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What if IBM Software Got Simple?

What if IBM Software Got Simple?

By James Governor on January 10, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, dev/ops, DHH, ibm, lesscode, Rails, Twitter, VMware

VMware CEO Paul Maritz – Cloud Foundry. Polyglot IT for Cloud computing. Forking is Good. VMware on Github

VMware CEO Paul Maritz – Cloud Foundry. Polyglot IT for Cloud computing. Forking is Good. VMware on Github

By James Governor on May 18, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Business | Tagged cloudfoundry, developers, erlang, node.js, PaaS, PHP, Rails, sinatra, VMware

Developer Segmentation: Tell Me What You Think. Or How the Web “Killed” the Professional Developer

Developer Segmentation: Tell Me What You Think. Or How the Web “Killed” the Professional Developer

By James Governor on April 28, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Coders, developer relations, developers, Independent software vendor, PDC, PHP, Programming, Rails, segmentation

Salesforce acquires Heroku: Dork Move, guys.

Salesforce acquires Heroku: Dork Move, guys.

By James Governor on December 8, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon Web Services, developers, heroku, joyent, node.js, Parker Harris, Rails, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, salesforce.com | 2 Responses

VMware CEO: Django, Rails, Open Frameworks, Packaged Apps as Commodity and The New KingMakers.

VMware CEO: Django, Rails, Open Frameworks, Packaged Apps as Commodity and The New KingMakers.

By James Governor on October 22, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Alfresco, Content management, Day Software, developers, Django, google, microsoft, MSDN, Nuxeo, Open source, Rails, Ruby, SpringSource, VMware

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