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2008 Announcement – the Details 2008 has been a very busy year for IBM i and Power Systems. Version 6.1 was announced in January and delivered in March. April saw the announcement of a single hardware platform for running AIX, i and Linux. This presentation will provide the details behind all of these announcements. Spreker: Alison Butterill, IBM Alison works on the Power Systems Software Team which has responsibility for all of the various software product offerings for IBM i. Her responsibilities include Application Development Offerings and other IBM i functional areas. Alison is an IBM Certified Consulting I/T Specialist; certified in Application Development, WebSphere and System i. In her present position, Alison is working with a variety of teams to develop strategic direction and offerings for developers on the IBM i. Having worked in the mid-range area for more than 25 years, Alison has held a wide variety of positions at IBM, primarily with midrange servers and software. She has held a range of positions including field Systems Engineer, an instructor in Customer Technical Education, national support representative for IBM Canada, and Worldwide Technical Marketing support representative for the development tools and compilers from the IBM Toronto Laboratory. Alison is a regular speaker at user groups, technical conferences, COMMON events and IBM customers in many countries around the world. She holds numerous Speaker Excellence medals from COMMON North America. |
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