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An Aspect-Oriented Approach to Bypassing Middleware Layers

The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management, request despatching, Quality-of-Service QoS etc. In a typical middleware platform, every request passes through each layer, whether or not the services provided by...

Tags: Aspect-oriented, Middleware Platform, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-03-16

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A Forrester interview with Steve Ballmer about the SharePoint Business

I had the pleasure to sit down with Steve Ballmer for an interview at the Microsoft SharePoint conference in Las Vegas this week. My research team at Forrester spends a lot of time thinking, researching, and writing about the future of information work. So getting Steve’s view on SharePoint’s decade-long...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Steve Ballmer, Forrester Research Inc., Steve, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Matthew Brown

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Demand this from software vendors

I was getting a briefing last week from a software executive. We got to a point in the conversation where the discussion was focusing on existing products. I moved the conversation to a different space, though. If you're getting a pitch from a vendor, you should move the conversation, too!...

Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Art of the software deal can get messy

Software buyers and vendors are increasingly butting heads amid a budget squeeze and increasingly aggressive sales tactics, according to Gartner. In a series of presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium in Orlando, analysts walked buyers through a few negotiating tactics with the likes of SAP, Microsoft, Oracle,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Gartner Inc., Customer, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Negotiation, Software Audit, Software-as-a-service Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Free Trade, Sales Strategy, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Salesforce.com and CODA hook up

Salesforce.com and CODA (via its parent Unit 4 Agresso) are hooking up to create FinancialForce.com. While financial details of the arrangement were not revealed, Salesforce.com is a minority stakeholder in the new company. From the blurbs: The CODA 2go team and products have transferred to FinancialForce.com, which will...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CODA, FinancialForce.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-30

EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG anticompetitive?

M$ is anticompetitive by natureGoogle on the other hand is a good citizen for everyone.RE: EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG antico"Even if it does cause ?antitrust effects,? wouldn?t the end result be a stronger competitor for Google? Clearly. That would be good for consumers...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Digital media, Digital music, Investment, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

SPS Commerce Implements Business Intelligence Platform to Streamline Supply Chains for Customers

SPS Commerce wanted to implement internet-based business intelligence to deliver supply chain and point-of-sale information to its customers and harness high volume of data traveling among trading partners - retailers and suppliers - to provide customers with information that will help them optimize their supply chains. The challenge was to...

Tags: Business Intelligence, SPS Commerce, Supply Chain, Oracle Corp., Streamline, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-09-01

News to know: Microsoft; Apple; Palm; Twitter as botnet command channel

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Exchange 2010 buzz grows louder Ryan Naraine: Brazilian ID thieves using Twitter as botnet command channel...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Palm Inc., Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, Tablets, Notebooks, Digital Cameras, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-08-14

VMware's vision: Clouds everywhere

While I was making my way out to San Francisco for OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/Cloudworld, VMware issued a press release stating that they were acquiring Spring Source, a supplier of Platform as a Service offerings. This, I believe, opens the door for VMware to offer a nearly complete, end-to-end solution...

Tags: Solution, Data Center, Open Source, PaaS, Vision, Supplier, VMware Inc., Tool, SpringSource, Spring Framework, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-12

VMware completes the PaaS to vCloud

If you’ve been wondering why an infrastructure leader would acquire a developer framework, the answer is a bit more complex that what shows on the surface â€" and a lot more strategic. As stated in the press release and in the blogs by VMware CTO Steve Herrod and SpringSource CEO...

Tags: Java, PaaS, VMware Inc., SpringSource, Microsoft Windows Azure, Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-08-11

VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo?

VMware said Monday that it will pay $420 million for privately held SpringSource in a bid to become a bigger player in cloud computing application management and the open source community. VMware, a virtualization leader that is angling to become a cloud infrastructure OS giant, said that...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Open Source, VMware Inc., SpringSource, Spring Framework, Virtualization, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Upgrading Custom Java EE Applications From Oracle Application Server to WebLogic Server

As outlined from the Oracle June 1, 2008 web broadcast "BEA Welcome and Oracle Middleware Strategy" Oracle WebLogic Server is the strategic application server infrastructure for the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g platform. Oracle Internet Application Server will continue to be developed, maintained, and released according to Oracle's standard lifetime support...

Tags: Oracle Application Server, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic, Oracle Corp., Java, Application Server, Application Servers, Middleware, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-01

Can Oracle give Java a boost (and monetize it better)?

The prize in Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems is Java, but the big question is whether Larry Ellison and the gang can monetize the popular platform and bolster its standing against up and coming programming languages. In a research note, J.P. Morgan analyst Adam Holt examines Oracle's...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Middleware, Holt, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-11

TIBCO takes PaaS plus integration capabilities to global enterprises via their choice of clouds

Combining platform as a service PaaS with a built-in ability to integrate and manage hybrid cloud deployments, TIBCO Software today threw its hat in the cloud computing ring by taking its middleware and Java development and deployment platforms to new heights. Coinciding with the JavaOne conference and...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., PaaS, TIBCO Silver, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Service Level Management, Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, It service Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Red Hat and the Telecommunications Industry

The telecommunications industry is in a constant state of great change and opportunity. To remain technologically viable and seize market opportunities as they arise, telecoms need flexible, high-performing, carrier-grade solutions. That's why Red Hat offers the JBoss Communications Platform, a reliable middleware platform, already deployed in production by top-tier telecoms,...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Industry, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Open Source, Telecommunications, Networking

White papers 2009-06-01

Xbox 360 to challenge Wii with motion-sensing camera?

Xbox 360 to challenge Wii with motion-sensing camera?Wii isn't successful because of technologyIt's the games, stupid. More mainstream appeal. The average person isn't interested in playing games to kill people or work on quests that take weeks to finish, they just want to have fun.This failed on the PS2 alreadyI...

Tags: Games, Microsoft Xbox 360, game, Microsoft Corp., Nintendo Wii, camera, Microsoft Xbox

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Where Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) must go next

More Robust Apps Needed NOW! Platform-as-a-Service is hot these days. Vendors like NetSuite and salesforce.com have their clouds as to players like Amazon and Google. Cloud providers like to promote their capabilities to application developers and, in doing so, create an ecosystem full of low-cost applications for...

Tags: Software Company, PaaS, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-05-08

HP Software: Talking strategy; Looking to grow; Gunning for Teradata

Hewlett-Packard's software unit is tiny relative to the company's overall revenue, but it is being counted on to fuel future growth. The plan: Expand into the data warehouse market occupied by the likes of Teradata, focus on performance and project management and continue to automate data centers.  ...

Tags: Software, Strategy, Teradata, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Software Unit, Data Centers, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-05

OS execs split over fate of MySQL under Oracle's grip

  The fate of Sun's open source jewels -- especially MySQL -- has been heavily debated since Oracle announced its intentions to buy the Java giant earlier this week.  Few expect the Redwood Shores, Calif. database giant to mess with Java. It is a...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Operating System, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-04-24

Sun sells soul for 10 cents more

Sun sells soul for 10 cents moreThis is a best fit and should have happened long time ago...As explained by Dana Blankhorn in http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4014 (Why is Oracle picking up the Sun mess?), the following single reason is alone good enough to justify this acquisition"This is a defensive move. To quote...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Programming languages, Operating systems, UNIX, Middleware, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sun sells soul, IBM Corp., Sun Sells, Java

Discussion threads 2009-04-20