The Master Terminal

Congratulations to all of IBM CICS business partners who received letters of thanks at Share! The letters were presented for sponsorship and support of CICS. I have a lovely collection of photos of the awards being handed out below. In order of appearance we have Calvin Fudge of DataDirect, Guy Givens of H&W, Dan Speer of Hostbridge Technologies and Ed Boulay of Sirius.

DataDirect receiving their letter of thanks

H&W receiving their letter of thanks

Hostbridge Technologies receiving their letter of thanks

Sirius receiving their letter of thanks

Also check out the great DataDirect blog, where they have beaten me to it and published a picture of Calvin Fudge, Director of Marketing for the Shadow Product Group receiving their letter of thanks and shaking hands with CICS director Dave Andrews. They even have an image of the letter of thanks on there as well!

Well done to you all!

Update 24/09/09: Fixed some bad grammar (CH)

Day two starts on the CICS track with an Event Processing pitch by Scott Clee.

Scott Clee aka Mr January

Who by slide 3 had already had about 12 questions. Mainly these centered around his pronunciation of the word processing (pro-cess-ing or proh-sess-in) – he was backed up by knowledgeable locals in the session – Steve Zemblowski and Ed Addison.

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CICS Marketing manager, Nick Garrod (@cicsfluff) has kindly agreed to throw away his buzz-words and shiny marketing foils to give us a little peek at what is going on at Share 2009 this week. If you are visiting Share and spot him, please go have a chat and demand he puts your picture on the blog!   Thanks to Nick and everyone out at Share! Now over to Nick for day 1 at Share. More to follow as I get it…

Thanks
Chris

CICS is well in evidence at Share 2009.

CICS banner at Share 2009

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