Salvatore Genovese

Today I received my free registration coupon code for the upcoming Virtualization Conference & Expo, June 23-24, 2008, in New York City.  I have a limited number of VIP tickets which can be obtained here. Enter the coupon code: speakerguestVIP (case sensitive) to redeem your pass ... (more)

(May 4, 2008) - 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 doll... (more)

(April 4, 2008) - Friday morning a 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 an... (more)

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 ... (more)

Everex, whose $199 gOS-based gPC desktop sold out at Wal-Mart in record time late last year, has now introduced a gOS-based 2lb ultra-mobile laptop that it plans to sell at Wal-Mart for $399 starting January 25. Dubbed the CloudBook, the thing uses a 1.2GHz VIA C7 processor and pro... (more)

(November 28, 2007) - My Google News alert on Virtualization just crossed my Outlook shadows on my laptop screen. Here is a news release that attracted my attention, and I will explain why. The following is the first paragraph of the news: "1105 Media has launched the Virtualizat... (more)

Canoo announced a new release of its Java library for Rich Internet Applications (RIA), UltraLightClient (ULC). This new 6.2 version offers addons to test UltraLightClient-based applications more easily. AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, March 18-20, 2008, in New York City will provide... (more)

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 th... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 aga... (more)

JBoss founder and former CEO Marc Fleury, the guy who couldn't get on with Red Hat after it acquired JBoss for $350 million, has joined the advisory board of Appcelerator Inc, an Atlanta start-up doing open source software for cross-platform SOA-ready rapid rich Internet applicat... (more)

It is time to switch our analysis to an army of virtualization vendors in 2008 which will be acquied during the next 12 months. Sorry IONA and  BEA, you lost your chances once and forever in the SOA newly wed game. (April 28, 2007) - On a sunny Saturday afternoon here in Sydney, ... (more)

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 divers... (more)

Sauers Technologies has released a public beta of its BundleWorks product. BundleWorks provides a set of tools to simplify and automate the management of applications throughout the development life cycle from building to testing to deployment to maintenance. For building appli... (more)

Sun Microsystems announced availability and pricing details for the Sun xVM Ops Center, a highly scalable datacenter automation tool for complete management of heterogeneous global IT environments. As part of the company's commitment to the open source community, Sun will also re... (more)

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Keynote Competitive Research released the first customer experience and technical performance study examining leading news Web sites. The study contains two parts: an in-depth examination of the online customer experience and an in-depth examination of technical quality or “s... (more)

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 differ... (more)

Friday, October 12, 2007 Dear Members of the BEA Systems Board of Directors: As discussed with your management team, Oracle remains available to discuss and complete a transaction quickly and efficiently. We believe that it is important to clarify the sequence of activities that h... (more)

James Hamilton's Blog After hearing about Oracle's offer to to buy BEA for $6.6 billion, I was talking about it with a friend of mine and he had some interesting things to say: "It's basically a massive change to the whole way that middleware is going to be done. Oracle is now th... (more)