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IBM Pulls Late April Fool’s Prank?
“Enterprise-Class Second Life” Some days the jokes write themselves. Did they mean “Second-Class Enterprise Life”? It’s like Second Life, only more expensive, with even fewer people, and minus the interesting bits? Can “Enterprise-Class World of Warcraft” be far behind? “Enterprise-Class Grand Theft Auto”? Imagine the resplendently rendered virtual bus that drives up to your virtual…
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Blue Haze
IBM announced something today they called the “Blue Cloud” initiative that is a “game-changing model for Internet-scale computing”. Some thoughts and questions: This is a seriously half-baked announcement. The press release rambles on and on yet says very little. This “next major advance in computing” merits a single page on IBM’s web site with two paragraphs of text and a stock photo. IBM…
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Still More IBM Patent Tomfoolery
Some august commentator recently wrote: Evidently IBM decided in September of 2006 they would stress filing patents with “significant technical content”. They are going to “sharply reduce” the filling of bogus, aka business method patents. The company had no comment on their tens of thousands of patents filed and awarded before that date. Further questions…