Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Business, Enterprise, Red Hat on Sep 6th, 2008
As I’ve said before – if you are trying to grow a business based on Subscriptions and Open Source Software that is already freely available then everything else you provide – productization and certification, consulting and support has to be the best. Red Hat, unlike many of it’s competitors has decided to make technical support [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 video introduction. [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Enterprise, open source, Technology 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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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 (Documents, [...]