february 2007 by sogrady

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Bill Higgins / Jazz.net

jazz.net has gone live - sort of; more later

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february 2007 by sogrady

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An Antic Disposition: More Matter with Less Art

a response to Miguel's post that pissed a lot of people off; lots of substance here, but i maintain - as i did in a few private conversations yesterday - that some of Miguel's original contentions are quite legitimate

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february 2007 by sogrady

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» Enterprise mashups get ready for prime-time | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com

some thoughts on QED Wiki

qedwiki enterprise mashups wiki web2.0 ibm
january 2007 by sogrady

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Visualization at Pensieri di un lunatico minore

got a demo of this on monday - very cool visualizations - more later

manyeyes ibm visualization business-intelligence personal social collaboration
january 2007 by sogrady

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger: Moving On

wow - i missed this; Irving's been instrumental to IBM's transition into internet and network enabled businesses - big loss, particularly coming after the departure of Ferguson

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Open Source Weblog: Where does open source code come from?

i'll have comments on this shortly, but in the meantime some interesting conclusions from the EU FLOSS report (worst acronym) - as Matt noted, some definite surprise names on the list

opensource eu sun ibm redhat sap mysql via:Matt
january 2007 by sogrady

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Microsoft Snags Don Ferguson, Former IBM Chief Architect – "Father of WebSphere" @ .NET DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL

interesting hire for Microsoft, snagging an IBM fellow deeply involved in SOA and web services

ibm microsoft ferguson hiring
january 2007 by sogrady

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Mike Mason - Re: Script to measure resource usage based on process arguments

an interesting - and potentially worrisome - SystemTap issue

systemtap linux ibm redhat observability
january 2007 by sogrady

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YouTube - IBM QEDWiki ACORD Demo

just what it says: i've got a QEDWiki account on alphaWorks right now, and will be playing with it hopefully this week

qedwiki web2.0 wiki ibm smith php
january 2007 by sogrady

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http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/chat/higgins-chat.transcript.txt

transcript of Bill Higgins' Ajax chat from earlier this week

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december 2006 by sogrady

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ConsortiumInfo.org - Novell, ODF and Castles in the Sand

once more, Andy's said (more eloquently) what i would have

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december 2006 by sogrady

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GROKLAW

a bit of GROKLAW commentary on the IBM v Amazon suit

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Brian Jones: Open XML Formats : They’re bringing out the big guns

Microsoft's Brian Jones responds to some of the Open XML critiques from Phipps, Sutor & Weir

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Good Morning Silicon Valley: 1-Click Licensing is turned OFF for Jeff Bezos

this is exhibit A of why patents in this area are just a bad idea; i'll be very interested to see, however, whether or not Amazon is viewed sympathetically or not given their own past patent history

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Ajax and REST, Part 1

curious as to how Ajax and REST impact enterprise application development? read this, both for the impact Fielding's had on the space and the limitations it imposes on design - look forward to the cultural piece (much appreciate the shout out too, Bill)

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Bob Sutor: Open Blog | Openness in action: Get used to it

"This is openness in action, so get used to it." Bob's right, but it's unfortunate; i understand that people passionately believe in their positions, but the lack of rational, constructive dialog in the technology industry in general is unfortunate

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september 2006 by sogrady

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James Governor's MonkChips: IBM Ain't no SMB Web Host

"Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are acquiring cool firms long before they have time to develop a dependence on, or even orientation towards, IBM's enterprisey products." - excellent point

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september 2006 by sogrady

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Happy Birthday alphaWorks! « The Wayward Word Press

very interesting history of Jikes and alphaWorks, with some very kind words for yours truly (thank you, sir)

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september 2006 by sogrady

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Glynn Foster's Blog

Glynn's very reasonable and dispassionate take on IBM's swipes at OpenSolaris; very much worth a read

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august 2006 by sogrady

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