Craig Roth

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Northstar: IBM’s New Grand Unification Theory?

by Craig Roth  |  July 21, 2010  |  Comments Off

What’s the difference between the real universe and the IT universe? In the real universe, the grand unification theory is unknown, but an eternal truth. In the IT universe the grand unification theory is known with certainty, but changes every 10 years. IBM announced its new grand unification vision (dubbed “Northstar”) at its Portal Excellence [...]

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WebSphere Portal 7.0 Announced, Revenue Up, and Portals Not Dead

by Craig Roth  |  July 20, 2010  |  Comments Off

Yesterday, IBM announced WebSphere Portal 7.0 and Lotus Web Content Management 7.0 will be ready to ship on September 1, 2010 (normally I’d link to a press release, but strangely I can’t find one). Some highlights pointed out were accommodation of other portlet models (widgets), out of the box social software (blogs, wikis inherited from [...]

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