Atlanta PHP User Group

When: Thursday, April 2, 2009—7pm-9pm
Where: Consulate General of Canada

Presentation: IBM’s Offerings to the Open Source Community (Matt Stobo)

With the pendulum continually swinging between computing on the client and computing on the server companies like IBM must stay innovative to remain competitive and develop innovative solutions to help their clients innovate in order to compete. People think of Big Blue as mainframes, proprietary software, and robust, but heavy application servers. With the pendulum now in the space of fatter clients and lighter servers what does IBM have to offer in this seemingly unfamiliar territory where open source, WEB 2.0, and LAMP reign. In this presentation we will discuss some of IBM’s offerings in this space and how they can be used to help you compete.

Matt Stobo is a Senior IT Specialist with IBM, where he focuses primarily on the WebSphere brand of products. He works with and advises many fortune 100 companies on their WebSphere environments. He has presented at the WebSphere Technical Exchange and has published articles on IBM’s Developerworks.

Location

Our meeting takes place at the Consulate General of Canada at 100 Colony Square in Midtown Atlanta (at the corner of Peachtree and 14th Streets). Click here for directions. You will need to see the concierge in order to gain access to the 17th floor.

When: Thursday, August 4, 2005—7pm-9pm
Where: New Horizons

Topic: Open Source and the Enterprise

The August meeting introduces a change of pace and features James Logsdon as the speaker. James will be giving a presentation on Open Source and the Enterprise. We’ll, again, meet at New Horizons in Tucker, GA, and those who wish to grab pizza and drinks afterwards are encouraged to make their way to the Mellow Mushroom following the meeting. (Those who have requested review copies of O’Reilly books should expect to receive their books at this meeting.)

Open Source and the Enterprise
In a world where Closed Source owns (literally), Open Source is trying to poke its way in. However, it’s not easy. Open Source has many flaws when it comes to providing a package for an Enterprise. Ranging from the level of Documentation to the License, Open Source and the usual Enterprise Closed Source have many differences. My goal is to show how the OS world is already on the right track, what still needs work, and what OS applications (focusing on PHP) are doing to reach out.

Come expecting great networking opportunities and chances to learn what other PHP developers are doing in the Atlanta area!