Google and IBM!: It's Happening!

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Last week my partnership director, Amanda, connected with the leadership at IBM Partnerworld and had the pleasure of hearing IBM CEO Palmisano and Google's CEO Eric Schmidt talk about their joint future together.

The subtext was that both companies want Microsoft dead of course.

But the basic idea is that IBM will push hard into the small and midsized company market
with technology that requires little or no help from the customers' IT shops and keep
many applications and data and content in Google's "Cloud".

Google gets access to huge customers that IBM "owns" and IBM gets to be connected
to someone cool and fast.

The partnership conference was not attended by the usual gang of endless IBMers but
only by the top leadership of the partner firms and of IBM.

This time they're serious guys.

Luckily for us our project execution technology already runs on all IBM's favorite platforms.

Curt Finch

Curt Finch has more than two decades of software development and distributed workforce management experience. In 1997, Curt created the world's first internet-based timesheet application and the foundation for the current Journyx product offering. Curt has a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. His book, All Your Money, is available on Amazon.