IBM

May 16 2008   12:12PM GMT

Q: Who plans to accelerate innovation, and offer a superior solution at a lower price?

Posted by: viip
PeopleSoft, IBM, Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Oracle

A: Oracle and PeopleSoft say they do.

BTW recently the PeopleSoft Technology Blog shared awareness of a new site that is devoted to the Middleware Developer and perhaps a place to help you start creating SOA with your PeopleSoft applications. The site includes a link to this page of Oracle Blogs (semantic web view here, not all blogs included). Ideally the blogs further beam value inherently (intrinsically and pervasively) into your step. In any event, if your neighbors are partying and you can’t sleep perhaps you’ll find yourself doing some related reading… for example, William Vambenepe (IT management in a changing IT world) recently wrote about various IT management stories and provided a link to RedMonk’s People Over Process blog which included a link to Eric Schmidt IBM and Clouds | IT Management and Cloud Blog.

As the cloud and related applications continue to evolve and transform the value of the user experience, what database do you think will be largely inherent? 

May 7 2008   10:10AM GMT

How can innovation be increasingly unlocked?

Posted by: viip
Gartner, IBM, Inherent Quality

Q: How can innovation be increasingly unlocked? Can it be with increased visibility, control and automation? For example see this IBM - Gartner Video.

A: By making quality, value, excellence and simplicity increasingly intrinsic and pervasive (for related thinking read Inherent Quality Simplicity; Thank you for doing so). 

Apr 2 2008   2:12PM GMT

Booch joining the Software Technology Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as Chief Scientist for Software Engineering

Posted by: viip
IBM, Inherent Quality, Software Quality

Some interesting posts these days over at Booch’s blog (Handbook of Software Architecture). For example see the March 10 post, Rational Machines, which at end includes a great quote of the day: Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, ‘Information’; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it. — Grace Murray Hopper.

As you read towards present day you will encounter the March 18 post, Living A Life of Ands, which includes a very different, real and enjoyable self-description by Grady. In the post he also shares awareness that he is joining the Software Technology Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as Chief Scientist for Software Engineering.

All the best Grady; I look forward to eventually hearing of a publish date for your much anticipated new book.

Mar 28 2008   12:34PM GMT

New mainframe, Z10

Posted by: viip
IBM, Inherent Quality

Info and Video here on Whatis?com.

(taking no credit, simply sharing awareness and applauding the efforts of others to share awareness of progressive steps to make quality increasingly more inherent from various perspectives)

Mar 14 2008   9:20AM GMT

Shared prior, watch it again; think of our children’s children, 100 years from now

Posted by: viip
IT, Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Fellowship, Alliance, Internet Evolution, ITKE, CIO, ACS, BCS, Bell, Business, CATA, CIPS, CPSR, CSSA, Culminis, Dr. Dobb's, Edge, EU, Forrester, GanttHead, Gartner, Google, IFIP, Government, Nortel, Sun, IBM, Yahoo, Cisco, HP, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Unification, Zen, United Way

Mar 12 2008   10:10AM GMT

A new Internet record

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Internet Evolution, United Way, Nortel, IBM, Microsoft, Unification, Alliance, Networking, Cisco, Interoperability

Did Oprah’s first webcast class of “A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose”, set a new World Wide Web record? 1,860,000 streamed or downloaded it within 1 week. Have you listened to the Flavor of Life? Many likely have not; however click the link and look at the numbers reported by Wikipedia about the Flavor of Life, and then imagine the potential of the Internet and the new records and improvements to quality of life that could be related before, by and beyond 2020. For example, imagine how the United Way is and can be increasingly enabled by software, technology, information, the Internet, and pros and public coming together increasingly as one to be of help to others. This way, this unified hand, could potentially increasingly enable harmonization around initiatives of high purpose. In general a united way is a good way. It can increasingly enable a helping unified hand with far positive reach. In any event, some good news reported today by Tony Bradley (see: Microsoft and Nortel Strengthen UC Partnership; IBM Pledges $1 Billion Investment in Unified Communications). A positive open unified interoperability of people and machines is on the rise and may even lead to unimagined goodness from various perspectives.

