Apple-IBM enterprise apps released!

Wow, take a look at this blog by the legendary John Gruber:

" These don’t look like “enterprise” apps. They look like regular apps — really good ones, the sort of apps Apple would choose to feature in the App Store. This was a huge question I had about this deal. Great design is fundamental to what sets iOS apart, and what has enabled iOS to lead the post-PC disruption of the entire consumer computing industry. Would great UI design play a part in this IBM/Apple enterprise endeavor? Looks to me like the answer is yes."

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/12/10/apple-ibm-enterprise-apps

One of the key initiatives of the IBM-Apple partnership is that Apple engineers will bring their legendary UI/UX design leadership to help IBM move one hundred enterprise apps into the iOS platform. That means, the new IBM apps on iOS platform will not only feature enterprise grade functionalities but it will also have Apple-grade user interface and experience! These are seriously great future to look forward to! 

Look at the beautiful designed enterprise apps here:

http://www.apple.com/business/mobile-enterprise-apps/#insurance

Wordpress in Bluemix

I saw this in Bluemix Dashboard this morning - Wordpress templates! In Bluemix! Whaaaat? That is so cool! Wordpress is the popular website template that you see in those super cool, beautiful websites. Those Web 3.0 type with all the bells and whistles that are widely popular among true web designers.  And now it's in Bluemix! That means, one day we will see all these cool website made by famous designers hosted in Bluemix. How cool can that be. Coolest! That's what my 5 year old will exclaim!

MVCA

Just spent an hour with members of Malaysia Venture Capitalist Association, to share about our program for cloud startup. They seemed very interested in the program which grant a US$10K/month of IBM cloud services for 12 months to their portfolio. That means, if the VC sees a great potential in a startup and invested in them, these guys can have their infrastructure and technology worries taken care of by IBM cloud, well, at least for a year. And that's the point. We kickstart their aspiration and when they are successful, they continue to use IBM cloud. Hopefully, we can make a difference for a startup. Check it out: ibm.biz/CloudStartup