MWLUG 2017, "Moving Collaboration Forward", The New is Old and the Old is New
MWLUG 2017 mark the ninth annual ICS user group conference that we as a community are coming together to network and learn for each other. It will be held at the beautiful Hilton Mark Center in Alexandria, VA near Washington DC from August 8 - 10, 2017. Like always we are planning many activities at MWLUG. Unlike previous years, MWLUG 2017 will be held from Tuesday through Thursday rather than the previous years where the conference was held from Wednesday until Friday. This was one of the feedback that we receive last year. Our ICS community is in a state of transition as the market is changing and new technologies are introduced not just by IBM but from open source environment and other technology vendors. No one vendor can silo themselves within their own technology. Users are looking for the best breed. IBM has answered this call with new solutions derived from open source technology like Docker, MongoDB, and Node. However as the same time, these ...