Notes/Domino: Less Platform Talk, More Programming Action
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The annual Lotusphere shindig kicked off in Orlando, Florida, yesterday and will run until Thursday this week. While IBM will no doubt talk about all the new widgets and gadgets it is cooking up as part of its Project Vulcan and Project Concord development efforts, which were first divulged in 2010, I don't expect the people from Big Blue's Lotus division to talk all that much about server platforms. READ MORE >

IBM Trumpets LotusLive Successes, New App Partnerships
by Dan Burger

IBM is feeling particularly social this week. That's what an event like Lotusphere will do for Big Blue. To set the stage for Lotusphere--IBM's week of social network and collaboration software celebration--the company put the emphasis on LotusLive. That's IBM tools for collaboration--you know, email, Web conferencing, social networking--in a public cloud, or, if you prefer, an IBM-managed stack of systems and software running at your location. Let the fanfare begin. READ MORE >

RPG Surges in Popularity, According to Language Index
by Alex Woodie

RPG is showing surprising legs. At 52 years old, conventional thinking would hold that the programming language would be in mid-life crisis and suffering from the slow and inevitable decline of its powers. Instead, interest in Report Program Generator seems to be gaining steam, according to Tiobe Software's monthly index of the popularity of programming languages. Nobody's confusing RPG with Java or C, but the IBM i coder's old standby is proving that it still has a lot to give. READ MORE >

Mad Dog 21/21: The So-Called Network
by Hesh Wiener

At a kosher deli, a customer was surprised when the waiter, who was Chinese, took his order in Yiddish. On the way out, the diner asked the restaurant's manager how they found this remarkable waiter. Keep shtum, the manager replied, sotto voce. He thinks we're teaching him English! READ MORE >