SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 11 Feb 2004: Citing the success of its world-wide developer outreach program in shifting favor to open-standards based technologies, IBM announced today its doubling its world-wide technical briefings in 2004. One series of the developerWorks Live! Technical Briefings will teach developers how to build applications with the IBM Software Development Platform, the most comprehensive solution to build, integrate, extend, modernize, deploy and manage software.
In 2003, over 25,000 developers attended 120 training events that focused on e-business on demand, Web Services, and software development automation. Events in 71 cities worldwide included Paris, Munich, Rome, Sao Paolo, Santiago, Lima, Caracas, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei drawing local developers to our hands-on education and training programs. The new Technical Briefing Day series is expected to reach 50,000 developers, double that of 2003, in nearly 100 cities around the world.
The new series will include events in major regional hotspots as well as smaller regional technical conferences in key geographies. Developers can choose from a variety of events to fit their needs and schedules. The new developerWorks Live! Technical briefings topics include:
- e-Business on demand Software: Build, Run, Manage
- Speed-start Web services
- Building Applications with the IBM Software Development Platform
- Speed-start Linux Applications
- Globalizing Your Applications
"IBM's developerWorks Live! technical briefings have reached developers around the globe in established countries as well as emerging countries like China, India, Brazil, Korea and Eastern Europe," said Gina Poole, Vice President, Developer Marketing & Web Communities, IBM. "To better serve the needs of the world-wide developer community we are going to expand into more cities and provide more frequent and diverse training through our developer events."
Andrea Hamilton, a manager with Commerce Solutions Inc., a Northern California based consultancy, participated in IBM's Web services and On demand technical briefings last year, to both upgrade her skills and strengthen her preference toward using open-standards based middleware in Commerce Solutions' consulting practice. "The technical education IBM is offering through its tech briefings is excellent and helped me master the subject matter. IBM's willingness to sponsor these events as a service to the community speaks to its strategic understanding of this heavily influential audience and their ability to deliver a comprehensive solution to benefit its customers."
Developers can find the cities and dates of upcoming briefings and register for the events online at www.ibm.com/developerWorks/offerings/techbriefings.
Contact(s) information
Jennifer Clemente
IBM Media Relations
(415) 545-3230
jennic@us.ibm.com
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