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Creating a sales infrastructure for Sun

Creating a sales infrastructure for Sun$3.82 = Sun's stock price @ time of writingI won't argue that sun has some great technologies but it truly has no idea how to integrate or market them. IBM & HP have Server and services strategies that Sun has never had,Most of Sun's answers...

Tags: Workforce management, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, sales, Sun Microsystems Inc., Tim Bray

Discussion threads 2008-12-10

Cloudy views and more aaS

Microsoft's entry into the so-called cloud computing space sparked off some collateral knock about posts between Tim O'Reilly and Nick Carr with Tim Bray and Stephen O'Grady joining in. At first blush each seems incredibly reasonable. When taken together they become as dense as some of...

Tags: Google Inc., Network Effect, Cloud Computing, Network, Microsoft Corp., Tim Bray, Tim, Stephen, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Tim Bray on surviving the tough times

Image via WikipediaTim Bray, director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems gave what I believe to be the most practical advice I've heard so far for those in startups looking forward. Speaking at FOWA, Tim's blunt view is that we are headed for tough times but that should not blind...

Tags: Personal Technology, Tim Bray, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-11

Thinking about multicore and software

Informit.com recently ran a fascinating Andrew Binstock interview with Donald Knuth touching on some of the same topics we discuss here - programming methods, the value of open source, and the links between programming and hardware change. I want to get...

Tags: Software, Job, T2, Multi-core, Hardware, Multi-threading, Tim Bray, Open Source, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Bray v. Carr: tech revolution, or regurgitation?

In a new blogospheric exchange, Nick Carr and Tim Bray are agreeing to disagree. This latest clash of visionaries is over whether the whole Internet paradigm represents something new and revolutionary Bray, or if it's merely a repeat of the same old pattern we've seen for generations Carr....

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), INTERNET, Web services, Middleware, Tim Bray

Blog posts 2006-08-10

Finally, an application for Origami (and maybe dinner for Tim Bray)

Tim Bray, Sun's grand poo-bah of Web technologies says: It’s guys like [Pavel Buzek] who are going to cost Berlind the price of a nice dinner. At issue here (and the...

Tags: Java development tools, Keyboards, Development tools, OOA/OOD/OOP, Pavel Buzek, Sun NetBeans, Tim Bray, Origami, Pogue, programming

Blog posts 2006-05-04

Bray: SOA too complex; 'just vendor BS'

XML co-founder Tim Bray posted his response to a question he was asked at a recent conference, “What do you think we should do about SOA?” He notes that, "weirdly, nobody had asked me before, and I could find only one answer: 'Don’t do anything. SOA may have meant something...

Tags: Tim Bray, SOA, Web-style

Blog posts 2006-04-21

XML founder takes on WS-splat

Tim Bray, founder of XML, has never been a big fan of the WS-* specs -- he has referred to them in the past as "bloated, opaque, and insanely complex." In a recent Weblog post, he weighs in on the issues raised by Gartner's Daryl Plummer in Optimize regarding the...

Tags: Tim Bray, Web, Web service

Blog posts 2006-03-29

XML co-inventor Bray responds to patent assault

After seeing the news this morning about how the CEO of Scientigo has plans to extract royalties from those who have implemented the XML specification including Microsoft, Oracle, and Amazon (actually, he could probably sue everybody), I asked the man credited with co-inventing XML -- Sun's Tim Bray -- what...

Tags: XML, Tim Bray

Blog posts 2005-10-21

The future of Java, part 1

"I would love to tinker with the Java language, but that’s not where I feel the pain now," said Java creator James Gosling during an early morning JavaOne session. He, along with Tim Bray, John Fowler and Simon Phipps, discussed the future of Java and applications development this morning at...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun NetBeans, Java, Tim Bray

Blog posts 2005-06-29

Post Toasties

I'm at the Kelsey Group conference on, well, not sure what it's on. I came down here to meet up with Seth Goldstein on an attention project. The title is Drilling Down on Local: The Online-Offline Opportunity.I spent most of yesterday afternoon chatting with LinkedIn's co-founder Konstantin Guericke, who opened...

Tags: LinkedIn

Blog posts 2005-04-20

Where's the simplicity in Web services?

As the number of Web services specifications proliferates, some developers advocate a return to a simpler approach. Has Web services, the technology intended to simplify programming, gotten too complex? A debate is raging over whether the number of specifications based on Extensible...

Tags: Web, Web Service, Protocol, Specification, REST, Tim Bray, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Martin LaMonica

News items 2004-10-05

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News to know: Wimax; Tech economy; Microsoft's big brains; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model Larry Dignan: Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Python's future looks bright

It always warms my heart to see good programmers get the recognition they deserve. This week, Sun announced they were hiring Ted Leung (long-time Python developer), and Frank Wierzbicki lead implementer of the Jython project. They'll be working full-time on Jython and in particular paying attention to developer tools. ...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Python, Jython, Wierzbicki, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Will OOXML get the ISO standards nod? It's not a given

While there's still a month left before the final votes are tallied, Microsoft's bid to gain ISO standards approval for its Office Open XML OOXML document format is anything but guaranteed. Friday February 29 marked the end of a week-long ballot-resolution meeting in Geneva, where participants debated...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., ISO, Microsoft Corp., Computerworld, OOXML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-01

"Back that truck up"

The quotation is from Tim Taylor, star of TV's long defunct sitcom: Glimpses of Heidi, but suits my purpose here, which is to discuss our tendency to remember things in terms of what's important to us rather in terms of what really happened. A big...

Tags: Wintel, Idea, Microprocessor, IBM Corp., Quotation, Revisionism, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-12-21

Wide finder redux

Here's a comment from frequent contributor Erik Engbrecht: Until Tim Bray started his Widefinder discussions I was a big believer in Coolthreads. The principles behind the technology just make sense. But then I noticed how badly my Intel based laptop beat the...

Tags: Job, T2, T5120, Network Technology, Networking, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-12-20

Sun needs an answer to iPhone ASAP, lest Java wither on the vine

Why isn't Sun giving away iPhones at customer schmoozes? They need their own Java complement ASAP, that's why. A lot of times when you go to a Sun Microsystems schmooze event, they larder the request for your attendance with the chance to win an iPod-this or an...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Sun Microsystems Inc., Problem, Apple Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Programming Languages, Java, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-11

Microsoft awarded patent for watermarking form of DRM. But can it really work?

According to InfoWorld: Microsoft has won a patent for a digital-watermarking technology that could be used to protect the rights of content owners even when digital music is...

Tags: Patent, Digital-rights Management, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Bray, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-09-11

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