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By James Governor on March 12, 2010
One of the great unsolved Java problems is a lack of modularity. OSGi is a technology designed to solve the problem. Wikipedia says:
The OSGi framework is a module system and service platform for the Java programming language that implements a complete and dynamic component model, something that does not exist in standalone Java/VM [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged dependency management, Eclipse, ibm, JPA, Open source, OSGi, Paremus
By James Governor on February 19, 2010
Everyone else seems to have gone with the Sunset, so I figured why not call out Sunrise instead… while some Sun technology is going to get nuked, and some people too, there are still plenty of solid assets to consider when parsing what Oracle is going to do.
One advantage of being a couple of days [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Dell, EMC, hp, ibm, Open source, oracle, Sun, Sun Microsystems
By James Governor on February 18, 2010
I attended a briefing last week in London with Rod Adkins, SVP IBM Systems and Technology Group, and Robert LeBlanc, who runs IBM’s middleware business. The subject at hand was the new POWER7 chip.
If you’re not a hardcore IBM server customer you’ve possibly never heard of POWER. It runs IBM’s mainframes, Unix boxes and the [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged DB2, Dell, DSS, Hewlett-Packard, ibm, Larry Ellison, OLTP, oracle, POWER 7, STG, Sun Microsystems, SWG, System i
By James Governor on February 11, 2010
Sunday night about 7pm I checked my phone and the chatter was already in full effect – SAP CEO Leo Apotheker had agreed to leave the company. The hardest working man in the analyst business, Ray Wang, already had first take post online a couple of hours later. Ray is awesome, but I am sure [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Hasso Plattner, Léo Apotheker, leogone, sap, Sustainability
By James Governor on February 5, 2010
I read the Financial Times most days. Over the last 18 months or so the news has been mostly bad, so I have to say today’s tech digest made for very pleasant reading. You don’t need a sophisticated sentiment analysis engine to see a trend here….
Lenovo profiting from recovery
Chinese PC maker Lenovo reports [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged apple, economy, Facebook, Financial Times, Nokia, recession, recovery, Samsung Electronics, Smartphone, Sony
By James Governor on February 4, 2010
Stephen did his usual excellent job of explaining the the VMware Zimbra acquisition with a Q&A. Seriously – read the analysis. I already fed some of my thoughts into his post, but there are a couple of other things I wanted to mention.
Zimbra’s awesomesauce
Zimbra remains probably the single best implementation I have seen of real [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged Cloud, collaboration, EMC, Groovy, Java, JEE, Microsoft Exchange, Open source, Spring, SpringSource, VMware, Yahoo, zimbra, Zimlets
By James Governor on January 18, 2010
I am here at Lotusphere 2010 in Orlando, sitting in the press room. John Fontana from Network World just walked in and and asked me what I thought of the event so far. My reply:
“Well I am not saying Lotus has all its ducks in a row, but at least it has plenty of them [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged Cloud, gmail, ibm, IBM Research, Lotus, LotusLive, Lotusphere, panasonic
By James Governor on January 13, 2010
The idea of a cloud drive or folder in the sky is obviously a good one. We’ve been waiting for how long for the fabled gDrive? As a Google Enterprise customer I am glad to know I can now upload any kind of file, up to 250MB, into my account. Very handy. But the use [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged android, Cloud, Cloud Computing, docs, gdrive, google, Google Docs, iPhone, Office, online storage, Storage, synchronization
By James Governor on January 6, 2010
CIOs and IT managers today have far more options to get independent IT analysis on tech trends than they ever did. The simple fact is, industry analysts are competing with the Internet, competing with Google, for relevancy.
Gartner is doing a fine job, keeping the street happy with deals, while building its talent base with these [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged AR, Burton, gartner, redmonk
