
VMware CEO: Django, Rails, Open Frameworks, Packaged Apps as Commodity and The New KingMakers.
I was in Copenhagen last week for VMworld Europe 2010. Monday was an analyst briefing so I wasn’t particularly surprised when VMware CEO Paul Maritz spoke at length about his strategy to attract developers to VMware as a platform. After all most analysts are curious about what happens next. But seeing Maritz give the same […]

Who is Your Chief Content Officer?
Who do you see when you look around the table at your fresh young startup? The usual suspects are likely all there. A set of executives that likely includes a CEO, a VP of Engineering or Products, a VP of Marketing and / or a VP of Sales (not all startups have both, but most […]

Cloud Content Management to Challenge ECM?
A phrase that instantly intrigued me when I had a pre-brief of Box.net’s new announcement this week (all Techmeme coverage) was the vendor’s newly coined notion of ‘cloud content management.’ VP of marketing Jen Grant (who I’ve interviewed previously here in a podcast) explained that Box is using the term to denote the application of […]
Event Report: Lotusphere 10 Launches IBM Into New Era
(Pictures For Now, More Analysis Later)

EuroCloud UK and a lesson in SaaS marketing
In the midst of a busy schedule the past couple of weeks I’ve been preparing for the launch meeting in London of EuroCloud UK, the British instance of the Europe-wide SaaS and cloud industry community network that was first unveiled last month. Any readers from UK SaaS or cloud ventures who will be in London […]