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John Newton has spent the last 25 years building information management software, including co-founding Documentum, the enterprise content management software company with Howard Shao in 1990. John is currently Chairman and CTO of Alfresco, an open source enterprise content management system founded in 2005. John started his career in 1981...- more about John Newton »
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- Scaling out like Technorati
- My fellow World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, David Sifry, the founder of Technorati, was also in Dalian, China for the "Meeting of New Champions" or "Summer Davos" as the Chinese like to call it. During Davos in January, I had the great misfortune of pitching Alfresco against Technorati in a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Technorati, Data, Blog, User, JN, DS, John Newton
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Jimmy Wales and Enterprise Wikis
- At the Summer Davos in Dalian, China, I was able to speak to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, about wikis in the enterprise. Wikipedia has become not only the world's most popular wiki, but the ninth most popular web site in the world. Jimmy is here as a Young...
- Tags: Difference, Wiki, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Jimmy, MediaWiki, JN, JW, Wikia, John Newton
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Summer Davos in Dalian China
- Last week I was in Dalian, China for the World Economic Forum Inaugural Meeting of the New Champions. That's a mouthful, so the Chinese simply called it the "Summer Davos". It makes sense as this feels very much like Davos only a bit smaller and slightly more relaxed and less...
- Tags: China, Venture Capital, Davos, World Economic Forum, Dalian China, John Newton
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- REST-style architecture in the real world
- A couple of weeks ago, I presented REST to the IT staff in the London division of a major US investment bank. Out of something like 100 people, only a small number of people had ever heard of REST. Yet this bank had invested in a REST to SOAP bridge...
- Tags: SOA, REST, Information Management, Content Management
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Microsoft's 4th of July Trans-Atlantic assault on document standards
- On what is normally a slow period for news, Microsoft launched a concerted campaign to displace ODF and PDF as document access and retention standards on both sides of the Atlantic. Microsoft has proposed and lobbied for OOXML as an alternative to ODF and XPS as an alternative to Adobe's...
- Tags: Standards, OOXML, ODF, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Is Relational Relevant?
- Last week, some friends of mine from Ingres, the early relational database management system, attended a retrospective on relational database systems held at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley with other database pioneers from Oracle, Informix, IBM and Sybase. I was an early employee at Ingres which was the...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Information Management, Database
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Microsoft needs REST
- Apparently, Microsoft is diverging from the rest of the Web 2.0 world on how to approach integration and mashups. REST Representational State Transition is an architectural style that is transforming how systems integrate together, but it isn't a standard. The ATOM Publishing Protocol APP is and is a popular, RESTful...
- Tags: Web 2.0, REST, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- McKinsey's look into Web 2.0 in the enterprise
- The collection of techniques and technologies known as Web 2.0 is really only just beginning to have an affect on the enterprise. We are in that phase of market development where in Web 1.0 enterprises just started to realize that the internet is the new brochureware. Enterprises are starting to...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- The opening of Web 2.0 service platforms
- Last week I was in San Francisco bay area talking to several Web 2.0 companies about their APIs. Much has been written about Facebook's new move to open up their platform to encourage others to help it evolve new services and I wanted to find out what services from Web...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- REST Battles SOAP for the Future of Information Services
- There has been some subterranean discussion in the content management standards arena about what is the best way to support the interoperability of content services with applications. Should vendors support content services through the myriad of web services support layers that have been developed over the last decade? Or should...
- Tags: Architecture, Enterprise Content Management, Information Management, REST, SOA, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- SarbOx Changes - Good for Corporates, Bad for IT
- Eric Savitz in a Barron's Online blog reports that on Wednesday the SEC approved new guidance on how to implement Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act. Section 404 is the portion of SarbOx that required CEOs to sign off on the documentation and effectiveness on internal controls and processes...
- Tags: Business Models, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Open source and business pleasure vs. business pain
- A European PR firm was pitching my company for business last week and putting out a few ideas on how to generate demand in different countries across Europe. One of the ideas that they presented was a "business pain barometer" to indicate how much pain companies might be feeling using...
- Tags: Business Models, Enterprise Software, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
Additional Resources
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide
- Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideGood riddance to bad rubbish.Too bad he took others with him.Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideThis is very sad. There was no reason for him to take other people's lives.Much sadder then you think. Much SadderAs an avid computer enthusiast, owning...
- Tags: INTERNET, apparent murder-suicide, Escapee, murder-suicide, Spam King
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Government, markets and regulation
- Problems in the housing market in the United States provide some interesting lessons about government regulation in general, lessons that have equal applicability to the intersection between Information Technology and government. by John Carroll
- Tags: Fannie Mae, Economist, Regulation, Freddie Mac, Subsidy, Government, Vertical Industries, Mortgages, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Capital Structures, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics
- In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- A look at the recent Firefox 3 vulnerability
- A look at the recent Firefox 3 vulnerabilityLOLAlways makes me laugh when a Firefox article is written critical of it, no one adds an opinion.If this were about IE, the thread would be huge.quit making such a big deal, read moreWhy do people write about security vulnerabilities that have happened...
- Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, vulnerability, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
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