Hubert Fisselier (see picture, taken at the Gxllos headquarters in Barcelona), a gifted project manager and very effective software developer soon to join one of our investees here in Barcelona, aknowledged my call for displaying one’s business ideas in order to gather feedbacks from potential clients, and finally come up with a better product/service. Check his post here (post entitled “La recette pour donner un penchant Web 2.0 à son site“, sorry guys, in French only, not my fault).

Hubert has actually just opened a blog on his own entrepreneurial project: a one-stop collaborative, user-generated, Google Maps powered real estate investment platform. The project’s name is Geonimmo. I encourage all my French-speaking readers (sorry again, I obviously begged Hubert but couldn’t manage to convince him to blog in English) to participate in Geonimmo’s birth and future developments.

I hope more people will follow with such brave and yet pragmatic initiatives.

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IBM had achieved its goal in consolidating its by far leading competitive positions in both middleware software and consulting services – the latter aiming at implementing on demand e-Business solutions in all types of organizations.

However, Big Blue’s appetite doesn’t seem satisfied yet, and has made 2 major moves this week in 2 other, yet complementary, businesses: storage & security.

Storage: in a market dominated by EMC & HP (resp. 3,36bn$ and 2,97bn$ against 2,2 for IBM, source: IDC) , the Network Appliance – IBM partnership to deliver high performance 4 GBytes / sec. storage solutions (through combining Power 5 processing with a double-decked hierarchical classification: Fiber Channel for often accessed files, ATA for archives; this high-end solution’s named DS 8000 Turbo) has proved outperforming. The result is a significant increase of IBM’s market share, from 12,8% in December 2004 to 15,9% in December 2005, against EMC’s market share, down from 21,8% to 20,6%.

Security: IBM intended today a 1,3bn$ bid to take over Atlanta-based security company ISS (Internet Security Services). The plan is to integrate ISS into IBM Global Services and tackle better their clients’ growing concerns on intrusion matters. More about the potential deal on InfoWorld.

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