Analysts, bloggers, reporters -- let them all in
The function seems to be munging, so shouldn't they all get equal access?
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Analyst Dana Gardner examines IT news and trends that impact software strategists to provide insights and outcomes on SOA, app dev, SaaS, enterprise infrastructure and mobile convergence.
Dana Gardner
Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm.
Latest Posts
Microsoft's Softricity buy: I hear a new tune from Redmond
Microsoft could provide Softricity's functionality to enterprises so that they could take their custom-developed Windows environment applications and convert then into streamed application services, with an efficient grid-like infrastructure for support.
Software is not dead, development is going mainstream
Oddly, at the same time as this trend-line of accelerating developer capability/productivity amid a larger global pool of developer talent, Gartner is saying development is dead.
DSO diagnostics and remediation extends into full device lifecycle
We can think of this improvement as extending what you can do with an iPod, in terms of software evolution that's independent of the hardware, to all sorts of connected consumer, industrial, and automotive devices.
Terracotta carves out new niche with clustering for JVMs
In a business where utilization efficiency is king, reliability essential, and SOA an imperative, the clustered JVM model seems a no-brainer.
Sun further commits to open source Java
The news is that NetBeans gets support from JBoss (as well as another on-stage plug by Motorola CEO and Sun alum Ed Zander), and Java to be open sourced properly at some point in the future.
So much for Oracle and NetBeans
I thought maybe: "Oracle Adopts NetBeans as Development Platform -- Tells Most Developers to Go to Hell."
OMG CEO Richard Soley on standards, complexity and productivity
Soley provides keen insights and education into what it takes to conjure and cajole that elusive critical beast: the neutral but authoritative industry third party.
CRN sleuth Barb Darrow on IT vendor sports
Now as longtime Industry Editor and pithy blogger at CRN, she's the Helen Thomas (in only the best possible way) of the IT press corp.