My, how the IT world is shrinking. It seems like almost every day another company is acquired by a bigger player, dramatically changing the IT landscape, even if the big effects are only localised. Back in late 1997, I was offered a job in Sydney, working for a small IT services company called Somerset Systems. … [Read More »]

I really can’t work out our procurement department at work. We have a hotel database which tells us all the hotels around the world we are allowed to stay in because they have negotiated discounted rates for IBM staff. Every year they renegotiate the deals and some of the hotels change. In Australia the rule … [Read More »]

I just got back from an overnight work trip to Brisbane – presented at a seminar today on the IBM Express Software offerings – cheaper and more flexibly licensed products aimed at the SMB market. I’m presenting the same thing tomorrow here in Sydney, and flying down to Melbourne tomorrow night to do it again … [Read More »]

IBM has a blog server. It’s internal (intranet) only, sorry. It’s pretty cool, because it’s a fairly complete setup with RSS feeds and all, so I can use [url=http://www.feeddemon.com]FeedDemon[/url] to keep track of individual blogs from other IBMers. I’ll use it to post useful information for my work colleagues that is not useful outside of … [Read More »]

Was in Melbourne again today – just for the day. Didn’t get time to do my usual blog entry from the club lounge to say what I was up to. You get that. Pretty uneventful trip (the best kind really). Was upgraded to business class on the way there – that’s always nice. Was able … [Read More »]