In this IBM sponsored episode, we talk with several folks from IBM and Belgium based KBC about KBC's use of EGL on System z. We start out going over how KBC came to use EGL and it's benefits, and then wrap-up with some mainframe culture talk.

Thanks to all of our participants for this episode:

• Lieven Gouwy, KBC, ICT Architect Development Infrastructure
• Johan Gebels, KBC, ICT Architect Development Infrastructure
• Dirk Doyen, KBC, ICT Architect Development Infrastructure
• Ray Jones, IBM Vice-President zSeries Software Sales
• Stefano Sergi, IBM Market Manager, EGL
• Todd Britton, IBM Rational System z & i Strategy

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In this episode, I talk with the newest RedMonk member, Anne Zelenka.

As Steve and James both said, I'm thrilled to have Anne joining us. I've been looking forward to it. As they say, "we're expecting great things" ;>

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In this episode, James and Coté talk with Zend's Andi Gutmans about PHP, PHP on System i, the recent Zend/Microsoft partnership around IIS, recent database optimizations, how people are using PHP behind-the-firewall, and PHP development in general.

Thanks again, Andi ;>

Disclaimer: Zend and IBM are clients, as is Sun who we mention by way of Java.

Steve, James, and Cot&eaucte; talk about VMWare World, the virtualization/operating system cage-match, and the idea of "applications."

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In this episode, Coté talks with André Charland, Dave Johnson, and Alexei White all of Nitobi. We discuss Nitobi's RIA components, the world of AJAX and RIA, evolving the web, and the general state of the AJAX/RIA space at the moment.

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