Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 4th, 2009
It’s July 4th and we have an extended weekend in the US which is a good enough excuse to catch up on some blogging; at least until the Strawberry Margaritas start flowing. At Java One this year we announced an initiative called Open Choice which I blogged about previously. Fundamentally Open Choice is about broadening [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2009
I just noticed the JBoss AS 5.0.0 GA community release downloads had a strong start over the break – ~40k in 3 weeks – that’s more than 5.0.0 CR2 accumulated in 3 months (note I’m only looking at the downloads reported from JBoss.org).
OpenLogic have the results of a survey on Open Source web / application [...]
Posted in Business, Technology on Nov 26th, 2008
Since first posting – I’ve added Open Office and Java FX – just goes to show – Sun have a lot of stuff.
I promised myself I wouldn’t bite; yet here I am. I’m contributing to the “Here’s what Sun should do meme”. And why not - I’m as good a keyboard-CEO as the next person [...]
Posted in Business on Oct 7th, 2008
The Websphere Marketing team must be overjoyed to read the recent EDC report – “Application Servers 2008 Rankings” by Janel Garvin (it’s free but you need to register). The report is almost too good to be true for Big Blue – Not only does IBM win outright but it also kicks BEA / Oracle’s butt [...]
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 [...]