Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Business, Enterprise, Red Hat, Technology on Jun 5th, 2008
JBoss.org has had unparalleled success in launching innovative OSS tech. into the enterprise - something not lost on the folks at Railo. More on Sacha’s blog
Bill Burke, esteemed JBoss old-timer and fellow at Red Hat continues to make progress with RESTEasy (an implementation of JSR-311 aka JAX-RS) - if my inbox is anything to go […]
Posted in Enterprise on Jun 5th, 2008
So now every vendor is claiming a modular architecture for their enterprise Java runtime. This is progress and maybe OSGi really will become the standard framework for enabling modular architectures. Unfortunately people needed this capability 5 years ago.
It’s great to see the innovators rallying around such a good cause - but look at the dates […]
Posted in Enterprise, Red Hat, Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2008
JON 2.0 sounds like a cheesey-made-for-cable film you’d find on SciFi channel during the afternoon (not that I would know).
But it’s not - JON stands for JBoss Operations Network. There’s a myth that open source ‘products’ tend to be a bit rough around the edges, not easy to use, no flashy consoles, etc. Well, JON […]
Posted in Enterprise, Technology on Mar 12th, 2008
Sun’s innovative Modular Data Center (aka BlackBox) will be at the SAS Institute Campus in my hometown of Cary, North Carolina today. I had a good look around when the BlackBox tour started last year in California; and I would definitely recommend taking some time out to take a look - here’s a […]
Posted in Enterprise, Technology on Mar 11th, 2008
As a technologist I’ve managed to completely avoid the world of databases; I think it had something to do with a bad reaction to relational algebra in a CS class. However - my employer has made its aspirations clear so I thought I should at least take some interest.
IDC have just released their RDBMS Vendor […]
Posted in Enterprise, Technology, open source on Mar 5th, 2008
If you work in the IT / software industry and unless you’ve been shipwrecked on a deserted island for the last 5 years you have probably followed the rise of JBoss. I have tracked them very closely as a competitor. Founded in 2001; JBoss proved the commercial Open Source model, disrupted the incumbents in an […]
Posted in Enterprise, Technology on Mar 3rd, 2008
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The chances of me attending this year are […]
Posted in Enterprise, Google on Feb 28th, 2008
Over a year after acquiring JotSpot, Google have just announced the launch of Google Sites - currently available as a Google Apps service and therefore aimed at organizations rather than individuals.
I had a very quick look this morning and it’s pretty nice (and pretty free) - it really pulls together the other services […]