{"id":127,"date":"2007-03-07T08:33:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T06:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2007-03-07T08:35:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T06:35:55","slug":"ibm-software-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/ibm-software-live\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Software Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spend the whole of yesterday at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www-304.ibm.com\/jct09002c\/isv\/spc\/events\/swlive.html\">IBM Software Live!<\/a> day presented by 2 of my American coleagues &#8211; Doug Spencer and Jeff Reynolds (<a href=\"http:\/\/kellypuffs.wordpress.com\/\">Kelly<\/a>, you probably know Jeff since he also originated from Rational)<\/p>\n<p>As fairly new to IBM it was good to see the range of IBM software products and wow what a range .. Covered from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/software\/tivoli\/\">Tivoli<\/a> on the monitoring side, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/software\/lotus\">Lotus<\/a> on the people side, <a href=\"http:\/\/www-306.ibm.com\/software\/websphere\/\">Websphere<\/a> on the middleware side, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/software\/rational\">Rational<\/a> on the development side and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/software\/data\/\">Information Management<\/a> on content\/data side.<\/p>\n<p>Also good to see IBM&#8217;s direction with Web 2.0 and products like <a href=\"http:\/\/www-142.ibm.com\/software\/sw-lotus\/products\/product3.nsf\/wdocs\/lccommunities\">Connections<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/lotus\/quickr\">Quickr<\/a>.&nbsp; And then the support for open standards and open source.<\/p>\n<p>The venue was great (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountnelson.co.za\/\">Mount Nelson hotel in Cape Town<\/a>) and the food was great.&nbsp; Oh and a customer of mine walked away with an Apple iPod Nano in a lucky draw. Good for you Simon. Yes, us IBMers were not allowed to throw our business cards into the bowl \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ibm\" rel=\"tag\">ibm<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/software\" rel=\"tag\">software<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/live\" rel=\"tag\">live<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/open\" rel=\"tag\">open<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tivoli\" rel=\"tag\">tivoli<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/webshere\" rel=\"tag\">webshere<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/rational\" rel=\"tag\">rational<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/lotus\" rel=\"tag\">lotus<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/quickr\" rel=\"tag\">quickr<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/connections\" rel=\"tag\">connections<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/information%20management\" rel=\"tag\">information management<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spend the whole of yesterday at an IBM Software Live! day presented by 2 of my American coleagues &#8211; Doug Spencer and Jeff Reynolds (Kelly, you probably know Jeff since he also originated from Rational) As fairly new to IBM <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/ibm-software-live\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  IBM Software Live!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,22,2,12,23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-collaboration","category-ibm","category-oss","category-software","category-web-20","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}