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As a reminder, Lotus Notes and Domino support for version 6.5 will end on April 30th, which is two weeks from today. If you have a product issue and need support, you should enter your PMR now before time runs out. After that you will have to upgrade your environment to a supported version in … Read more
Today, IBM has released several products geared towards development on IBM POWER systems (notably, the POWER7). IBM is targetting customers running on Sun hardware and especially Oracle applications. Now customer will be able to migrate from Solaris/SPARC to POWER/AIX with new compilers and development tools for C/C++ and COBOL. New compilers (priced separatly or packacked … Read more
I’ve been using GoToMeeting for a few months, and started using GoToWebinar for, you guessed it, some webinars for Strongback Consulting. Well, in the process of setting up my latest webinar, I’ve come across some institutional bigotry with the company. No, I’m not talking about black or white, catholic or protestant, muslim or jew or … Read more
We’ll be answering this question and more on April 16th at 11AM. This is webinar that is geared towards those participating the POWER7 launch events. We’ll cover: Leverage graphical tools to increase quality and time to market within smaller teams Team collaboration features to improve your development process workflow Expose host business processes as Web … Read more
There are several Jazz based products that run on Linux, namely Rational Team Concert, Quality Manager, and Requirements Composer. When you install these products, either through extracting a zip file, or using the Installation Manager approach, you do not get the option to start on boot. You will have to manually configure this. IBM released … Read more
If you have not used the Web 2.0 feature pack for WebSphere App Server, you might be missing out on a free and valuable tool. This feature pack is for WebSphere App Server 6.1 and 7.0. Web 2.0 Feature Pack Overview In RAD / RSA, there you have built in support for the Dojo toolkit, … Read more
This helpful 14 minute video discusses:Rational or Telelogic Downloads & License Keys Where do you go to download software? Who do you call when you can’t find downloads or upgrades? Where do you go for license keys? Who do call when you can’t find license keys? Order and Site Management How to move entitlements or … Read more
This year, IBM has launched the “Power Your Innovation” track at Innovate 2010 (t.c.f.k.a Rational Software Conference). This all-new track will feature: a program of skill-building sessions customers presentations hands-on technical workshops an impressive lineup of speakers and panel participants (especially that Kenny Smith guy). Mark your calendars and make plans to be part of … Read more
If you like me, often want to know what the current status is of a particular product, check out this link and bookmark it for later. It gives you the product lifecycle dates of various Rational products and associated versions of those products. The site answers the questions: When did a product version get released? … Read more
Last year, IBM announced it was withdrawing Rational ClearCase LT from marketing , meaning end of the road for the product. For a few years, IBM had positioned CCLT (with disappointing results) as a competitor to Subversion (which it really wasn’t). To be fair, CCLT does thinks Subversion does not – such as distributed storage, … Read more