Monthly Archives: October 2008

Nomos Software at OpenCoffee

Tricia and David from Nomos Software demoed their software on Friday. Whilst it was a highly technical topic, we had an excellent QA session about the business side of things. From their own site: “Nomos Software applies model driven engineering, code generation and declarative rules-based techniques to the management and control of data”.

This was the [...]

Questions for Tom Keane?

As Tom had to fly off the other day, many people didn’t get a chance to ask him a question. Head on over to the eWrite Blog and Gordon will pass on any questions you have there.

A Few Small Changes to Cork OCC

Based on feedback from attendees we’re making two small changes to the way we do things at OpenCoffee. 
The first concerns the round-table introductions which many feel are taking up far too much time. So from Oct 24th onwards you have 30 seconds or less to introduce yourself. I recommend three sentences: [1] Your name and [...]

Cork OCC’s Monday talk and next two events

Monday’s special OCC in the NSC was exactly that, special. The boardroom was jammed full of people, many of them new faces to hear Tom Keane talk about Nitrosell, his history and his advice on growing a business. I was completely riveted by what he had to say since so much of it applied directly [...]

it@cork Annual Conference Announced

The it@cork annual conference has just been announced. Its title is “GREEN IT: Reduce CO2, Raise Profits” and it’s on November 26 in the lovely Radisson SAS Hotel in Cork.
The line-up looks like an excellent mix with the focus being clearly on Green as it relates to IT and Business. I particularly like the profit angle given [...]

Special OpenCoffee on Monday 13th (Not Friday!)

We’re running a special one-off OpenCoffee this coming Monday (13th) instead of the usual Friday. It’s a bit unusual in that we’ve invited a speaker to come in and talk about how he grew his business and raised funding. That person is Tom Keane, President of Nitrosell. He has a long history in the software [...]