Sam’s Club Offer for IBMers
IBMers and Retired IBMers July 5, 2011 to August 5, 2011 Sam’s Club in Irving (1213 Market Place, Irving TX 75063) 10:00am to 8:00pmJoin or renew today and start saving with a $20 gift card!Membership Annual Fee: Advantage $40.00; Plus Advantage $100.00 … [Read More...]
IBM Gear Store Open to Former IBMers and General Consumers
If you're interested in purchasing all types of items with an IBM logo, you can visit the following site to register and to browse selections: http://www.ibmlogogear.com/Thank you to Steve Salavarria for providing this link! … [Read More...]
Bob Fleming-In Memoriam
I have some very sad news to share about one of IBM's original VSE System Center members. Bob Fleming passed away unexpectedly on Friday, June 17th. We have very few details other than knowing he was on his way to the IBM office at Diplomat and suffered a heart attack. He pulled off to the side of the road but emergency and hospital personnel were unable to revive him. Bob was working with BP's / ISV's in the Solution Developer Support Center giving technical support on z/VSE, z/OS, CICS, … [Read More...]
IBM Centennial Articles from The Economist
Here are two additional articles about the IBM Centennial from The Economist. Because the articles are fairly lengthy, I'm including only the links and the titles in this message.IBM: 1100100 and Counting www.economist.com/node/18803123IBM's Centenary: The Test of Time www.economist.com/node/18805483 … [Read More...]
Lessons in Longevity from IBM (N.Y. Times, June 18, 2011)
AS it turned 100 last week, I.B.M. was looking remarkably spry. Consumer technologies get all the attention these days, but the company has quietly thrived by selling to corporations and governments. Profits are strong, its portfolio of products and services looks robust, and its shares are near a record high. I.B.M.’s stock-market value passed Google’s earlier this year. Not bad for a corporate centenarian. An I.B.M. mainframe system in 1964.Yet, not so long ago, … [Read More...]
Texas IBMers are Community
Ernest Johnson, who sends me a lot of wonderful IBM-related information, has been impressed, as are all of us, with the number of IBM retiree volunteers in Texas making significant contributions to their communities. He recently asked the On Demand Community team (specifically, Michael R. Cleveland) to summarize our efforts to date (2003-2010). Michael provided a report which is summarized below. Unfortunately, I was unable to import Ernest's great bar chart to this post. For the years … [Read More...]
IBM: A New CEO for its 100th Birthday? (Bloomberg Businessweek 6/9/11)
On June 16, IBM (IBM) will mark its centennial. Five weeks later comes a birthday that could be more significant for Big Blue's future: Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano turns 60, the age by which IBM CEOs have traditionally named their successors. Who Palmisano ultimately taps to lead the tech giant could go a long way toward determining how much IBM continues the cost-cutting that has marked its recent past or launches into a new era of growth.On the surface, executive transition … [Read More...]
IBM’s Centennial Just One Week Away
We are just a week away from celebrating IBM's official 100th anniversary. There are many exciting things scheduled for the actual anniversary date of June 16, so be sure to visit the community site at www.greateribm.com (and w3 if you are an IBM employee) so you don't miss a thing.And the celebrating doesn't end next week. Many more activities are planned throughout 2011, and we hope you'll continue to get involved where you can to celebrate your IBM heritage and what it means to be an … [Read More...]
IBM Researchers Create High-Speed Graphene Circuits (NY Times)
I.B.M. researchers said Thursday that they had designed high-speed circuits from graphene, an ultra-thin material that has a host of promising applications, from high-bandwidth communication to a new generation of low-cost smartphone and television displays. I.B.M. An image of a completed integrated circuit made from graphene, with detail at top.The I.B.M. advance, which the researchers reported in the journal Science, is a circuit known as a broadband frequency mixer that was … [Read More...]
Mainframe Masters for the Future
What do Elizabeth Bell, Anna Clayton, Dillon Harguess and Scott Wetter have in common? Through their participation as university students in the IBM Master the Mainframe Contest, they successfully landed enterprise computing jobs after graduation. Adoption of mainframe education at universities: - 814 schools enrolled globally, 50%+ outside of US - Continued flow of schools adding curricula - 32,941 students from 17 countries participated in Master the Mainframe contests since … [Read More...]
