Upon the heels of the top 25 IBM influential people at IBM comes the “Five Executives VAR’s should know at IBM“.  Two of which are on the team I support, Jim Corgel and Mark Hanny.

If you are an analyst, you’ve been in a session with these two from me, and likely the other three from my A/R counterparts.  It’s good to see recognition for a team that works hard.  I want to recognize the thousands that work for Mark and Jim who make it happen around the world.  Thank you team.

I’m not going to step in to this pile of

as I’ve heard that politics, religion and sex on your blog can be divisive  (like that’s ever kept me up at night).   I will comment on religion whenever I want to….but I’ve learned to back off of politics.
So I leave you with the vote chooser.   It asks questions about your opinions, beliefs and matches them to the candidates and spits out who believes like you do.

Hat tip to Don Surber for this.

I won’t say who it picked for me, I will say that who I disagreed most with was John Edwards…ambulance chaser.

eWeek rates IBM’rs.

No surprise that Sam is number one.  I wonder if they rated the top 25 of all time where Watson and Gerstner would have ranked?

Not only do I get hundreds of links from Ed Brill’s comments on the keynote, he pretty much summed a whole lot up in just very few concise words.

Laurie McCabe of AMI Partners comments on the Lotus announcements at Lotusphere

Gary is a funny guy talking about Orlando as a convention site.

Gary Barnett on youtube describing what a good job Lotus has done.

Analyst Judith Hurwitz comments on her take concerning Lotusphere 2008.

From David Lounsbury, VP of Government Programs, The Open Group:

“If you put 5 engineers in a room, you come out with 6 opinions on anything.”

RedMonk Analyst Stephen O’Grady comments on Lotusphere announcements.