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Being in Brussels for Tivoli training (see waffles above), I ask John to give us his usual take on the character of the IT Management people he's encountering on the road. We both agree that the European IT Management folks he tends to deal with tend to be extremely straight-forward, at least compared to the sugar-coating goodie nice-guys we're both used to in America.

While there isn't a lot of news to cover for this episode, I ask John to walk us through troubled economic times he's been through in the past. More so than just targeting the effect on IT - and how IT can survive bad money times - I ask him how it effect IT Management.

After discussing that topic for the bulk of the episode, John gives us his take on the Novell plans to acquire Managed Objects and I reprise my analysis of as well. We also talk about the virtualization numbers out on Microsoft's market share in that space, and John tells us about the uptick in PowerShell he's seen, at least in one study. Somewhere along the way we end up talking about BMC's IT Masters acquisition of a few years ago as well.

Disclosure: IBM is a client, as are Microsoft, ManagedObjects and BMC.

Today's debriefing - download it here, click play above to listen, or subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes - covers:

• NetBeans is 10.
• 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?
• Sun came out with Identity Compliance Manager which proves an nice place to talk about selling software by selling water to put out fires instead of lecturing about the virtues of flossing. See this short podcast from Sun overviewing ICM.
• 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.
• I had some good pizza with Phurnace last week, the Austin-based startup that has tools for migrating configuration between different application servers.
• 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.
• Rackspace has an upcoming cloud announcement this week in Austin. Is it something about Mosso? (Probably, since Rackspace is using their Twitter account to take questions.) Some EC2 competitor? We'll see this Wednesday. There's a lice web-cast as well.
• Next, I got over the astonishing numbers from IDC on Microsoft's take of the virtualization market: 23% of the x86 market they say. Over at virtualization.info they have a good post discussing the numbers.
• I briefly mention TopCoder Direct.

Disclosure: Sun, Microsoft, Adobe, and Phurnace are clients.

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This week, Ryan and I discuss the major news item of the week, namely:

• Silverlight 2.0's release and the Eclipse/Java tie-in. We'll have more for you next week when with a special edition of RIA Weekly with Microsoft's Brad Beckler.
• Adobe's release of Creative Suite 4, including Flash Player 10 and support for Linux out of the gate.
• Sun's release of Java SE 6 Update 10 which does much to lay the foundation for JavaFX.
• Mozilla's Open Web Labs.
• Android should have shiped today.

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John was occupied for this podcast, so I rounded up two stand-ins: Tarus Balog and Brandon Whichard, both returning guests.

Among other topics, we discuss the recent finding in the wild of OpenNMS, maps and dashboards in IT Management platforms, Novell putting in plans to buy Managed Objects, CMDBf being demo'ed, and we get general updates on OpenNMS and Zenoss from Tarus and Brandon.

Disclosure: Zenoss is a client, as are Managed Objects and IBM. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.

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When I was in his neck of the woods last, I got the chance to talk with Sun's Danny Coward, the Chief Architect of Sun's Client Software (that is, Java SE, Java ME, JavaFX and JavaCard), about Java 6 Update 10. That seems like kind of a narrow topic to speak to, but as Danny and I discuss, it's a big release for Sun's RIA and client-side (re-)push.

Along those lines, we spend a lot of time detailing the re-written plugin that's used for Java applets and JavaFX, the improved installer and update experience, and other client side features like one of the new GUI look-n-feels, Nimbus.

Update 10 is available now. Also, check out Danny's The Planetarium, his daily, but fantastically concise news-link blog.

Disclosure: Sun is a client and sponsored this podcast.

Today's debriefing (download directly here or subscribe to the feed for auto-download) covers:

• Silverlight 2.0 is out! We'll cover this is more depth in this week's RIA Weekly, but I skim the specifics and comment on the Eclipse Silverlight plugin project.
• Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith joined Mozilla to start the developer tools department (or "labs," or whatever). Congrats to them, this will be fun to watch.
• I cover three briefings I've had since the last debriefing: xkoto, Service-now.com (getting in the enterprise; looking good), and a PERFMAN demo.
• People have been asking me how the crappy money-times will effect software, while I don't really have answers, one place to cut back is on upgrades. You've already for the previous version that "works," so do you need to spend to get new stuff. Potential hits here could come for Windows Vista (already under fire) and Adobe's CS4 release.
• InnoTech is tomorrow. I should be there, along with other Austin-ites. Check out Mumboe booth! If you can't spring the $35, whurley has a code for free passes for you. Also, as I noted yesterday, there are two other Austin conferences coming up: Spiceworld and the IBM Telelogic User Group conference.
• 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.
• Google's Android (on T-Mobile) should be in people's hands Friday.
• A beta of Firefox 3.1 is out. It's got fancy tab switching and "open web" friendly standards support aplenty. Check out the Hardware 2.0 blog post on the topic for some speed tests and more details.
• Finally, I followed up with Surgient this morning. Check out the short interview I did with their CTO.

