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Rational are, well, er – rational

breadedcod — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:01:25 +0000

Had a meeting with folks from IBM Rational the other week – for the first time since IBM acquired Telelogic. It was mainly intended as a quick roadmap session and introductions to the wider portfolio given that we’ve only really used Rational Application Developer and Portlet Factory to date.

I have to say that it’s probably the first time I’ve sat in a post-acquisition meeting and seen roadmaps that actually make some sort of sense on day 1. Yes, I know that the roadmaps are ‘directional only and do not constitute any form of contract’, but for once they actually looked feasible, even desirable – but certainly, well, rational.

Would have been good to hit RSC2009 the other week, but the rest of the family seemed to think that the Orlando parks offered more interest. :-/

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Mike Barnsley Centre for Climate Research

breadedcod — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:22:05 +0000

A welcome distraction from the normal stuff today, as I picked up from the press releases that the Mike Barnsley Centre for Climate Research is now officially open for business. Not only that, but Swansea have used their partnership with IBM to stick a new Blue Ice cluster in the research centre for number crunching and visualization work. It’s also apparent that Prof. Tavi Murray has taken up the role of Director of Research for the Centre – which is also really good news.

I wish the Swansea folk every success in making the very best out of the centre that they can. It’s a fitting tribute to Mike’s individual passion for the environment and science, and I’m pretty sure he’d have loved having a cluster to play with.

Swansea’s press release is here

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MWE development 'Back Story'

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Assistant Director Simon Vaughan provides this presentation on the MWE Vision and roadmap up to September of last year (2007). The content of the presentation gives an overview to the MWE journey taken at Cardiff, and the preparatory work that went in to the successful investment programme.

Ibm Collaboration Conference Sept 2007 V5

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: cardiff connections)

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Confluence at Sun AND IBM [updated 21/09/07]

breadedcod — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:11:43 +0000

You see – Confluence *DOES* rock. Check out http://wikis.sun.com and take a look at the bottom right-hand side of the page. No shonky knock together wiki here

Also turns out that IBM use Confluence at Developerworks too – only it’s less obvious that it’s Atlassian’s product.Â It looks the same and even tastes the same if you lick the screen, but it’s not until you view page source that you’d see it.

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