November, 2008

Would you want to see video blogging here?

I have been playing with video blogging, and wondered if that would be something you would want to see here?

IBM buys another software company

This should go under my “what bad ecconomy” section too, but it’s not. IBM, the big blue giant has purchased Transitive Software. I will  let the IT Jungle explain:

Link :: IBM’s Transitive Buy Presents Interesting Server Options

“Here’s a story you’ve heard a bunch of times: IBM liked the software so much, it bought the company. And so the story ran again last week, when Big Blue bought software emulation specialist Transitive for an undisclosed sum of money. Transitive makes a bit of software called QuickTransit, which allows applications created for one chip to be encapsulated, and run on completely different architectures.” - IT Jungle

What bad ecconomy?

So I keep hearing about this bad ecconomy and keep looking around wondering if it’s not just a bad housing market and the rest of the ecconomy is fine. Sure there are some bad signs out there that point to “doom & gloom” but I was out in Charlotte last weekend and the malls were all packed, the shops were full, people were out driving, and it was a mess to be honest.

I saw this in the paper and have to wonder if the media has not created some of these ecconomic problems, and while the “bail-outs” don’t seem to be helping we keep seeing record sales and such from other sectors?

Link :: Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede

It is sad when anyone dies, but the mad rush of people to go shopping is nuts. I think people who lived through the great depression are thinking the same thing, no one stood in line for toys and electronics during the depression, and I would submit we are not in one right now either.

This can’t be good - SUN to lay off 6000 employees

It’s not going to be easy to get throught this hard economic time. Sadly SUN was not in a position I think to survive it anyway. They have been on the bubble for years. I wish all the empoyees who got thier walking papers good luck, there are jobs out there you just have to be creative.

LINK :: Sun to lay off 6000 Workers

Ross Mauri - Chat Transcript from iSociety

Ross Mauri is the new POWER SYSTEM Exec at IBM over all the POWER SYSTEMS. iSociety held a fireside chat with him to find out how things are going at IBM with the new single hardware platform, POWER!

Here is the Transcript @ iSociety

The Father of the now IBM i, Frank Soltis, is not working at IBM anymore

Frank Soltis, the father of the IBM AS/400 in 1988, is rumored to not be working at IBM anymore. Let go or whatever, it’s hard news for a person like me to stomach. It’s pretty sad really. Frank has always been that rock star engineer who quantified the IBM i. He was the corner stone and in person a super nice guy.

There is think Thread in the Midrange.com Site and it’s an opinion, one which I agree with parts of but is not my writting.

While I don’t have anymore details than that I can’t seem to find anything further. Seems I am kind of breaking news here. So if anyone has any details and would like to share them I am going to be putting out feelers for what has happened to Frank. He’s not going to be at IBM anymore which scares me as an IBM i person, but maybe IBM is going to fix the problems with marketing now that he is gone….probabaly not.

More to come….

Running a Users Group - Jim Grisanzio

Jim writes an blog post that I found is not just for OpenSolaris User Groups, but could be used for all User Groups. Thanks Jim for the great post and sharing you thoughts on the matter.

LINK :: Jim Grisanzio -  Running Successful OpenSolaris User Groups

I tried at one time to get the Colorado Lotus Users Group back up and running and kind of hit a brick wall after the first year. In Charlotte by accident I kind of started a group of users we call, Lunch Time Geeks or LTG, and we just meet for lunch. No agenda, no meeting, just hanging out and eating. Maybe I can grow it from there? Maybe not?

I hope you all VOTED!

If you are reading this and it’s still Tuesday 5 NOV 2009, you need to stop reading and go VOTE please. It’s fun and you get to be apart of a US tradition.

IBM Get your i act together please

I was riding home from work in my car and on the radio came an IBM i ad, or maybe I should say a System i ad. It was one of the IBM Drive-Thru commercials that I truly do like, but in the end they were still selling the System i Express? IBM if you plan of anyone taking you seriously in the IBM i space and you want to have the right to complain that some people still use the term AS/40, then you have to be organized enought to all be on the same marketing page and not contenue to call a system you renamed over 9 months ago what you used to call it. I closed my eyes and was sad for a second becasue I knew IBM has still no clue how to market anything they own.