{"id":1774,"date":"2008-12-18T14:42:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T14:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2008-12-18T14:42:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T14:42:57","slug":"my-team-of-the-year-award-ibm-eightbar-hursley-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/my-team-of-the-year-award-ibm-eightbar-hursley-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"My Team Of The Year Award: IBM EightBar, Hursley Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eightbar.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/eightbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/grassroots\/images\/header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"258\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/monkchips\/statuses\/1055301818\">said on Twitter<\/a> a few days ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"msgtxt en\">My Team of 2008 award goes to IBM&#8217;s Eight Bar at Hursley Labs. RedMonk celebrates makers and doers &#8211; these guys exemplify getting on with it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As regular readers will know I regularly ding IBM about its lack of a really strong grassroots-led innovation story. The company is great at top down, but bottom up, not so much. Which is why I rate the <a href=\"http:\/\/eightbar.co.uk\/\">EightBar<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/eightbar.co.uk\/about\/\">team<\/a> so highly. Competition in this category was obviously very strong- I can point to any number of awesome teams in software development. BT&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osmosoft.com\/\">Osmosof<\/a>t were a pretty strong second, but what tipped EightBar over the top for me was the contribution the Hursley crew made to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowpark.net\/cdalby\/\">Chris Dalby<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/homecamp.org.uk\/\">HomeCamp<\/a>. When about ten people come down from Hampshire on a Saturday to share their knowledge its heart-warming and hopefully planet cooling.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the charm you see &#8211; HomeCamp is all about home automation, using home metering to improve the sustainability of our home lives. Andy Stanford Clark, IBM distinguished inventor, is building a community around IBM messaging microbroker technology (MQTT) for home consumption. Hursley is best known for Big Middleware generally and MQSeries specifically. Oh sorry did I say MQSeries? I of course meant WebSphereMQ. Seeing Hursley technology applied to home automation hacking, used by people that had never touched an IBM tool before, is pretty mind-blowing. <\/p>\n<p>EightBar is trying to build <a href=\"http:\/\/smarterplanet.tumblr.com\/\">A Smarter Planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason EightBar won it for me was the emergence of epredator 2.0 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/eightbar.co.uk\/about\/epredator\/\">Ian Hughes<\/a> went through a stage earlier in 2008 when he came across as a negative influence &#8211; but towards the end of the year he is seemingly re-energised and ready to help EightBar make even more of a go of it.\u00a0 EightBar &#8211; activist evangelists.<\/p>\n<p>So well done Andy, Dale, Ian, Graham, Laura, Nick and anyone else in the cluster. I bet <a href=\"http:\/\/rooreynolds.com\/\">Roo<\/a> is kicking himself for joining the BBC and missing out on this ever so prestigious award \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Have a great Christmas folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I said on Twitter a few days ago: My Team of 2008 award goes to IBM&#8217;s Eight Bar at Hursley Labs. RedMonk celebrates makers and doers &#8211; these guys exemplify getting on with it. As regular readers will know I regularly ding IBM about its lack of a really strong grassroots-led innovation story. 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