 | Level: Introductory Scott Laningham (scottla@us.ibm.com), Podcast Editor, IBM developerWorks
01 Apr 2008 Listen to a chat about a new Rational® RFE community on
developerWorks. Not familiar with podcasting? Learn more. In this podcast
In this 13-minute podcast, Beth Friday, vice president of Rational's
worldwide client support, and David Salinas, developerWorks project lead
for this new application, talk about what the new Rational Request For
Enhancement (RFE) community is, why developers should care, why it
represents a big improvement over past efforts, and developerWorks role it making it a reality.
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About the guests  Beth Friday is the vice president of Rational's worldwide client support.
She is responsible for the global technical support, client services, and
product-quality functions for the IBM Software Group, Rational Division.
She joined the IBM Rational team in 1997 and has more than 20 years of
experience in technical, account management, and business operations
management positions. She is dedicated to the pursuit of results and measurable customer success.  David Salinas is a Web application developer and has been on the
developerWorks team for four years. He has been with IBM since 1999 and
has attained numerous patents during that time. He is a project lead who
focuses on providing improvements to the developerWorks site, such as code
search and the Rational RFE community application. He is an avid RTS gamer
who is passionate about delivering results and improving the user experience.
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Podcast credits | 
| | Scott Laningham, host of developerWorks podcasts, was previously editor of developerWorks newsletters. Prior to IBM, he was an award-winning reporter and director for news programming featured on Public Radio International, a freelance writer for the American Communications Foundation and CBS Radio, and a songwriter/musician. |
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