{"id":493,"date":"2006-11-29T00:44:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T07:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/wp\/?p=493"},"modified":"2006-11-29T00:44:51","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T07:44:51","slug":"up-in-stamford-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/11\/29\/up-in-stamford-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Up in Stamford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As with <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2006\/11\/27\/where-in-the-world-is-sog\/\">Steve<\/a> and James (right?), I&#8217;m up in Stamford, CT for IBM&#8217;s annual software group analyst summit. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2006\/11\/27\/where-in-the-world-is-sog\/#comment-2801\">Ervin J&#8217;s comment about the PrimeTime shuttle<\/a>, the ride back to the airport will be hella cheaper than the ride out here from LGA. I stupidly took a cab instead of renting a car, but at least with the $53 shuttle it&#8217;ll still be cheaper than either a cab or a car.<\/p>\n<p>Traveling!<\/p>\n<h2>Express RedBook<\/h2>\n<p>On the flight up I finished reading the copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbooks.ibm.com\/abstracts\/redp3975.html?Open\"><i>IBM Software Express Buying and Selling Guide<\/i><\/a> I picked up at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/archives\/2006\/11\/ibm_smb_analyst_1.html\">IBM SMB event<\/a> last month. I know what you&#8217;re thinking: thrilling reading, Cot&eacute;.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, as you might suspect, I found it useful. A 170 overview of all of the Express offerings is quite nice. And, to be frank, reading it made me wish other vendors put out books like the RedBooks. I&#8217;ll have to check out more of them.<\/p>\n<h2>Early Christmas<\/h2>\n<p>Along with the RedBook, I had this nice distraction:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/309286971\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/111\/309286971_f10dda14f6_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"New iPod and it's plea\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, it arrived in the nick of time just before I had to leave for the my flight.<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer:<\/b> IBM is a client.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/express\" rel=\"tag\">express<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ibm\" rel=\"tag\">ibm<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ibmanalystconf06\" rel=\"tag\">ibmanalystconf06<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ibmswgbriefing06\" rel=\"tag\">ibmswgbriefing06<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/redbooks\" rel=\"tag\">redbooks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/smb\" rel=\"tag\">smb<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/stamford\" rel=\"tag\">stamford<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/travel\" rel=\"tag\">travel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with Steve and James (right?), I&#8217;m up in Stamford, CT for IBM&#8217;s annual software group analyst summit. Thanks to Ervin J&#8217;s comment about the PrimeTime shuttle, the ride back to the airport will be hella cheaper than the ride out here from LGA. I stupidly took a cab instead of renting a car, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-enterprise-software","category-the-analyst-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}