TECHNOLOGY: "A Second Chance for Second Life: Northrop, IBM Use Virtual World as Setting for Training, Employee Meetings," by Scott Morrison, Wall Street Journal< 19 August 2009.
Big global companies need virtual gathering spaces (trade shows, employee meetings, corporate training and other events).
It's an old rule of mine: any System Perturbation increases the desire to use virtual meeting technologies. Sometimes it's safety, sometimes it's money.



