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July 2007
July 17, 2007
More IBM Innovation Centers Launched
IBM has launched a new IBM Innovation Center in Dublin, Ireland, and announced plans to open four new IBM Innovation Centers across Europe in Finland, Norway, Switzerland, and Denmark.
The new centers are designed to focus on open standards technologies such as Service-Orientated Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, 3D Internet, Cell Processor, and POWER 6 architecture.
With these new centers, IBM now hosts a global network of more than 38 Innovation Centers around the world. In 2006 alone, more than 6000 business partners leveraged IBM Innovation Centers worldwide to build and test new solutions.
The five new IBM Innovation Centers in Europe will offer R&D expertise and customized hands-on support to enable start-ups, software developers, and other small to mid-sized companies create innovative new software and hardware applications. These efforts will provide start-ups an entry-point to IBM's Research network, accelerating innovation by providing insights into emerging technologies.
According to a recent European Venture Capital report released by Ernst & Young and Dow Jones, IT had the most significant upturn in investments of any industry in Q1'07, totaling EUR 550.2 million of investments in technology start-ups. This represents an increase of EUR 30.1 million in capital investment with software and information services showing the most activity for the sector.
IBM Innovation Centers will also sponsor workshops on SOA, best practices for companies to take advantage of enterprise Web 2.0, and POWER 6 architecture across Europe. Additionally, IBM will also host connection events offering companies unique networking opportunities for business growth.
Posted by Jon Erickson at 02:50 PM Permalink
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July 05, 2007
Microsoft Software Dev Center to Open in Canada
Microsoft is extending its software development activities across international borders again, following a pattern it set with development centers in Ireland, Denmark, and Israel, and research centers in the U.K., India, and China. But not as far this time around, because the new software development center Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Microsoft Canada Development Centre will open in the fall of 2007 and will be home to software developers from around the world.
The "why?" ought to be obvious: The Vancouver area is close to Microsoft’s corporate offices in Redmond, Washington and allows the company to recruit and retain highly skilled people affected by immigration issues in the U.S.
"Microsoft is a global company, and our greatest asset is smart, talented, highly skilled people," said S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft. "Our goal as a company is to attract the next generation of leading software developers from all parts of the world, and this center will be a beacon for some of that talent."
Posted by Jon Erickson at 01:33 PM Permalink
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