More unsolicited advice for Sun: Buy Borland's IDEs
Sun already has designs on converting, in the field, the Borland tools shops to use the Sun/NetBeans tools. That will be very rough hoeing, friends.
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Dana Gardner
Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm.
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SOA rollout process still seems messy, perhaps for the best
The way SOA emerges in any given organization more closely resembles a Jackson Pollock painting in terms of process ... do it your own messy way.
My interview with Borland's Tod Nielsen on the future of development producitvity
Our customers are asking us to pursue innovation on the pre-deployment side ... By automating the menial tasks, individual developers can now spend more time innovating, delivering value and being a better partner to the business.
Live Clipboard gives Windows assets a new set of wings
Live Clipboard is, in effect, a compromise that could be amenable to the major parties affected ... something we don't see neatly enough of from vendors.
Take a deeper dive on the AJAX-SOA match-up
The goal of the rich Internet application (RIA) model is to provide lightweight yet easy to consume applications that are served primarily from services borne of a SOA.
OSS stacks in search of messaging infrastructure gain strong choices
Very interesting use-case scenario for Open-Xchange 5. When price and user experience are so compelling, when compared to Domino and Microsoft Exchange Server, can the inclusion of such messaging components within general OSS stacks -- just second-nature choices for embedded collaboration functions -- be far behind?
Self-IT analysis is the wave of the future
Does it then make sense to pay for pricey annual subscriptions to access an analysis firm's findings that, when the stodgy documents arrive two months after the market moves, are no better than what an RSS reader, Google search, and iTunes can give you on the same subjects within hours of a meaningful event in IT?
SOA requires that you get your data act together
The bottom line is that application developers need data access in an automated and simplified manner. Give it to them. Your SOA process architects will thank you later on.
Message to Google: Get some packaging ASAP
I would really appreciate some added help here from Google. Can you package this a little for me, please?
E-commerce, meet your successor: Knowledge commerce
The new guiding force is not buyer beware, it's seller behave. Let's kiss off the rip off.