Mar 8 2008   2:20PM GMT

Global IT Profession Comes Nearer, Canadian Information Processing Society Updates

Posted by: viip
CIPS, IBM, Microsoft, Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Bell, Gartner, CGI, HP, IFIP, CSSA, BCS, ACS

A few bits of news that may interest you:

• 2.21.2007 Global IT Profession comes nearer
• 3.13.2007 IT Industry moves towards a Global Standard of Professionalism
• 9.12.2007 Microsoft supports plan for International Standard for IT Professionals
• 2.21.2008 CIPS National Board of Directors: Call for Nominations
• 3.05.2008 CIPS hosting special Microsoft 14-city workshop tour across Canada (the first Community Connection event starts Feb 26, 2008 in Toronto with the last event scheduled for April 16, 2008 in Quebec City)
• 5.07.2008 Summit 2008, organized by DPI (Association of Public Sector Information Professionals) and CIPS, celebrating their 45th and 50th anniversaries respectively (Elite Sponsor is IBM, Premier Sponsor is HP, Keynote Sponsors are Microsoft and Bell, other sponsors and friends include Global Knowledge, Workforce Ageing in the New Economy, Novell, Eagle, Veritaaq, Robert Half Technology, Brainhunter, Ajilon, CGI, and Gartner)

Note:

CIPS National is seeking nominations for positions that become vacant on the National Board of Directors at the AGM on May 7, 2008. The AGM will be held in Ottawa, Ontario in conjunction with Summit 2008. All nominations must be received in the National office by 5:00 p.m. EST on March 28, 2008.  

PS: Mr. President, Thank you for being a Friend

Feb 26 2008   11:07AM GMT

Launch 2008, the space elevator, the future of our children’s children

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, IBM, Microsoft, Fun

Launch 2008 (February 27, 2008) ideally goes well and in some way further unifies IT so increasingly it becomes easier for IT to work together on high purposes.

In time who knows what can be enabled for the children of the future. Perhaps all children of the future will be as intelligent as today’s rocket scientists, thanks to an amplified intelligence largely enabled by software, technology and information and related advances of applied imagination and innovation. Perhaps like rockets the children of the future will burst forth new innovations at incredible speeds. Perhaps in the process the children of the future will further show that rockets are inefficient, and that there are less expensive, faster, safer and better ways than what is known in or by the current generation. In a future generation perhaps adults and children will travel out of this world using a space elevator. Perhaps for fun the value-inherent fascinating content of video research libraries will beam knowledge and skills quickly within all people like a movie. Perhaps readers of VIIP will browse the one noted below, perhaps learning about the space elevator and our future, or about various works by PhD students, or about “The promise, the limits, and the beauty of software” by Grady Booch, Scientist, IBM.  

Research Channel 

Microsoft Research

In 1991, Microsoft Corp. became the first software company to create its own computer science research organization. Microsoft Research (MSR) has developed into a unique entity among corporate research labs, balancing an open academic model with an effective process for transferring its research to product development teams. Microsoft recognizes that to create the foundation for future technology breakthroughs, it is necessary to support long-term computer science research that is not bound by product cycles. Today, the world-renowned scientists of Microsoft Research make up one of the largest, fastest-growing and most highly respected software research organizations in the world — one that will help define and redefine the computing experience for millions of people for decades to come.

Feb 13 2008   1:13PM GMT

From Big Blue to individuals like you, open minded progress is inherently making things better

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, IBM, OpenID, Fellowship

Back in October ‘07 this post, Make it better, provided several links while promoting the notion of all expanding freely, living with passion, increasingly supporting concepts for a more open office and moving quickly toward the third-decade of the Web (2010-2020). If you have been following the industry progress already only a few months later you may be progressively starting to see and say, wow. Indeed the world is getting smaller while benefits increasingly have greater opportunity to emerge to higher degrees with less risk.

Organizations and individuals are working heroically harder and smarter at helping you take back control of your architecture. One such organization is naturally IBM which helps you collaborate globally, and unify and simplify development through usage of a complete set of tools (see webcast as example). Way back on the 10th of September ‘07, Big Blue of course announced that it was joining the OpenOffice community, pledging to contribute code and other resources to an eight-year-old open source project. The future is in the present, heck it is even in the past; in the present however it exists as a result of individuals and the efforts of many, and also thanks to some of the biggest names in the industry really starting to join in support (e.g., of things like OpenID). It is very promising and interesting to think how far advanced the future will be as the world continues to evolve and then begins to enter the perfect vision leap year of (and more so with) 2020. The combined effort of many has the potential to empower others, particularly the consumer. This is an example of progress that is helping to continually take quality, value, excellence and simplicity to unimagined paradigms on route to increasingly making it ( IT Joy) an intrinsic and pervasive positive manifestation within software, technology, information and life (and all that is increasingly becoming associated with a growing force of good and the emerging universal computerized fellowship of pros and public).

From Big Blue to individuals like you, passion and open minded progress is innately making things better. This post takes no credit, however extends a Thank You to all for all you do to beam the world increasingly toward a future history that is bright for all.

For those who think quality is a fad, it is high time you awaken the joy within. Perhaps reading IQS will help you do this. The circles, levels, waves and dimensions are continually changing and evolving inwards, upwards and outwards taking the benefits to deeper, higher and wider degrees of value, excellence and simplicity. Part of the solutions for making things better, and increasingly surpassing the tremendous responsibilities and opportunities that IT has, will increasingly be related to the growth of a universal profession, as well as the growth of fellowship within the profession and with the general worldwide public.

