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On Changing horses: Open Source Licenses, Foundations and The Software Freedom Conservancy

On Changing horses: Open Source Licenses, Foundations and The Software Freedom Conservancy

By James Governor on May 9, 2011

I was lucky enough to chat to Jason Huggins earlier last week, getting an update on Saucelabs, the commercial arm of (his) Selenium Project [related post here]. Needless to say the conversation ranged far and wide. One issue was open source foundation choices. Given the decision to “go commercial” and build a business around Selenium, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Advocacy, Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, microsoft, opensource, redmonk, Saucelabs, Software Freedom Conservancy | 1 Response

On code, purpose, meaning and poetry at IBM Impact

On code, purpose, meaning and poetry at IBM Impact

By James Governor on April 19, 2011

These days IBM’s Impact Conference is as much about sales as education, but one of the things it sells is ideas, and ideas can change the world. The first and last main tent keynotes contained two of the best, most-inspiring speeches I have ever seen in any context. TED-class. The two talks that really nailed […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged ibm, ibmimpact, Lombardi Software, Lotus, microsoft, MIX, redmonk

Your very own OpenStack Cloud – Quick Analysis

Your very own OpenStack Cloud – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on March 8, 2011

Rackspace announces a support plan for OpenStack, while Dell, Rackspace, and Opscode announce an OpenStack installer for quick cloud building.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Chef, Cloud, Cloud Builders, Cloud Computing, Dell, Open source, OpenStack, OpsCode, Private Cloud, Quick Analysis, Rackspace, redmonk, support, Systems Management, The New Thing

I, for one, welcome our new Android forking overlords

I, for one, welcome our new Android forking overlords

By James Governor on January 27, 2011

At RedMonk we don’t think forking is a bad thing. On the contrary it enables innovation through fast iteration and cross fertlisation of technology and ideas. Forking allows for a biological metaphor for systems design. As Stephen explains: Bacteria – viruses too – evolve more quickly than do humans. If you’re reading this, that should […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged android, apple, Dell, Froyo, Gingerbread, google, Honeycomb, iOS, iPad, mobile development, redmonk, Streak, Tablets

Lotus Gears Up To Embrace The Web, Rebuild its Developer Story, pwn Social Business

Lotus Gears Up To Embrace The Web, Rebuild its Developer Story, pwn Social Business

By James Governor on January 21, 2011

I was at Connect before Christmas, the annual Software Group meetup for industry analysts that follow IBM. See some coverage here by Coté. IBM’s Software portfolio is insanely big these days, so its hard to know where to start. But some interesting things are afoot. As Cote says: “When it comes to pulling in innovation […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged atom, CMIS, Enterprise 2.0, HTML5, ibm, IBM Lotus Connections, Lotus, Lotus Notes, OAuth, RADD, redmonk, Salesforce Chatter, Websphere | 1 Response

2010 Predictions: How’d I Do?

2010 Predictions: How’d I Do?

By James Governor on January 9, 2011

My partner in crime Stephen looked back at how he did with his predictions for last year, so I thought I better do the same. Ubiquitous analytics. In 2010 business intelligence will become less about the power user, and more about democratised access to the ad hoc query. In memory databases will underpin the trend. […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged 2010 predictions, redmonk

Software CEOs talking fluent dork: its the developers, stupid. New Kingmakers

Software CEOs talking fluent dork: its the developers, stupid. New Kingmakers

By James Governor on December 9, 2010

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. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged developers, Django, heroku, Marc Benioff, Paul Maritz, redmonk, Ruby on Rails, salesforce.com, VMware | 1 Response

The iPad: Nice Piece of Glass! Here comes HTML5

The iPad: Nice Piece of Glass! Here comes HTML5

By James Governor on November 24, 2010

Tweet If you have followed RedMonk for any time you’ll know that we are strong advocates for open source and open standards. Open ecosystems create more economic and innovation opportunities than closed systems. So far, so Adam Smith. Well over the last couple of years two companies in particular have challenged some of our basic […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged adobe, apple, dell streak, google, HTML, HTML5, iPad, microsoft, news, redmonk, Ziet

AccelOps in Action at the Austin Radiological Association – Overview and use of AccelOps integrated data center and cloud service monitoring platform from an end user perspective

AccelOps in Action at the Austin Radiological Association – Overview and use of AccelOps integrated data center and cloud service monitoring platform from an end user perspective

By Michael Coté on November 18, 2010

I recently visited with Todd Thomas and Geoff Christy at the Austin Radiological Association to see their instance of AccelOps in action. Todd and Geoff explain how they came about to switch over to AccelOps in the first interview section, then shows us an extensive demo of how they’re using AccelOps. Seeing this kind of […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged AccelOps, austin, Austin Radiological Association, CMDB, demo, Geoff Christy, interview, IT Management, IT Management Podcast, monitoring, redmonk, RedMonkTV, Systems Management, Tag, Todd Thomas, transcripts

IBM Systems and Technology Group: Redesigning for Developers

IBM Systems and Technology Group: Redesigning for Developers

By James Governor on November 18, 2010

I just spent a couple of days with IBM in Rye Brook, NY, and I have to admit, I came away impressed. I should also mention that I landed quite a nice contract while I was there, so take that into account when reading this piece. Why does IBM STG want to work with RedMonk, […]

Posted in Business | Tagged design, ibm, redmonk, STG, STGEVENT2010, Streetline | 1 Response

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