Dreamforce1 – The Context of Salesforce1
You cannot deal with modern problems using antiquated systems. – Ramon Baez, Senior VP & CIO, HP @RamonfBaez, cited here by @valaafshar I have been to every Dreamforce, and I plan on going to every future one, so long as I remain of sound body and mind. It’s not just…
Utilities should open up API’s to their smart meter data
The world of utilities is changing with the roll out of smart meters. One of the biggest changes will be the wealth of data that utility companies will suddenly be flooded with. As we noted in a previous post on GreenMonk, Centrica has: 18 million residential accounts and one million business accounts. Right now they […]
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 […]
Moves: Ajaxians join walmart, HTML app stores? Canonical CTO leaves to sync Web. Centralised vs decentralised, the Great Game Goes On
Its not every day I get a post out of linkedin, but the service notified me of some really interesting career moves today – one of which could have significant implications for the entire mobile web app business. Dion Almaer just joined walmart.com as VP, Mobile Architecture. His Ajaxian partner in crime Ben Galbraith is […]
OSGi at Adobe: New School technology
Tweet [insert image here. i need to find a good one ] i am at an Adobe event in San Jose for the analyst unveiling of the company’s Customer Experience Management platform and strategy. Rather than focusing on CEM for this post, which I talked to indepth already here, I thought I would nerd out […]
Towards Effective Corporate Communications: Let Your Engineers do the Talking
One of the common urban myths about software developers and engineers is that they are poor communicators. While there are of course Aspergers types in tech, and some developers that just like to keep their heads down, just as there are in the broader population… spend ten minutes on the web and you can see […]
VMware CEO Paul Maritz – Cloud Foundry. Polyglot IT for Cloud computing. Forking is Good. VMware on Github
Tweet I have written before about Paul Maritz as the CEO of a major tech firm who agrees with RedMonk that Developers are the New Kingmakers. Well Paul came to London for an analyst briefing a couple of weeks ago, and there is more to report. The fact Maritz runs VMware, a hugely successful business […]
Developer Segmentation: Tell Me What You Think. Or How the Web “Killed” the Professional Developer
I have been giving a fair bit of thought lately to app developer segmentation. Considering how much money is poured into developer relations, its surprising just how little solid segmentation work has been done in terms of understanding developer roles or personae. I am currently working on a project for a client, and began some […]
Software CEOs talking fluent dork: its the developers, stupid. New Kingmakers
A little after I wrote up the news yesterday that salesforce.com was acquiring Heroku I came across a quote from Marc Benioff, tweeted by @timanderson “Ruby is the language of the cloud 2″ Computerweekly has a fuller version: “Ruby is the language of Cloud 2 [applications for real-time mobile and social platforms]. Developers love Ruby. […]
Salesforce acquires Heroku: Dork Move, guys.
I came into the office this morning to see a tweet that stopped me in my tracks. Salesforce.com is acquiring Heroku for $212m. In cash! Beyond the obvious bubbliciousness of the deal was a cold hard truth about the once and future kingmakers – developers. You see I didn’t first hear about Heroku from a […]