A culture of practice and sharing is progressively evolving. Within it, increasingly man, woman, and even the embedded architecture and code of machines, will embark on a logical, rational, and critical mission to continually make things better.

Feb 10 2008   11:07PM GMT

Combined effort intended to ultimately empower others, particularly the consumer

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, OpenID, IBM, Security

IBM and some of the biggest names in the industry join to support OpenID single sign-on identity system.

This post takes no credit, however applauds progress that is progressively bringing people and organizations together to continually enable greater levels of innate quality, value, excellence and simplicity related to products, standards and more, the empowerment of others, particularly the consumer.

Anthony Nadalin, IBM distinguished engineer and chief security architect for Tivoli software summed the project up this way: “This effort is intended to provide users with more control and to help them better manage and protect their digital identities.” Article in PC Magazine on 7 Feb 2008. 

Feb 5 2008   10:10AM GMT

Thinking about the value of collaboration

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, IBM

Is doing more with less, part of the simplicity mantra? Can you drive growth by thinking about the value of collaboration, and how collaboration and collaboration technologies can help do more with less? To answer these questions perhaps first do a bit of exploration. For example perhaps watch a webcast by IBM and a Research VP at Gartner (the value of collaboration), or search Bitpipe.com for collaboration technologies, or visit information here by IBM.

Feb 3 2008   4:11PM GMT

A universal community and profession

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, IFIP, IBM, Microsoft, CIPS, Culminis, ITKE

Will news within 2008 bulletins elevate a knowledge sharing culture? A cohesive global community and profession can achieve great things by 2020. IBM (e.g., Rudin, Spainhower, Camenisch, etc.), Microsoft, and other major organizations, individuals and forces (e.g., Culminis, ITKE, CIPS, and so on) make what is now a large universe of software, technology and information professionals. Ideally competitors increasingly interconnect and work together to make significant advances into matters of high purpose. Thanks to all that eventually do or will work in this positive direction.

Jan 30 2008   10:11PM GMT

An individual trek through the universe, that is also about helping others

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, CIPS, IBM, Fun

Innately the quality trek through the universe is an individual journey that is also about helping others and

building capabilities for good that increasingly enable the darkness of evil forces to be converted into light. 

R U READY TO… SAVE THE DAY? 

IBM knows that a powerful truth that helps save the day is that heroes must emerge and collaborate to transform individuals to teams for achieving increasingly greater results. This is likely a reason why IBM is often connected to people coming together. One way IBM does this is through events which they sponsor and host. For example the Rational Software Development Conference 2008, June 1-5 at Walt Disney World, click image above to “Meet the R-Heroes”. As another example, IBM is an elite sponsor of Summit 2008, where this year during the event being held May 7-9 in Ottawa, the Association of Public Sector Information Professionals will celebrate its 45th anniversary, and the Canadian Information Processing Society will celebrate its 50th. The theme for Summit 2008, Achieving New Heights — A New Personal Best, centers on personal growth and innovation, and achieving new heights for self and others such as related to project teams, the workplace, the larger community, and overall, society.

This post sends best wishes for success of all events being held during 2008. It also sends best wishes that all connected to software, technology and information will continually year after year (to 2020 and beyond), achieve new heights of personal and team bests that increasingly enable higher levels of intrinsic and pervasive fun, value and joy for all.

For more events see TechTarget Enterprise IT Events.

Jan 27 2008   1:13PM GMT

Bits poetic

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, IBM, Fun

Quality and value are two of the forces that shape as well as are emergent from the architecture of a software-intensive system. Interestingly, these factors — quality and value — appear to be consistent with architectural elegance and simplicity.  Grady Booch, IBM Fellow 

The above quote was provided by Grady for inclusion within the book Inherent Quality Simplicity. While the brief view below of a notion (inherent quality) is not a poem, you may find innate bits poetic. Ideally you connect with the nature (e.g., of order; or of joy) somewhat hidden from plain sight. Ideally in some positive way bits inspire on-going thinking and imagination for continually increasing collective wisdom. Ideally you will be part of creatively maturing and innovatively embedding a mindset for goodness and of making things continually better. Grasp the essence. Find your purpose. Help to continually bring goodness to the paths of the technological way of life. This blog and post take no credit; simply share awareness of something that exists and has great potential to help make worlds increasingly better as growing numbers contribute to continually elevating the inherent quality simplicity of software, technology, information and life within a vast universe.

