New Era At RedMonk: Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s Donnie!
So today is Donnie Berkholz‘ first day as a RedMonk employee. When we started on the search to hire an analyst with deep analytics skills a few months back I had no idea we’d find somebody so good. We had plenty of outstanding candidates throw their hats in the ring, but Donnie has the skillset [...]
SAP Mentors: The New Kingmakers. On Developer Relations, Community Management and Co-Innovation
Its always nice to see others building on your ideas, so it was cool to see some folks from the SAP Mentor community take up the gauntlet. At RedMonk we like to say developers are the new kingmakers, because of the increasing influence they wield on business innovation, from the bottom up. Of course some [...]
Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce Forces its Way Onto The Top Table, Gets Big to Win Ugly
“Apps companies get acquired, and platform companies get acquired. To be a strategic supplier, with off the shelf solutions, and custom apps, you need to offer both.” So said Byron Sebastian, general manager at Heroku and Salesforce.com SVP of Platform at Dreamforce last week. Many of my peers have already posted about the event, so [...]
RedMonk is Hiring: Data Scientists/Griots Please Apply
RedMonk is hiring. RedMonk 1.0 was all about voice, and we certainly owned that, operating at a scale far exceeding our notional size. but with Coté leaving its a chance to recalibrate – RedMonk 2.0 will be about making the voice richer and more authoritative with data. Doing our day jobs has meant than Stephen and I have probably [...]
Leaving RedMonk
As Stephen posted earlier this afternoon, I’ll be leaving RedMonk at the end of next week. Working with RedMonk has been easily the best job I’ve had: the trust and mentoring James and Stephen have given me over the years has been more than I could have imagined, and the actual work has been great. [...]
On Changing horses: Open Source Licenses, Foundations and The Software Freedom Conservancy
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, [...]
On code, purpose, meaning and poetry at IBM Impact
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 [...]
Your very own OpenStack Cloud – Quick Analysis
Rackspace announces a support plan for OpenStack, while Dell, Rackspace, and Opscode announce an OpenStack installer for quick cloud building.
I, for one, welcome our new Android forking overlords
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 [...]
Lotus Gears Up To Embrace The Web, Rebuild its Developer Story, pwn Social Business
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 [...]
