In a quite unusual way, IBM “officially” pre-announced tomorrow’s news at a “Nachos and News” event for bloggers only!
This is the second time Big Blue is pre-briefing bloggers over nachos and “weak” beers. I wish they did that for day 1 announcements which were a lot more interesting: project Vulcan, LotusLive cloud offering, etc.
My guess is that feeding bloggers with second-grade announcements ahead of traditional media for day 3 is not much of a big deal.
Anyway, it was also a great opportunity to mingle with some of the people behind Projet Vulcan, which is nice. More on Vulcan on a later post with our conversation with IBM Fellow Carol Jones.
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As for the news, as I said earlier, not much excitement aside from a messaging mobility announcement.
“IBM, with those partnerships and RIM, has the strongest messaging collaboration mobility story on the market. In the past we’ve been deemed to be a follower in a lot of these things and I would assert that we are actually ahead of the game now with the completeness of support for Quikr, Connections and Sametime across multiple devices and the fullness of things like encrypted mail support on mobile devices. Nobody is doing that as a base service. You have to go to third parties to get there with Exchange or Google, or anybody else”, said Notes guru Ed Brill.
Below, a video excerpt of the very casual “nachos and news” event.
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