James Governor
James, aka @Monkchips is co-founder of RedMonk, the open source analyst firm, which specialises in developer advocacy and analytics.
New at Eclipse: On Asia, Android and Agile ALM
Last week I went to Eclipsecon 2012 in Reston, Virginia. I haven’t been to the event for a couple of years so it was great to catch up with so many friends and clients, and take the pulse of the ecosystem. So what struck me about the State of the Eclipse Nation in 2012? Firstly […]
How Tivoli Acquired IBM. On Pulse 2012 and Cultural Change for Smarter Computing.
Tweet I couldn’t make it to Pulse 2012 this year, but we sent Tom and Donnie over to check out what IBM Tivoli has to say about “Optimising The World’s Infrastructure”. IBM streamed the keynotes so I was able to keep abreast of some of the content, and it seems like IBM Software is finally […]
Internet of Thingworks, bringing industrial into the mix
I have been writing and consulting about the Internet of Things since 1999, when I helped Jonathan Eunice create the “Pervasive Automation” practice at Illuminata. Billions of dollars have poured into the space since then, but we still haven’t seen the big transformation many of us have expected for a long time. But increasingly it […]
What if IBM Software Got Simple?
Last month I attended IBM’s 10th Annual [Steve] Mills event, when industry analysts converge to hear what Software Group has been up to, and where its going. There is always a ton of content, which makes it hard to summarize, so I won’t even try. But there are a couple of key narratives I want […]
RedMonk Brew, The Monki Gras. What’s in Store
Come to our conference in London on February 1st. You should buy tickets here. The core idea behind curating the RedMonk Brew series of events is to examine how social is changing technology adoption, development and management. For all the manic celebration and high-fiving around products, platforms and technology in our business it seems […]
SAP and SuccessFactors- buying the past or the future, the corporation or the human?
When news first rolled in, back in December, that SAP was going to acquire SuccessFactors my first reaction was – makes sense, that brings them some much-needed scale, with 15k customers and the potential for volume economics. And of course an aggressive sales force that lives and breathes cloud deals. But then a week or […]
On Adobe’s recent repositioning
I have long argued Adobe needed to shit or get off the pot when it comes to the Enterprise business. Well – it recently decided to get off the pot. Adobe has decided that it can’t make a broad-based enterprise platform play, and has refocused instead on two core markets it feels it can perform […]
New Era At RedMonk: Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s Donnie!
So today is Donnie Berkholz‘ first day as a RedMonk employee. When we started on the search to hire an analyst with deep analytics skills a few months back I had no idea we’d find somebody so good. We had plenty of outstanding candidates throw their hats in the ring, but Donnie has the skillset […]
SAP Mentors: The New Kingmakers. On Developer Relations, Community Management and Co-Innovation
Its always nice to see others building on your ideas, so it was cool to see some folks from the SAP Mentor community take up the gauntlet. At RedMonk we like to say developers are the new kingmakers, because of the increasing influence they wield on business innovation, from the bottom up. Of course some […]
IBM grassroots seed world made of messages, internet of things. smarter planet by open source. pachube. next 10 years.
The last time I wrote about a World Made of Messages was back in 2010, when SpringSource announced it was to acquire RabbitMQ. A lot has happened in the the meantime- but things are really heating up. Logmein recently acquired Pachube, and then made the end point to end point real time web message broker […]
