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Monkcast #8: Goodbye Zimbra, Hello Google Apps (for RedMonk)

Monkcast #8: Goodbye Zimbra, Hello Google Apps for RedMonkSo, how do you dl the podcast? All I see is a play button. NTnt

Tags: Podcasts, Zimbra, RedMonk, Google Apps, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-08

Monkcast #8: Goodbye Zimbra, Hello Google Apps (for RedMonk)

Although we took a circuitous route to get there, the bulk of this week's discussion had to do with RedMonk's migration off Zimbra to Google Apps (a process that was apparently managed by RedMonk's Stephen O'Grady who, ironically, wasn't present for the podcast). But before we found our way...

Tags: General, Google Apps To-Do List, IT Management, MonkCast Podcast, Office 2.0, Podcasts, Software Infrastructure, Web technology

Blog posts 2007-07-06

RedMonk scores a hat trick in analyst blogger rankings

Congratulations to the boys over at RedMonk -- James Governor, Stephen O'Grady, and Michael Coté -- who, in that order, landed 1-2-3 atop Technobabble 2.0's Top 50 Analyst Blogger ratings (well above heavyweight Gartner whose best showing was #41).  We've always known that RedMonk's blend of analysis, candor, humor, and...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-06-19

ZDNet's first MonkCast: Will SAP's A1S service disrupt its on-premises A1?

In what I hope will be a regularly recurring podcast here on ZDNet, we've launched our first "MonkCast." On a periodic basis weekly is the goal, I'll be interviewing James Governor, principal analyst and co-founder of the research outfit Redmonk see his blog and his fellow researchers at Redmonk...

Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Matters Podcast, MonkCast Podcast, Open Source, Podcasts, Software Infrastructure, Web technology

Blog posts 2007-05-18

Redmonk: Microsoft most important company in RSS

Redmonk's James Governor: The A-list may prefer pure web-based solutions but the Vista wave will take feeds into the mainstream.... allowing Metcalfe's Law to kick in....If feeds are to move into the mainstream its going to need offerings packaged for both mainstream consumer and...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., RSS

Blog posts 2006-01-06

Additional Resources

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

The changing analyst landscape

The recent Institute of Industry Analyst Relations poll results produced some startling results. While the power hitters of Gartner, IDC and Forrester were well represented, it was the boutique groups that caught my attention. Redmonk, MWD and Freeform Dynamics all performed well across multiple categories, despite being minnows in the...

Tags: Analyst, Ray, Blogging, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Commercial OpenSolaris ships

After a three-year incubation period, Sun's long promised OpenSolaris, the third open source variant of Unix, was officially delivered Monday. "It's the first Opensolaris operating system that's fully supported," said Jim McHugh, vice president of Solaris marketing for Sun. OpenSolaris will compete in a...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-04

As SOA hype turns five, IBM turns to Smart SOA Social Network to bind communities of users

The global WebSphere ecology has trooped to Las Vegas this week for the IBM Impact 2008 conference, with a kick-off rally of sorts in the MGM Grand arena this morning. I saw Fleetwood Mac here at a Comdex, must have been 12 years ago. IBM has sure...

Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., WebSphere Ecology, PT, Smart SOA Social Network, Lotus Connections, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Strong sales focus as SAP shuffles the board

Following today's announcement of board changes at SAP, it is clear the company is looking to strengthen sales representation. As I suggested earlier Henning Kagermann will retire next May handing over the CEO's spot to Leo Apotheker. He will be supported by Bill McDermott who now has a global sales...

Tags: Board, Peter Zencke, SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Corporate Governance, Sales, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-02

Taming Ruby on Rails with FiveRuns

According to Gartner, the number of Ruby On Rails developers will grow to some 4 million by 2013. While many of these will be hobbyists, Gartner believes the largest area of growth will be inside the firewall. There's one problem. Until recently, there have not been...

Tags: Developer, Performance, Environment, Ruby, FiveRuns, Ruby On Rails, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-18

Sleazy analysts and corporate weasels

IT buyers look to industry analysts for wisdom in understanding the past, counsel in handling the present, and advice when future plans go awry. Unfortunately, this symbiotic relationship between analysts and their corporate masters can include a complicated mix of mutual respect and fear, punctuated by...

Tags: Analyst, Blog, Business Ethics, Blogging, Leadership, Management, Internet, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-03-09

Bungee Labs opens developer platform-as-a-service

Bungee Labs launched a public beta of a new version of its BungeeConnect, an on demand application development platform for professional programmers. The concept is similar to what salesforce.com is doing with its Force.com platform, although Bungee Labs claims that it is differentiated on the basis of being purely...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Concept, Application, Server, Programming Language, Pricing Strategy, Bungee Labs, BungeeConnect, Amazon EC2, Application Builder, Sales Force Management, Data Centers, Sales, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-02-18

New Eclipse-based tools from Genuitec offer developers more choices in migrating to IBM WebSphere 6.1

Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Genuitec. The arrival of the IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 presents Eclipse-oriented developers with some big decisions. The newest version of this popular runtime will depend largely on Rational Application Developer RAD for tooling. While this recent runtime environment...

Tags: Developer, IBM WebSphere, Environment, Web Service, Eclipse, Tool, IBM Corp., Genuitec, MyEclipse Blue Edition, Eclipse Obviously, Productivity, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-02-08

Why do people deploy processing virtualization?

Why do people deploy processing virtualization?Sounds like cloud computingI recently did a "Demystifying Clouds" blog that explains a lot of the confusion around the topic. In think your reader will enjoy it...http://www.johnmwillis.com/redmonk/demystifying-clouds/Thanks!I'm sure the readers will enjoy learning more about the topic.Dan K

Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

A thought about Utility Computing

A thought about Utility ComputingThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Data Center.Nicholas Carr is Earth's answer to Oolon Colluphid. Everywhere he looks, IT is dying. I expect him to release his new book, "Well, That About Wraps It Up For IT" any day now.Of course, centralized processing is not the entire...

Tags: Hitchhiker, IT IS, utility computing, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

What about the trust issues in the Microsoft/Yahoo bid?

Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo! raises many questions. High in the list will be discovering Microsoft plans for the merged development organizations. On the press call, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO was careful to point out the extent to which Microsoft 'respects' Yahoo!'s development efforts. The fact is that Yahoo! is...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Del.icio.us, Yahoo! Inc., Fact, Flickr, Microsoft Corp., Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-02-01

Newsgator's saturation strategy is paying off

Earlier today, Newsgator announced new releases of its most popular applications: FeedDemon 2.6, NetNewsWire 3.1, Inbox 3.0 beta, and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0. According to Greg Reinecker, Newsgator's CTO: Each of these is a pretty major release on its own - tons of new features in all...

Tags: Strategy, NewsGator, RSS, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-09

DataPortability.org Workgroup is still born

As I write this, the interwebs are kicking off with the news that Plaxo, Facebook, Google and Robert Scoble have joined the DataPortability.org Workgroup. I can hear the cries already. First up Mike Butcher at TechCrunch who in Twitter said this is MASSIVE NEWS and reported that: As TechCrunch...

Tags: Purpose, Law, European Union, Social Networking, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-08

Check out episode 1 of RIA Weekly

This week I recorded the inaugural episode episode link of a podcast I'll be doing with Michael Coté from Redmonk. In Coté's words, there's not a centralized area to go for weekly news, so that's the theme for the podcast. I'm going to be taking stuff from my shared items...

Tags: Podcast, Rich Internet Application, Episode, Podcasts, Internet, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-11-21