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		<title>IBM Buying Sun Challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I woke up to a flurry of tweets regarding the WSJ announcement of IBM buying Sun for $6.5 billion.  As I followed many of the tweets regarding this mega-deal I started picking up some of the interesting challenges the two companies might face.  Here is a list of what I have so far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Into Thin Air</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My IBM Pulse 2009 article has been published by SearchServerVirtualization. IBM Blue Cloud: More than thin air]]></description>
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		<title>SAP says HP consultants cool and IBM not so much</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAP: HP Consultants Know What They&#8217;re Doing, IBM And Accenture Don&#8217;t (SAP, HPQ)]]></description>
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		<title>Say it Ain&#8217;t Soa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Burton and Gartner have declaierd SOA dead.  Here is mi latest twit thread on this topic&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>What’s a Smarter Planet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(and what does that have to do with technology?) .]]></description>
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		<title>Showdown While Staring into the Abyss</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess we will all get a little bit of legal education on this one&#8230; Papermaster also claims that the agreement is invalid because it&#8217;s meant to apply to work performed in New York State. Papermaster was employed at IBM facilities in Texas and is moving to a California-based company. &#8220;Both states hold that such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Blue the new Grey?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be some gray area between what some folks are doing in the cloud and what IBM is doing. IBM appears to be throwing a lot of blue placeholders all over the place in attempt to stop their customers from going elsewhere. Here are some examples&#8230; Blue Cloud - Where is this cloud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM v Apple in the Law-o-Sphere</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the &#8220;non-compete&#8221; is not enforceable myth is being played out. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 5 (Reuters) &#8211; A U.S. District Court judge in New York ordered a newly hired Apple Inc . executive to stop work immediately because he might be violating an agreement with his former employer, IBM I have been following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM v Apple &#8211; The Ironic Twist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t help it, I get caught up in these kinds of stories. I guess it&#8217;s because I have wasted so much money on bad legal advice over the years and have been forced into a &#8220;Do it yourself lawyer&#8221; many times. Ok, by now most people have heard of Mr. Mark Papermaster, the ex-IBM&#8217;r [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-Compete Agreements and the Abyss</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/non-compete-agreements-and-the-abyss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/non-compete-agreements-and-the-abyss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the hoopala regarding the recent IBM/Apple spat over Mark Pappermater&#8217;s non compete, I thought I might add to my &#8220;Abyss&#8221; series of blogs. You could say I earned my law degree on the street. I always joke that I paid 50k for my “law degree” the year I left my first startup. I [...]]]></description>
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