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On Adobe’s recent repositioning

On Adobe’s recent repositioning

By James Governor on December 8, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged adobe, developer relations, flash, HTML

Flash:  Misunderstood by Adobe, Apple, the Haters, and the Press

Flash: Misunderstood by Adobe, Apple, the Haters, and the Press

By Bob Warfield on November 15, 2011

Seldom have I seen a technology so widely adopted yet so poorly understood, so polarized between haters and fanboys, and so indifferently managed by its owners.  It may have many other problems, but Flash’s worst problem is how widely it is misunderstood by key parties. Flash is Misunderstood by Adobe Adobe misunderstands not just Flash, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged adobe, apple, flash, SaaS | 6 Responses

HTML5 – A Wonder Drug

HTML5 – A Wonder Drug

By Jeff Nolan on August 20, 2011

I was reading up on some of the commentary surrounding Amazon’s release of an HTML5 reader, one of the best comes from Constellation’s Charles Brett: Amazon’s announcement of its Kindle Cloud Reader, based around HTML 5, is a wonder of irony. Apple has successfully been taking 30% of purchases made via anything bought through an […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, android, apple, flash, HTML5, iOS, mobile, mobile apps, Uncategorized

IBM’s IOD Showcases DB2, Informix, InfoSphere. Now, About Marketing….

IBM’s IOD Showcases DB2, Informix, InfoSphere. Now, About Marketing….

By Merv Adrian on November 15, 2010

It was hard to decide where to look first in Las Vegas this year at IBM’s flagship information management event. Coming as it did on the heels of a massive, sprawling Oracle Open World, it was also overwhelming, but distinguished itself immediately by its focus. Whereas Oracle has smashed together hardware systems, apps, middleware, java […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cisco, cluster, cognos, column stores, CPU, cubing services, data compression, data governance, Data mining, Database, DB2, DBMS, Exadata, flash, Guardium, ibm, Industry Trends, information management, Informix, InfoSphere, IoD, Linux, mainframe, mdm, microsoft, Omegamon, Optim, oracle, PL/SQL, power, pureSca, QMF, replication, sap, shared storage, smart analytics optimizer, smart analytics system, SQL Server, SSD, text analytics, time series, Websphere, zenterprise

What Silverlight Developers Should do After PDC 2010

What Silverlight Developers Should do After PDC 2010

By James Governor on November 12, 2010

For now. So Bob Muglia said HTML is the only true cross platform runtime. Well, no crap. What – is Silverlight going to jump through Apple’s business model hoops like a trained dog? From a governance and investment perspective it is stating the obvious to say that HTML offers a cross platform deployment story that […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged adobe, flash, microsoft, Microsoft Silverlight, silverlight, WPF

RIA is Dead – Adobe MAX 2010

RIA is Dead – Adobe MAX 2010

By Michael Coté on October 27, 2010

It seems like Adobe has finally realized the value of the web over Flash, giving them a fighting chance where once they seemed a little too “let them eat cake.”

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged adobe, AdobeMAX, AdobeMAX2010, apple, conferences, developer relations, Development Tools, flash, Java, JavaScript, marketing, mobile, multi-screen, Open source, RIA, tablet, TV

Database Benchmarks – The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Database Benchmarks – The Gift That Keeps on Giving

By Merv Adrian on October 8, 2010

Yes, I know – not everyone believes database benchmarks are useful. My position is that there is value in benchmarks’ role in helping engineers wring out bottlenecks, bugs and performance impediments in their products. In a conversation I recently had with Berni Schiefer, Distinguished Engineer and manager of the DB2 UDB Performance and Advanced Technology […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Database, database performance, DB2, DBMS, Exadata, flash, ibm, Industry Trends, microsoft, oracle, pureScale, sap, SQL Server, TPC, TPC-H

Wrapping Up the Warfield/Lucchini/Flex/Javascript Smackdown

Wrapping Up the Warfield/Lucchini/Flex/Javascript Smackdown

By Bob Warfield on September 11, 2010

Come on, admit it, we all love a good smackdown!  In response to my article about Flash coming back to the iPhone, Bill Lucchini wrote a well-reasoned rebuttal:  5 Reasons Adobe Flex is Doomed.  Here they are, paraphrased for brevity: –  Flex creates an unnatural and dilutive web user experience. –  Flex performs poorly relative to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Adobe Flex, Development Frameworks, flash, flex, google, iPhone, Multimedia, user interface

(Flash) Gordon Gecko

Android is so Open, it got Flash Back on the iPhone

By Bob Warfield on September 9, 2010

How ironic.  On the same day that MG Seigler was penning one of his characteristically snarky posts (snark is one of the ways Techcrunch pursues its Follower Economy) about how Android isn’t really open, Apple announces the return of Flash to the iWorld. Adobe’s stock price is cooking this morning as a result (I wonder […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Adobe Systems, android, App Store, apple, competition, flash, gordon gecko, greed, iPhone, opennes, platforms, RIA, Software development, strategy, user interface | 3 Responses

On HTML5 killing Flash

On HTML5 killing Flash

By Michael Coté on August 30, 2010

There’s an HTML5 killing Flash scab that keeps getting pulled off, every 1-2 months or so. In the most recent round, as I often do, I answered several question from a reporter (Howard Win in Computerworld) on the topic. The resulting story was pretty comprehensive and interesting. Here’s the questions (from Howard), and my full […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged adobe, drm, flash, HTML5, Patents, RIA, Video

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