Inside IBM's New App-Building Training Ground

IBM is offering a space and a methodology for developers and companies to build enterprise apps. Beer and ping-pong included.

The space was a large, vacant, concrete-filled floor in a lower Manhattan office building. Plastic tarps covered many of the walls; wide columns held the building up; construction workers toiled away at various tasks. My guide pointed in the direction of a wall and said that a "public-facing" cafe would be there. The rest of the 50,000-plus square feet space would be generally open, a place for people to sit at a desk and work or talk with others about what they're working on.

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