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Due to the enthusiastic attendance of our IBM Software Experience last year we also planned some great workshops for you in 2010!

We start in Q1 with a workshop about Rational Application Framework for WebSphere and WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance and a separate workshop a week later about WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition.

We hope you’ll enjoy them as much as the ones we had last year! – If you have suggestions for workshops in 2H10, please let us know!

At the IBM site this announcement was hard to miss. I can’t wait to see it in action.

Vowe’s thoughts on the Nexus One sound very positive, but I’m still not convinced I want a $520 phone.

We published our first two results for a new benchmark called SPECjEnterprise2010 a few weeks ago. This new benchmark covers Java EE 5, which makes it much more applicable to today’s applications than the old SPECjAppServer2004.

We’re the first vendor to publish results, which demonstrates our commitment and leadership. – Of course these results will only make sense in context compared to benchmark results submitted by other vendors.

Update 1/19: A press release covering this is also available in the IBM press room.

Panasonic outsources email to IBM in record deal.

During this year’s IBM Technical Leadership Exchange we had a keynote session about CityForward, that really piqued my interest about our Smarter Cities initiative.

Maybe you’ve already seen the video below, about how IBM makes cities smarter?

It’s a very intriguing video, but it’s not explaining the vision behind this initiative or why it’s important. A few days ago I found something called TheSmarterCity. It presents a vision of what’s possible with today’s technologies, it links to interesting follow-up material, and it’s a great way to learn about what Smarter Cities is all about.

Let’s build a smarter planet, city by city.

Should you have some more time over the holidays and want to play with a few toys, you might want to take a look at these:

• irssi
• MacVim
• Vimperator
• Muttator

They’re not exactly new, but I’ve recently noticed they existed while reading a blog post and I definitely intend to try them :-)

I was recently discussing with a colleague on how to do caching inside of WebSphere Process Server (WPS). A few days later I stumble upon a blog post linking to a developerWorks tutorial on this exact topic. Good timing, Andrew! :-) [via SOA Tips 'n' Tricks blog]

What do you think about hosting a public WebSphere IdeaJam similar to the Lotus IdeaJam? Vote now!

When a request is retried, all servers might not be attempted before failure reported to client.

If you’re running clusters with only two cluster members you might want to apply APAR PK99869 or upgrade to the fix pack as soon as it’s available.