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Latest Articles from Salvatore Genovese
By Salvatore Genovese as: Al Aghili (Managed Methods), Alan Chhabra (Egenera), Andi Mann (Enterprise Management Associates), Andrew Conte (APC), Andy Astor (EnterpriseDB), Ariel Cohen (Xsigo Systems), Bill O'Conell (IBM), Bob Lozano (Appistry), Bob Quinn (3Leaf Systems), Brian Martin (IBM), Carlo Innocenti ... Jun. 18, 2008 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,942 | By Salvatore Genovese Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo received stupid advice from their investment bank advisers and blew their chance to close the deal with Microsoft as of this Sunday morning. Neither Yang nor Filo are experts on how to sell a company in a multi-billion dollar deal. They have re... Jun. 4, 2008 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 10,015 Replies: 1 | By Salvatore Genovese  Friday morning the local Fox television station in New York City broke the news - Apple was suing New York City. Six out of 100 of their viewers thought Apple had the right to sue the City, but 94 out of 100 viewers are now calling for New Yorkers to drop Apple and its products, includ... May. 27, 2008 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 26,096 Replies: 2 | By Salvatore Genovese  This man, whose name is Keith Ward, should be fired from his job for basic incompetence as the editor of a magazine, and here's why. He posts a blog entry on May 6, 2008, in which he writes: 'Virtualization Journal, coming in second, declares itself the winner,' and he continues 'I hav... May. 22, 2008 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 7,270 | By Salvatore Genovese  The Ubuntu Linux-based gOS operating system from Good OS LLC (www.thinkgos.com) includes so many Google applications like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google News Google Maps and YouTube that it's often referred to as the Google operating system. It also includes Firefox, Skype... May. 7, 2008 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 38,648 Replies: 10 | By Salvatore Genovese  So, the geniuses in Chatsworth, California, who picked up the remains of Fawcette Technical Publications from the bank in Virginia, and the remains of 101 Communications, another platform play that went seriously south, sat down in a room this afternoon and said 'What is SYS-CON up to ... May. 7, 2008 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 10,743 | By Salvatore Genovese AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, March 18-20, 2008, in New York City will provide an overview of Canoo's RIA technology as compared to its other European competitors. Upcoming AJAXWorld Conference is demonstrating a stronger interest and participation from delegates around Europe. Canoo an... Feb. 5, 2008 08:30 AM EST Reads: 6,095 Replies: 1 | By Salvatore Genovese Since we last looked at the SOA marketplace this past April, BEA has finally found its match, in spite of their fearless leader and leftover CEO. After the ORACLE / BEA news we now read rumors that TIBCO may be the next target; perhaps Microsoft should be taking a good look at them so ... Jan. 18, 2008 07:30 PM EST Reads: 8,945 Replies: 1 | By Salvatore Genovese  As developers continue to migrate to NetBeans from other IDEs, the NetBeans community has experienced tremendous growth. To date there have been more than 16 million downloads and a 300% increase in email list subscribers during the past three years, and now NetBeans 6.0 has been relea... Jan. 18, 2008 09:15 AM EST Reads: 17,904 Replies: 1 | By Salvatore Genovese Trolltech, Acrodea, ETRI, Huawei and Purple Labs have joined the LiMo Foundation started a year ago by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone to deliver a mobile Linux platform. Said platform would perforce have to compete against t... Jan. 12, 2008 01:30 PM EST Reads: 9,598 | By Salvatore Genovese  Appcelerator CEO Jeff Haynie is quoted as saying about Fleury, 'We believe the knowledge he developed building JBoss, to the point where it quickly became a true challenger to much larger competitors and a substantial industry force, will be invaluable to Appcelerator as we look to ach... Jan. 6, 2008 12:00 PM EST Reads: 26,031 Replies: 1 | By Salvatore Genovese Any software company headquartered in the United States whose 'About' paragraph contains the three magic letters 'S,' 'O,' and 'A' is either currently negotiating the terms of a deal or getting ready to walk pretty on the auction block to meet their happy highest bidder. I don't believ... Jan. 