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BMW’s 2002 ‘Hommage’ concept celebrates 50 years of iconic coupes

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Fifty years ago, BMW unveiled the now-iconic 2002 model and set the stage for current German sport luxury brand that we know and love today.

It’s hard to believe, but before the 2002 model, BMW wasn’t really BMW. I mean, it was. But it wasn’t recognized on the global stage as a style and performance brand. The 2002, specifically the turbo model, changed all of that.

In honor of that anniversary, for this years’ Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, BMW created a modern interpretation of the 2002 turbo called the 2002 Hommage. The extra ‘m’ in homage must be for the BMW M division, I assume. Read more…

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IBM’s OpenPOWER: A Lot Has Changed In Two Years

The OpenPOWER consortium was born of IBM’s own volition only two years ago last month. Back then, OpenPOWER was a partnership between five companies, IBM, Google, Mellanox Technologies, NVIDIA and Tyan. Recently, the OpenPOWER Foundation marked their two year anniversary by talking about the growth of the foundation and its membership to 149 members in 22 countries and the broad licensing that has occurred thanks to IBM’s open licensing model. I talked about the OpenPOWER Foundation back in April of last year and the announcement of IBM’s new Power8 processors with their OpenPOWER partners. Since launch and last April’s announcement, OpenPOWER has really come along quite a bit and I wanted to take a 50,000 foot level view at where OpenPOWER started and where IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation have gone since then.


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