Sunday, June 15, 2008

IBM DB2 - ready for the gold watch and retirement

It's IBM DB2's 25th Anniversary this year, as discussed in this article at Intelligent Enterprise.

Page 3 is titled "A Vision Out Of Many Ideas", the author's intention being to emphasise the cross-disciplinary origins of DB2. But based on IBM's patchy track record in the database and business intelligence industry, I think it would be more accurate to drop the word "Many".

Friday, June 6, 2008

"CSC Cuts Corners"

I try to limit the quantity of regurgitated industry news that ends up in my blog, but this gave me an ABIMCL* moment. It goes to show that rebranding can be risky...

* Arch Back In My Chair Laughing