Blackberry Lust

Figures… I buy my Curve (and had to pay full price since I;m a year away from my renewal), and RIM announced the new Blackberry Bold. On top of it all, their building a tool to pull in music from iTunes onto the Blackberry. Just damn. The new tool would be very handy for those … Read more

Goodbye 1998. Hello 2008

I got my Blackberry Curve yesterday, and spent much time last night playing around with it. I finally feel like I’ve got a PDA that I can depend on rather than archaic brick that only syncs when I manually copy data over. Verizon finally got their version this month, I ordered mine the first day … Read more

Can’t wait – the Curve comes to Verizon

Ever since going out on my own and starting my own business, I’ve been on the Palm Treo, with the Palm OS. Once upon a time, a Palm was a dandy gadget. It was top of the pack in productivity and features. Have had a handful over the years (pun intended). However, this is 2008, … Read more

WebSphere ….er…Rational HATS 7.1 to launch tomorrow

You heard it right kiddos. HATS version 7.1 should be officially released tomorrow. The official release announcement will be here. You can download a trial version of it here. Of course the trial is identical to the fully licensed version minus the actual license which is just a java jar file. New features include: Visual … Read more

Lotus Notes 8 – What’s Up.

IBM is doing very well with their YouTube marketing. This video shows the latest features of Lotus Notes/Domino version 8, but frankly, it doesn’t even scratch the surface of what’s its really capable of. ©2016 Strongback Consulting

WAS Next for WebSphere 7

The question still remains for IBM: When is WebSphere App Server 7 coming out? The response is still the same: deer-caught-in-the-headlight stare from the IBM software reps. Some inside information tells me a few clues about what to expect. First off, from my conversation with a certain Distinguished Engineer last year, was that WAS 7 … Read more

V6R1 for System i Released

This is probably old news for some of you, but I just caught it. I think this was announced on January 29th. I had just got to the point to where I thought users were finally going to V5R4, when this comes out. Geesh. Anyhow. Looks likes this gives you the added features you need … Read more