IBM Concedes Sippy Award to Sony
Sony just collected a Silly Intellectual Property Award (Sippy) when IBM withdrew its entry. Here’s a quote from the Big Blue concession speech (via Glyn). IBM has put into the public domain and...
View ArticleOpenID: BigCos on Board
This morning the OpenID Foundation announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board. This is good news, since OpenID is good. However, there are limits to the goodness...
View ArticleEnterprise 2.0: Some Thoughts on Vendors
This post follows from the previous, which discussed strategic and ad-hoc adoption of E2. It will map vendors on to that discussion, in a couple of ways. First, I want to map four specific vendors on...
View ArticleIBM and Open Source
Glyn Moody reminds us of IBM’s importance to open source, and suggests that Big Blue become more visible with respect to such software. If you wanted to pin down the day on which GNU/Linux became a...
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