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- Can open source deliver serious numbers?
- Today I talked with Darryl Dewan of VA Software about the company's latest numbers. These are good numbers. Total revenue was up 43%. There was even net income.Dewan credited software sales. Sourceforge Enterprise Edition has made 164 sales during the last quarter alone, despite being a free download for up...
- Tags: open source, Darryl Dewan
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- SourceFORGE calls the center fine
- Don't cry for SourceFORGE, insists Darryl Dewan of VA Software, which runs it. The center is doing fine."We still have 24 million unique visitors, 2 million downloads a day, and 125,000 active projects. We're doing a lot of work to make that experience a whole lot better," he told me...
- Tags: SourceForge
- Blog posts 2006-07-28
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- Yeah, I needed to fly to San Francisco to see this...
- Yeah, I needed to fly to San Francisco to see this...Hrumph!This gives geeks a bad name. Worse even than ponytails, Van Dyke beards, pocket protectors, geocaching, or one-button mice.OT: languageYou frequently use Yiddish terms oy vey. Do you speak it? I find this almost vanished language interesting, both because of...
- Tags: Yiddish
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?
- Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS. eWeek's Darryl Taft quotes Shuttleworth Techmeme: "The great task in front of...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Operating System, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- What if Microsoft had picked a different Chief Software Architect?
- Microsoft has been orchestrating carefully for the past few years the transition of Bill Gates from Chief Software Architect CSA and regular participant in product planning meetings, to "mere" Chairman. (Gates' actual "last day" is June 30.) But it turns out Microsoft may have been planning this...
- Tags: Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Visual Studio 2008 coming next week
- The MSDN Subscriptions Weblog is telling us that Visual Studio 2008 will be available to subscribers early next week. Darryl Taft of eWeek has some additional information about the VS 2008 release with a supposed date of November 19th. Visual Studio 2008 has a number of features...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, MSDN Subscriptions Weblog, Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-11-17
- Will Web 2.0 displace the WS-* protocols?
- eWeek's Darryl Taft finally brought the worlds of SOA and Web 2.0 together in an article loaded with practical examples and insights.For example, H&R Block -- which uses a lot of seasonal workers, especially in the weeks leading up to April 15th -- deployed SOA-connected AJAX portlets to more than...
- Tags: Web Services, Case Studies, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Some ringing endorsements for REST
- Is REST the future of SOA?Some analysts think so.The battle between SOAP/WS-* and REST proponents has been going on for some time now. In fact, a little over a year ago, Gartner's Darryl Plummer pointed out in an oft-discussed article that the Web services world had actually split into two...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- OSGi gains momentum as .NET alternative at EclipseCon
- Excellent story by Darryl K. Taft at eWeek on the Open Services Gateway Initiative OSGi framework. Its worth a read.Ill be digging into this more this week at the conference, for sure.
- Tags: .NET, Agile Development, Apache, Developer Tools, Eclipse, Enterprise Java, Open Source, SOA, Software Development, Windows
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Analyst: Wall Street likes Microsoft's SOA message
- Wall Street may call the shots for which technologies run Main Street, but who runs Wall Streets own technologies? Wall Street firms have mainly the crown jewels of IBM and Sun Microsystems, but at least one analyst said Microsoft is also becoming a force to be reckoned with. As Darryl...
- Tags: Vendor Watch, Web Services, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-17
- IBM: Net's future is mobile middleware
- Maybe all you need to connect millions of mobile devices to the Internet is some snazzy middleware from IBM.Darryl Taft at eWeek reports:IBM Research is working on delivering a middleware system that will enable users to tap into the data on mobile devices to create a virtually unlimited pool of...
- Tags: IBM Corp., middleware, Mobile, Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- Would open source make elections fair?
- Would open source make elections fair?Unintentional duplication, I presume.There's a paragraph that appears to be making its point by repetition.You DON'T want receiptsVoting receipts is an idiotic idea and it only invites more corruption.Our votes are supposed to be [b]secret[/b] for a reason - so that votes cannot be bought...
- Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, Network security, SECURITY, PKI, ballot, open source, Diebold Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-06
- Microsoft and Novell, strategic partnerhip or unholy alliance?
- Microsoft and Novell, strategic partnerhip or unholy alliance?stop making stuff up"SCO also claims ownership to SVR4 and UnixWare, which they believe they acquired from Novell in 1995""That said, if Novell loses its suit with SCO which seems unlikely"Have you read the contract papers. If you havent stop making stuff up....
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., SCO UnixWare, alliance, SCO Group Inc., Novell Inc., SVR4
- Discussion threads 2006-11-03
- Microsoft's Desktop Windows staff: We love Javascript. Microsoft's Mobile Windows staff: What's Javascript?
- When AJAX, otherwise known as Asynchronous Javascript and XML, first became all the rage mostly thanks to Google, Microsoft didn't waste anytime reminding AJAX-watchers that it pioneered the idea of mass-distributed AJAX-based applications with its browser-based version of Outlook (aka: Outlook Web Access or OWA for short). See Will the...
- Tags: ASP.NET AJAX, AJAX
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
- Speaking of the heavy lifting that Apex does, what about Flapjax?
- If Amazons Jeff Bezos had something to say about Apex, he might say "it handles muck so developers dont have to." I refer to muck as heavy lifting. Anybody remember the days when, in DOS, what was being shown on screen had to be painted one pixel at a time?...
- Tags: AJAX, Scripting languages, Flapjax, developer, Apex
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- Can open source deliver serious numbers?
- Can open source deliver serious numbers?YesThe future is beyond bright for FLOSS.http://opendomain.blogspot.com/Says it allI just found this, and it says it all!http://www.eefoof.com/image/13920Umm, what are serious numbers?We're in the United States. "A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon we are talking about serious money." That's a local...
- Tags: Operating systems, industry, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2006-09-19
- HP's big-time SOA entree
- The big fish keep eating the smaller fish who already ate even smaller fish. And sometimes a little "mercury" in the fish isn't such a bad thing. The two percent that Systinet Registry represents may have clinched...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mercury Interactive Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-27
- Sun's commitment to R&D, developers is too easily dismissed
- Between the keynote "inquisition" of Sun's newly installed CEO Jonathan Schwartz at Gartner Symposium and the press conference that followed, I had a lot to think about on the flight home from San Francisco yesterday. To be fair, the Gartner analysts Paul McGuckin and Darryl Plummer who...
- Tags: information technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz
- Blog posts 2006-05-18
- The Success Factors of renting apps are too many to ignore
- On the flight home from Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo (and JavaOne, which I originally didn't go to cover), I sat next to and met for the first time SuccessFactors client executive Martin Pitkow. Prior to meeting Mr. Pitkow, I'd never even heard of SuccessFactors. While CRM specialists Salesforce.com, RightNow Technologies, and...
- Tags: INTERNET, E-mail, Martin Pitkow, SuccessFactors Inc., Doug Gold
- Blog posts 2006-05-18
- Gartner: Software development will cease to exist
- Gartner: Software development will cease to existWould that be a 0.9 certainty?"Perhaps Gartner research director Darryl Plummer should have tried his message out on the folks across the street at NetBeans day a prelude to JavaOne before going out on a bit of a limb by saying software development will...
- Tags: Development tools, RSS, programmer, software, Gartner Inc., software development
- Discussion threads 2006-05-16
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