Consolidation in the Social Software Market Continues: VMware Acquires SocialCast
I have to admit that Tuesday’s announcement from VMware was a bit of a head scratcher for me, at least at first. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very familiar with SocialCast and have written several times that I think highly of the product and the team, as presumably SocialCast customers like Avaya, Humana, Nokia, Phillips [...]
VMWare Cloud Foundry – Quick Analysis and Press Pass
“We believe the current [platform clouds, such as Azure and App Engine] are incomplete,” [VMware senior director of cloud and application services Jerry] Chen says. “There is no one platform that is multi-cloud – private and public – and no one cloud is architected, out of the gate, to be extensible to many different frameworks [...]
PaaS choices today
In the light of Salesforce.com’s swathe of announcements at Dreamforce last week and other recent developments, it’s a good time to take stock of the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) landscape. What are the choices now available to developers and business people looking to build applications on a ready-to-run cloud platform? As part of this review, I’ll report [...]
VMware CEO: Django, Rails, Open Frameworks, Packaged Apps as Commodity and The New KingMakers.
I was in Copenhagen last week for VMworld Europe 2010. Monday was an analyst briefing so I wasn’t particularly surprised when VMware CEO Paul Maritz spoke at length about his strategy to attract developers to VMware as a platform. After all most analysts are curious about what happens next. But seeing Maritz give the same [...]
SpringOne 2010 – the shody trip-report – Quick Analysis
Earlier this week, I was at VMWare’s SpringOne conference, covering announcements and new work from their SpringSource division. They launched an integrating cloud-based software development suite of tools, several technology partnerships with Google, and started to outline new integration needs from the social, mobile, and database world.
VMforce.com redefines the PaaS landscape
Salesforce.com, creator of the archetypal proprietary cloud platform, today seized the initiative and redrew the entire PaaS landscape around open-source software stacks.
VMforce: Why? What? How?
There are a few questions every CIO, developer and business user will ask about VMForce: What is VMforce? Why does it matter to me? How will it work? Will it help me build new kinds of apps that are social and mobile? In simple terms, VMforce service will allow every Java developer to write applications [...]
VMware’s SpringSource Redis and Rabbit acquisitions: A Database Play is Emerging
The VMware Q1 financials call had some interesting futures stuff, worth quoting CEO Paul Maritz in full
This is Paul. I would be happy if you had to come around and have a cup of coffee with me and we could discuss that for several hours. The very, very short answer to your question is that [...]
SpringSource buys Rabbit For World Made of Messages
Its 25 past 6 on a Friday afternoon and very much beer o’clock, but I wanted to note one of the most exciting acquisitions I have seen in a while. After all its not every day that an enterprise player like VMware SpringSource buys a technology that my hacker friends like to use on a [...]
VMware Zimbra: Integration without Context Shift
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 [...]