Disclosure: Microsoft, Adobe, BMC, IBM, Spiceworks, and Managed Objects are clients. See the RedMonk clients list for other clients mentioned.

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Over the past few months, I've seen an up-tick in announcements and mentions around Austin-based Surgient. I visited with them a little over a year ago to hear about their virtual lab management and hosting services. In the mean time, as we learn in the podcast, they've extended their product line to on-premise installs to help IT departments deliver self-service developer, QA, and other virtual labs.

Their motto, "Self-Service Virtualization Automation and Lab Management" is pretty damn descriptive.

If you're interested in the overall virtualization market, it's worth listening to Dave Malcolm, their CTO and Senior VP of Product Development.

Disclosure: While Surgient is a client, we talk about several companies who are, like IBM and Microsoft. See the RedMonk client list for others mentioned.

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While the big-time news was light this week, Ryan and I found plenty to talk about. We spend a fair amount of time talking about ZoHo mail and the ZoHo marketplace, the curious case of the missing RIA email client, Pandora on the Chumby, Google ads in Flash games, conferences (like PDC), and then close out by pointing out two RIA-based (or at least using) enterprise applications I recently did screencasts for, myCMDB and ZipTie.

Disclosure: Adobe is a client, as are Microsoft, Managed Objects, and AlterPoint.

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Recently, I recorded a podcast with Luke Kanies and Abe Ingresoll (of Shopzilla) about Shopzilla's use of Puppet for server configuration management. Abe walks us through the decision to start using Puppet and then the roll outs the initial did as they added new data-centers.

Also, in part two of this episode, Abe asks Luke for about upcoming features and gives Luke a wish-list of features: top among them integrating with asset management systems. Luke, of course, tells Abe (and us) about what we can expect to see along those lines in upcoming Puppet releases.

Disclosure: Reductive Labs is a client and sponsored this podcast.

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Recently, I recorded a podcast with Luke Kanies and Abe Ingresoll (of Shopzilla) about Shopzilla's use of Puppet for server configuration management. Abe walks us through the decision to start using Puppet and then the roll outs the initial did as they added new data-centers.

Also, in part two of this episode, Abe asks Luke for about upcoming features and gives Luke a wish-list of features: top among them integrating with asset management systems. Luke, of course, tells Abe (and us) about what we can expect to see along those lines in upcoming Puppet releases.

Disclosure: Reductive Labs is a client and sponsored this podcast.

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This week, John and I manage to balance out time between traditional IT Management and cloud talk. While we discuss IBM's cloud announcements of earlier this week, we also talk about the idea of predictive analytics (from Tivoli, BMC, and others). Also, we talk about "virtual reality" (Second Life and friends) and how that might not be such a crock of...crock. For the fun-bunch out there, we give a short take on the IT Skeptic's book, Real ITSM, which is well worth checking out.

Disclosure: IBM and BMC are clients, as is Sun. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.

Today's debriefing (download directly here or subscribe to the feed for auto-downloads) goes over:

• Pandora free, streaming music is now available on Chumby (see pic above). I rarely get the amount of use I should from the Chumby - it's a shelf-gadget - but I've liked Pandora on it so far, today.
• 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.
• Bouncing off an IBM Tivoli Predictive Analytics analyst teleconference earlier this week I talk cover what that is exactly, compare it to BMC's ProactiveNet, and have a happy coincidental connection to an interview on capacity planning for web-ops people.
• Finally, after fiddling around with the FriendFeed-like features in Facebook, I ask if anyone (in this audience) uses Facebook.

Also, thanks to John for pointing out the Debriefing podcasts: I'm glad he likes them ;)

Disclosure: Adobe, Splunk, Microsoft, IBM, BMC, and MindTouch are clients. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.

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.
• Alex Miller noted that JDK 1.4 is End-of-Lifing (EOL), which makes me wistful for the good old days being exciting about regex in Java and JMX. (Or maybe that was in 1.3?) Also, be sure to check out Danny Coward's The Planetarium, a nice, short wrap-up of daily Java news.
• Microsoft released the free version of it's virtualization engine, Hyper-V last week, It's free! Related, but not mentioned, is IBM's all you can eat guest-instance Blade release from last week.
• 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.
• CA launched an automation, of DCA strategy/product this week.
• Finally, I point out that I've been sharing a lot of things in Google Reader, in addition to del.icio.us bookmarks. So, check out that page/feed if you like links.
• 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.

