Well, here at innovate, perhaps  the first point of interest is the new General Manager IBM Software, Dr. Kristof Kloeckner, who once headed up IBM's Hursley lab and has a great track record in Rational. He spoke well and looks likely to continue...

Well, as another IBM exec says, I wish I were as energetic as Steve Mills (head of IBM's software group). Personally, I suspect it's tiring. Anyway, Millls' key point perhaps was if you still want to able to write software in future, and I guess you...

I've been at Sybase's Analyst Summit at the New York Stock Exchange. The immediate point of interest, of course, is that Sybase still seems happy with being acquired by SAP—perhaps partly because it gets to run itself as an independent company...