We’ll be answering this question and more on April 16th at 11AM. This is webinar that is geared towards those participating the POWER7 launch events. We’ll cover: Leverage graphical tools to increase quality and time to market within smaller teams Team collaboration features to improve your development process workflow Expose host business processes as Web … Read more
If you like me, often want to know what the current status is of a particular product, check out this link and bookmark it for later. It gives you the product lifecycle dates of various Rational products and associated versions of those products. The site answers the questions: When did a product version get released? … Read more
Its also the fastest growing product in IBM’s history. Hmm… Watch to find out. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
For all IBM customers: I’d like to be sure you are aware that there are some pending changes to IBM’s partnering strategy that will affect you moving forward. In February 2009, IBM Software Group announced to its Business Partners the next step in its channel strategy. This announcement was in response to requests from IBM’s … Read more
If you have ever purchased software from IBM, you know they license processors based on the concept of a PVU. A processor may have a different PVU based on its type. I found a good link that helps explain how many PVU’s you need based on the system you will be running the key solution … Read more
This is something I get asked about often regarding Rational HATS. Usually the person wants to run a macro on a screen under one circumstance, and display it with a transformation on another circumstance. For example, let’s say you want to combine two disparate screens of read only data. The first time you get to … Read more
Fortunately for IBM…..http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23814.wss I can hear a collective ‘whhheeewww’…. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
I saw this on Slashdot and nearly fell out of my chair. This is HUGE. For IBM, this is a major blow to their brand, as well as their balance sheets. US contracts contribute a significant amount to their bottom line. For the Federal Government, I see no way that other agencies are just going … Read more
After my experience at JavaOne, I now see the different types of revenue streams that can be generated off of open source software. Sun has certainly managed to increase their profits by doing so. Solaris adoption is increasing rapidly, especially now that there are forks of Solaris such as Nexenta (which is basically Ubuntu with … Read more
We’ve all been wondering what’s going on with WebSphere App Server’s near glacial release cycle, which IBM has indicated that it will be 2008 until a certified JEE 5 version appears. Based on what IBM has done with Eclipse and their Rational Software development platform, my guess is that IBM will eventually ditch the original … Read more