6, 2008 08:30 AM EST Reads: 35,592 | By Salvatore Genovese Red Hat is losing market share to VMware according to Wall Street analyst Katherine Egbert of Jefferies & Co, who downgraded Red Hat's stock Monday. She says Linux isn't needed to replace Unix, that Windows and VMware are more prevalent, and that Red Hat's going to have to diversify aw... Dec. 26, 2007 06:45 AM EST Reads: 9,093 | By Salvatore Genovese  For building applications, BundleWorks includes ant tasks and command line tools to allow developers to build standard bundles for both custom and third-party applications. For testing, BundleWorks allows a developer to create and manage multiple environments to test multiple versions ... Dec. 5, 2007 01:30 PM EST Reads: 25,442 Replies: 1 | By Salvatore Genovese A critical part of Sun's virtualization portfolio, Sun xVM Ops Center reduces datacenter management complexity by combining a range of lifecycle management functionality into an all-in-one tool. Sun xVM Ops Center helps simplify discovery, monitoring, operating system provisioning, com... Dec. 4, 2007 11:15 AM EST Reads: 13,013 Replies: 1 | By Salvatore Genovese Why are you opening private message directed to someone else? This is a private message not directed or intended for you. As I'm a long time member of the HR community - shame on you! Eileen Sirrell Dec. 4, 2007 10:15 AM EST Reads: 7,966 | By Salvatore Genovese The study contains two parts: an in-depth examination of the online customer experience and an in-depth examination of technical quality or 'service levels' (site responsiveness and site reliability) of the leading news Web sites including AOL News, CNN, FOX News, Google News, MSNBC, U... Dec. 2, 2007 03:45 PM EST Reads: 16,459 Replies: 1 | By Salvatore Genovese Keynote Competitive Research announced Europe's first performance index for the mobile Web. The Keynote Europe Mobile Index is a weekly performance ranking of 10 popular European mobile sites compiled from more than 26,000 measurements taken on multiple carriers from different geograph... Nov. 21, 2007 09:00 AM EST Reads: 10,483 | By Salvatore Genovese  Here are my thoughts on this. I was expecting Alfred - who is known to be an arrogant and incompetent CEO - to run away from Larry as fast as he could. But this movie usually ends as follows. First, history repeats itself. By that I mean that Alfred should remember Larry's PeopleSoft h... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 27,130 | By Salvatore Genovese Oracle owns PeopleSoft and JD Edwards; they own SleepyCat; they own BEA; and of course they have their own enterprise database. This means they have the stack from top to bottom, with the exception of an operating system. They can take the CRM and banking and insurance and end-user app... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 24,798 | By Salvatore Genovese I think Larry should just buy Red Hat for cash and no questions asked. Forget BEA and forget TIBCO. Larry should take a week off after this week's OracleWorld and get back to his office in his yacht, and type up his next press release (which is saved in his laptop as a form letter anyw... Nov. 13, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 12,529 Replies: 3 | By Salvatore Genovese  WSO2, the open source SOA company, announced at the SOA World Conference & Expo, that it has significantly extended the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to support the heterogeneous, enterprise-scale demands of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The WSO2 ESB 1.5 adds the ability t... Nov. 12, 2007 06:45 PM EST Reads: 14,063 | By Salvatore Genovese  Two Roads focuses on partnering with Information Technology to control and streamline the process of securing candidates, explains Two Roads' Ron Terry. 'We are able to accomplish this by working with the hiring managers to assess skills and company culture, which helps us to secure ac... Nov. 11, 2007 01:45 PM EST Reads: 7,548 Replies: 1 | By Salvatore Genovese Oracle OpenWorld will open tomorrow in San Francisco with 45,000 people in attendance, a far bigger crowd even than CA's New Orleans cruise ship hotel accommodation days. I saw the photo below in my friend Ian Thain's blog entry from this afternoon. The city says they closed off one of... Nov. 11, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 9,070 Replies: 1 | By Salvatore Genovese Red Hat, which has made its fortune displacing Solaris, is now going to collaborate with Sun to advance open source Java, which Red Hat is particularly partial to given its JBoss investment. This