Java ecosystem, 2017
Having appeared on the main stage at Oracle Open World for the Java One keynote this week I have some thoughts. I was introduced by Mark Cavage, VP Product Management at Oracle as “Mr Java Renaissance.” Absurd obviously, but I would accept that RedMonk has done a better job of understanding Java past, present, and […]
Java’s late flowering, Solaris cut back to roots.
At the risk of starting from the beginning, which is somewhat unfashionable these days in these days of Netflix box sets with complex chronologies, I am going to start at the beginning. Java, the language, was introduced on May 23, 1995, just as the Internet took off. Netscape’s initial public offering was just a couple […]
Spring Boot and the Peloton
So Spring Boot goes from strength to strength. At RedMonk we’re pretty sceptical of downloads an an indicator of technology attention or adoption – in the age of automated builds, pulling down system images, they can be rather deceptive. But there are some other metrics to consider. In looking at the GitHub landscape for Java […]
When Java shops grow up they become web companies
One of our fav. #S1P talks: @monkchips of @RedMonk on the Java renaissance & associated cultural change. Full talk: https://t.co/54P5Eq65pp pic.twitter.com/x6tAJy6wt7 — Pivotal (@pivotal) November 19, 2016 I have been invited to give a talk on the Java renaissance many times over the last few years – it remains a theme of perennial interest. Rumours […]
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 […]
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 […]
