Salvatore Genovese

(November 13, 2007) - CNROnline posted a story that refers to some sort of a release put out by IONA about Oracle's bid to buy BEA. An excerpt from the story is below and the full story can be found here. In a release titled "The End of Middleware as You Know It!", Iona said: "O... (more)

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 abi... (more)

I arrived in San Francisco last night and this morning I did my early bird registration for the SOA World Conference & Expo, which is taking place at the Hyatt Hotel, on Monday and Tuesday this week. I found a mini "Two Roads" dartboard in my delegate goodie bag, a cool little t... (more)

(November 11, 2007) - 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... (more)

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 ... (more)

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. WaveM... (more)

Cynergy Systems, a leading rich Internet application (RIA) design and development company announced the opening of its newest office in Taipei, Taiwan. In the past four months, the company has expanded nationally and internationally, with new offices in Rochester, N.Y., and Sydne... (more)

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 enabl... (more)

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, one wild card is how well hybrid webtop/desktop applications w... (more)

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 A... (more)

FiveRuns Corporation, a pioneer of monitoring products for Ruby on Rails, described by some as the new Java, has gotten $6.2 million in funding from Austin Ventures. The money is earmarked for acceleration product development, sales and marketing and the company's partnership ef... (more)

James Hamilton's Blog This evening I was browsing through the Active Endpoints Website. I clicked on the "executive team" link and realized that this company has unbelievable talent and experience in their leadership! I personally don't know Mark Taber. It looks like he is an IBM'e... (more)

James Hamilton's Blog Today is my second day at the AJAXWorld conference in Santa Clara, California. Compared to last year, the expo floor seems to have more than doubled with new sponsors and exhibitors displaying their latest rich Web technologies.  There have also been a lot o... (more)

James Hamilton's Blog 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, loo... (more)

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. New Jersey-based company announced today the availability of GridSQL for EnterpriseDB Advanced Server. The... (more)

I have been monitoring the news stories published by the various properties of SYS-CON Media (the publisher of SEO/SEM Journal, to name just one). I have also been following where on the Internet these stories appear, for a case study. Based on the most current 30-day time period... (more)

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 ... (more)