Java SE 6 Update 10 - I've talked with several reporters today on Update 10. The key thing here is fixing and improving the bad reputation that client-side Java has, laying the necessary foundation for JavaFX to be competitive. There's nothing too interesting about foundations, but the house they build on-top should be fun to watch. Also, check out the interview with Danny Coward I did on the topic.
I end up giving a mini-strategy overview for RIA adoption for Adobe, Sun, and Microsoft. You can expect Microsoft and Sun to sell to their existing developer pools, as Microsoft's Scott Guthrie spoke to at AJAXWorld. Adobe, on the other hand, must go after everyone: .Net, Java, PHP, "open web," hell, why not green screen?
I talked with Cassatt last week and give a brief overview of their automation platform. Their "shut down un-utilized servers to save energy" is a good example of selling water instead of dental-floss. Check out the capacity management piece by Ken Oestreich that I mentioned.
Also, Rogue Wave has a multi-core, parallel processing framework called Hydra that I talked with them about last week.
While I didn't get to very many sessions at last week's InnoTech here in Austin, I did go to one with an old friend of mine, Mumboe's Scott Diedrick, on rails, which was interesting, if only to get the current explanations of why rails is nice.
Novell announced their plans to buy Managed Objects yesterday. I give a re-cap of my write-up: Novell looks to be building out it's IT Management portfolio, and I'd expect them to buy more.
Mono 2.0 - I've gotten several press inquires about Mono 2.0. It's an interesting language because you've got multi-platform support on both developer and deployment side with C#. People like MindTouch use this, and we'll see how Moonlight helps out with Silverlight in the RIA-wars.
Follow-up on the Splunk customer numbers of yesterday: Splunk confirms that, yes, it is 750 paying customers and they have 250,000 downloads/users of the free stuff as well.
Today's debriefing catches up on the debriefing items from the past few (work) days. My excuse: I was busy at the Adobe MAX judging event in San Jose last week.
Here are the items covered:
Everyone has Windows in the cloud: Amazon, Microsoft, and 3Tera. As I've said before, the short-term deployments to look for are Exchange and SharePoint instance.
Spring Source released dm Server, their application server based on OSGi. I mentioned the general desire for application server simplicity last week, and here's the release.
This reminds me of a post on virtualization.info about the gloom and doom tone-change in virtualization coverage of late. No longer is virtualization the cure to polio, but it causes problems that need more software to help out - virtualization management! While I agree with this general sentiment, it's also clear that "create a mess, sell cleaning up the mess" marketing messaging of IT management companies is working. Congrats to them!
Next, I mention IBM's cloud announcements today, mostly centered around Blue Cloud (the SaaS-offered document/IM collaborative site) but also nuance on their partner programs. (Ashlee Vance and his old friends at The Register> have good write-ups.)
Pulling from a recent press release from Splunk, I note that Splunk now says it has 750 customers, with 60 in EMEA. Also, I point out how weird it is that "EMEA" is considered a single marketing entity.
And then, finally, finally, we hear the rest of the little talk I had with Matt Ray, of Zenoss, last week. This time, on the python unconference he went to last weekend and the python scene in Austin.
Disclosure: IBM, Microsoft, BMC, Zenoss, Splunk, SpringSource, and Sun are clients. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.
Today's debriefing podcast (download here or subscribe to the feed) goes over a couple briefings I had - with PERFMAN and Etelos - some interesting news items from Adobe and Microsoft-land I came across, the recent Apple iPhone App Store hubbub (and get off on a long tear about open source and making money off software), and closes out with a short note on the cloud computing book I'm looking to start-up with the cloud to everyone's silver-lining.
Since I haven't had the chance to blog in text form much of late, I thought I'd try a different medium: a short audio update. Download it directly here; you should also be able to subscribe to this blog's feed to download it as a podcast. In this "Debriefing" I primarily go over the conversations I had today with NetQoS, PacketTrap, and SpringSource. I also mention the rise in Surgient spottings I've been having of late.
Tell me if you like this format or think it's a waste of time.
