Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

Glenn Kline posted on the portal 8 beta not long ago. Mark Polly has also been actively checking it out. I just got some more news on it as well.  IBM has an active open beta available to a variety of companies and firms.  Since this is probably the most comprehensive list I’ve seen so […]

IBM just released the Mobile Portal Experience code to the Greenhouse product catalog. This is great because as IBM puts it, “mobile is exploding” and nearly everyone wants to extend their portals to the mobile devices. This release supports the major players supporting Webkit. Here is a snippet from the product description: The Portal Mobile […]

The parent project of the multiple module web application uses the uses the <packaging>pom</packaging> tag and several <module> tags to indicate that it is controlling the build order of several artifacts. The control is provided through the reactor plugin. The file structure that I use is: /ear /ear/pom.xml /web /web/pom.xml .classpath .project pom.xml The ear […]

I just read an article at David Strom at ReadWrite Enterprise.   It’s titled, “How Lotus Notes Changed the Collaboration Landscape“.  The title is a bit of a misnomer.  It should really be, “A Short Review of Social Technologies and how They Will Change the Collaboration Landscape”.  Yeah, neither is all that catchy but the second […]

You use a parent pom.xml file that each portlet project inherits from to encapsulate your dependencies and maven plugin bindings. This keeps all this code out of sight from your portlet project. This first code posting shows the plugin definition under a pluginManagement section. This section is used to create any dependencies used by the […]

Sandy Carter from IBM just published a YouTube video called: 5th Era – Social Business.  Sandy is IBM’s Vice President of Social Business Evangelism and has been publishing lots of interesting videos and blog posts.  At just over 3 minutes the video is a good break from your day. In this video, Sandy describes the […]

I guess most of us might have missed the news that came out on Friday about IBM’s acquisition of Algorithmics (a Canada-based Risk Analytics firm) for $387 million, thanks to our Labor Day Weekend plans. Just early last week we saw IBM’s acquisition of  I2 to make its presence felt in Fraud Analytics. And now […]

Gartner recently published the 2011 Magic Quadrant on Social Software in the Workplace. Not surprisingly, the market leaders are IBM, Jive and Microsoft. Gartner views IBM’s size and product breadth as major contributions to its ranking. Also, IBM Connections has many, many large implementations under its belt. IBM’s challenges come from the complexity of installing […]

IBM has agreed to buy security intelligence software firm I2 for an undisclosed amount. While IBM has been comparatively light on acquisitions this year, this one when combined with the earlier acquisitions this year suddenly becomes  very interesting. As part of the “Smarter Cities” initiative the I2 acquisition puts IBM in a very strong position […]

IBM just announced new mobile social applications.  IBM has been a leader in the social marketplace over the last several years and this announcement continues their leadership status. The announcements cover applications for iOS, Android and Blackberry devices, so they have the major players covered. Here are the new applications IBM announced: New social networking […]

I recommend using a maven plugin to package your logic. The reason is that the ANT antcall and XSLT tasks require file inputs (and do not support URIs). When you package these file resources into a jar (as you do with a plugin) then you can extract them to the correct relative filesystem locations as […]

A few months ago Mark Polly and I did a sizing for Websphere Portal on IBM Power 7 processor.  In less than 24 hours IBM’s Techline came back with a sizing that was about 60% of what we were expecting to see. In other words, using Power 7 processors caused 40% reduction in the number […]