is the third time this year that Sun has laid down with one of its enemies. It also cut d... Nov. 9, 2007 09:30 AM EST Reads: 18,642 Replies: 1 | By Salvatore Genovese WaveMaker, formerly known as ActiveGrid, has announced a new corporate brand and product strategy that will address the growing demand for technology that simplifies the assembly of Web applications, while meeting the architectural, security and governance policies of CIOs. WaveMaker w... Nov. 7, 2007 08:15 PM EST Reads: 14,301 | By Salvatore Genovese Dave Wolf, vice president, Cynergy stated, 'With the opening of our new Taipei office, we are building on the continued demand for Cynergy designed and developed rich Internet applications, as well as expanding our global presence. Business applications users have come to expect the sa... Nov. 7, 2007 05:45 PM EST Reads: 12,162 Replies: 1 | By Salvatore Genovese XAware has announced the creation of an open source project and the availability of XAware 5, open source data integration software that increases the productivity of development teams. XAware transcends existing data integration offerings with its ability to 'service-enable' data for ... Nov. 7, 2007 03:45 PM EST Reads: 9,576 | By Salvatore Genovese  Experts at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania have been considering the future of Web apps vs desktop apps. While they predict that any gap between web and desktop software will narrow in the future, they note that one wild card is how well hybrid webtop/desktop appli... Nov. 7, 2007 10:30 AM EST Reads: 24,449 | By Salvatore Genovese Genuitec, provider of the MyEclipse integrated development environment and a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation, announced a new partnership with ICEsoft Technologies. ICEsoft is the creator and provider of ICEfaces, an open source framework for simplified development of AJAX-en... Nov. 7, 2007 09:45 AM EST Reads: 11,045 | By Salvatore Genovese I personally don't know Mark Taber. It looks like he is an IBM'er with an impressive background. I did, however, meet Fred 12 years ago, at the first Powersoft User Conference in Orlando while he had his LexiBridge company. Those were the days with Mitchell Kertzman, David Litwack and ... Oct. 12, 2007 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 10,819 | By Salvatore Genovese There was another interesting announcement from Microsoft yesterday about Astoria Web Services. Actually I've seen a lot of press around AJAXWorld this year, but the buzz on the expo floor is 'Whatever happened to Adobe?' One attendee I was talking to last night at the opening receptio... Sep. 26, 2007 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,079 | By Salvatore Genovese  I will be attending the Ajax World Conference next week in Santa Clara. I will also be at the opening reception on Monday and the conference party on Tuesday. Over the weekend Jesse Liberty blogged about this as well 'If you are going to be at AJAXWorld, look for me on Twitter, and let... Sep. 20, 2007 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 34,774 Replies: 1 | By Salvatore Genovese Since its inception a few years ago as the 'Oracle-compatible database company' EnterpriseDB is still burning cash with no publicly shared revenue or profitability figures. When you compare the birth and the toddler years of EnterpriseDB with, let's say, Marc Fleurys' JBoss, it does no... Aug. 7, 2007 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,863 | By Salvatore Genovese Where would YOU go to get your news? Google News? MSN News? Or Yahoo! News? I think the answer is clear (it's Google), and this reflects the success and failure of these three players. And I don't want to hear from the MSN News people that they almost got it right, but they lost Dr. Ka... Apr. 29, 2007 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 16,036 | By Salvatore Genovese From what I saw this morning, CNBC's morning show Squawk Box turned its format into a light-weight show overnight. It looks like the new and expanded Squawk Box time slot is from 6 AM to 10 AM. The show used to start at 7 AM with Mark Haines, Joe Kernen, David Faber, and Becky Quick (I... Dec. 19, 2005 11:45 AM EST Reads: 16,203 |
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Salvatore Genovese is a Cloud Computing consultant and an i-technology blogger based in Rome, Italy. He occasionally blogs about SOA, start-ups, mergers and acquisitions, open source and bleeding-edge technologies, companies, and personalities. Sal can be reached at hamilton(at)sys-con.com.