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While at the Adobe MAX judging pow-wow this week, I pulled fellow judge Andre Charland (of Nitobi) aside to see what was going on his neck of the RIA woods.

We start out discussing the Ajax conference scene where there seems to be a division between tech-focused conference and business-focused conferences. Then we discuss PhoneGap: an iPhone App framework for writing native iPhone apps with JavaScript and HTML, that is, Ajax. As Andre says, they're working on Blackberry and Android versions as well.

On that note, I ask Andre what he thinks about Google Android's future. As we both say, we'd lust after something as great as the iPhone that was more open. We spend sometime bemoaning the non-open nature of the iPhone when it comes to app selection.

Andre rounds out by commenting on Microsoft's addition of jQuery in Visual Studio.

And, keep your eyes peeled for a short video I did with Andre on Nitobi.

(We recorded on a tarrace at Adobe HQ, so you can hear the street in the background and planes from time to time: how nice is it be outside, though?)

Disclosure: Adobe and Microsoft are clients.

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Recently, I had the chance to sit down with Sun's Jacob Lehrbaum. We start out discussing the larger context that RIA technologies are finding themselves in and then narrow down to JavaFX in particular.

On that topic I ask Jacob to clear up the what and how questions around JavaFX and open source, we discuss how the JavaFX Preview release has been fairing, and then get into some of the future road-map for JavaFX.

If you're interested in more about JavaFX, be sure to check out the two videos I also did on the topic with Sun's Nandini Ramani.

Disclosure: this episode of RIA Weekly is sponsored by Sun, who's also a client.

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This week, John "The Cloud to Everyone's Silver-lining" Willis and I start out talking about the recent spate of cloud-bashing, from Messieurs Larry and Stallman. Partly in response, I point out a nice piece from Savio Rodrigues in reply to all this trough of disillusionment talk. Bouncing off some Gnip gnews, I ask John about the revenue for things like Amazon EC2: can you really survive off $0.40/month/customer? We also discuss the implications of Windows running in the cloud, on Amazon EC2.

Mid-way through, we're joined by Zenoss's Brandon Whichard. We start out discussing the idea of "market-places" that I've been seeing getting attention of late (see yesterday's debriefing that mentioned Zoho marketplace). Brandon points out the common theme here: the return of making money off software.

Having worked with Brandon over the years, I ask him for his take on IT Management (he having departed into Identity Management for 4 years and recently come back). After John asks about the next part of the enterprise stack to be commoditized, we get into a lengthy discussion of reporting in IT Management: it never seems to do perfectly what users want, why is it that?

Disclosure: Zenoss is a client, as are Microsoft and IBM. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.

Today's debriefing (download here or subscribe to the feed) deals with two Z's primarily: a brief commentary on ZoHo Marketplace and a short update I recorded with Matt Ray, community manager for Zenoss, an IT Management platform. See the Zenoss 2.2.4 release notes for more details on the release Matt Ray talks about.

I also briefly mention the latest Flash maybe could be on the iPhone news that Ryan and I tragically missed in our RIA Weekly recording today. And, here's the cloud computing/capacity management article I mention.

Next time, I'll include the second part of the short discussion I had with Matt Ray: we talk about the python community in Austin.

As an admin note, I've included these debriefings in the main RedMonk Radio feed in addition to the PeopleOverProcess.com feed.

Disclosure: Adobe is a client, as is Zenoss.

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In this episode Ryan joins from his tour of Asia (see above), calling in from Korea. We start out talking about Ryan's observations of Japanese and Korean RIA developers and then move into a discussion of the recent announcements around jQuery.

Recapping some news of the past month, we talk about the after-glow usage of Google Chrome: while there was large initial interest, of course, we've just anecdotally seen people (like Managed Objects) suggesting its use for speed increases in using web applications.

After a few more news items - like Silverlight 2.0 -- Ryan asks me how RIAs fit into the cloud computing hype that's been going on: the answer revolves around RIAs trying to make this round of client/server computing better.

As an admin note, you've probably noticed that I've moved the podcast to it's own URL at http://www.RIAWeekly.com. The feed is the same, so you shouldn't have to change anything on the subscription front.

Disclosure: Adobe is a client, as are Microsoft and Managed Objects.