Intrinsic and pervasive, the value is inherent, and the beauty and elegance peacefully transforming toward wider, higher and deeper upwards and inwards levels of solutions which draw contributions from all, for all. Each idea, like a drop of water in a pond, generates circles with waves as it meets with new dimensions of a sea, sky and interconnected vast universe of enlightenment and enrichment. Invisibly to a large degree, bits poetic of patterns emerge to unlock continual improvement like never before. Leaner, more embedded, more synergistic, like new forms of personal and corporate DNA, the evolution continues, and with each revolution forward leaps enable revelations which can help continually make things better from any and all positive perspectives (for example perhaps: improving the space of resources in a production unit; placing chief architects at the top and in corner offices; more so ensuring each resource can produce a design or develop one). United by collective vision converted to daily goals and self-managed accountability, the power of individuals and teams strives to excel the existence, pace and automation of perfect ones and zeros (e.g., zero overhead, defects and rework), while inherently aiming to surpass each goal and to progressively make further inquiries so as to increasingly discover each mu of uncertainty that could lead to further clarity and benefits associated with continual optimization of algorithms, protocols or formulas for ever-increasing quality and value. Driven, by optimism and perseverance, and by a passionate and egoless desire to contribute positively beyond their lifetime, and by that which has helped to make quality and value inherent within past and present, they seek, for self and others, the questions and answers that will help make quality and value increasingly innate (or occur increasingly inherently) within the viip before, by and beyond 2020 and the coming centuries of a future history that is poised to be continually brighter for everyone thanks to the universally evolving quality, value, excellence and simplicity associated with software, technology, information and life.

The meaning for the term quality has developed over time, and now various interpretations exist, e.g., 1. ISO 9000 - “Degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements”. So too do many threats, risks and opportunities. Now more than ever all need to recognize that the notion of inherent quality has existed for centuries; and that fun and value, driven by positive energies, are increasingly becoming part of the intrinsic and pervasive computing reality and innate technological way of life. Now is a perfect time for many to read, creatively embed and innovatively mature Inherent Quality Simplicity (see About for link or SearchSoftwareQuality.Com for excerpt). Thank you for all you do to increasingly help make bits poetic and many things continually and architecturally better. Within the quality decisions, dimensions and life of the present and 100 years from now and beyond, worlds do and will look forward to positive on-going contributions. One example that is up and coming is of course the Handbook of Software Architecture by Grady Booch (related goals shown below are from this page which contains additional information about his upcoming book). 

Goals

The primary goal of the Handbook of Software Architecture is to fill this void in software engineering by codifying the architecture of a large collection of interesting software-intensive systems, presenting them in a manner that exposes their essential patterns and that permits comparisons across domains and architectural styles. Reflecting on his work on patterns, Christopher Alexander notes that he and his colleagues “made observations, looked to see what worked, studied it, tried to distill out the essentials, and wrote them down.” This approach is at the core of all good science.

The second goal of this work is to study these architectural patterns in the context of the engineering forces that shaped them and then to expose a set of proven architectural patterns that may be used to construct new systems or to reason about legacy ones.

The third goal of this work is to feed my insatiable curiosity. Whenever I encounter an interesting or useful software-intensive system, I often ask myself, “how did they do that?” By exposing the inner beauty of these systems through a study of their architectural patterns, I hope to offer inspiration to developers who want to build upon the experience of other well-engineered systems.

Jan 19 2008   10:10AM GMT

Be part of what earth and humanity friendly IT Pros do

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, IBM, Google

To be part of what earth and humanity friendly IT Pros do, perhaps you contribute to the daily green, perhaps you share daily ecogeek stories, perhaps about innovations that help save the planet, perhaps you share earth2tech messages, perhaps you share awareness of a blog that tries to widen a circle that suggests performance will be better (and more will be achieved) if more seek to bring together business interests and the interests of the environment and society. To be part of what earth and humanity friendly IT Pros do, perhaps you in someway try to help minds increasingly come together to help make a better IT and collective imagination and actions that help a better IT increasingly help make a better world. Perhaps you live within and contribute to the mystery of the evolution of a world changing and of world changing ideas that increasingly by perfect vision leap year 2020 and beyond have potential to somehow help make quality and value increasingly occur inherently and be more so innate from many perspectives. Whatever you do to be part of what earth and humanity friendly IT Pros do, Thank You! There are many ways to help make things continually better, and what you do indeed makes a difference. Reading this book may help you better see this, or help you in some ‘way’ to produce a valuable idea. Regularly visiting SearchSoftwareQuality.Com may too, and as a registered member of the site you are entitled to a complimentary copy of Section V of Inherent Quality Simplicity. Whether taking big green to Hollywood (e.g., i, ii), or sharing a few simple words in a blog, you can be part of what earth and humanity friendly IT Pros do to make quality and value increasingly intrinsic and pervasive.