More Than Marketing
by Steven Berkowitz
On November 7, 2002, Chutney Technologies sponsored a small get-together at
New York City's Marriott Financial Center. When Alan forwarded the invite to
me, my first thought was, "Goodie. Nothing about Web services."
As it turns out, that wasn't entirely true, but Web services was not the
focus. They just came up as incidental to everything else.
The day started with a presentation by Charles Francois, Sun's chief
architect for Sun ONE. Francois talked about the Sun ONE set of products and
was followed by Chris Riley, senior technology evangelist from Cape Clear,
who spoke about their own CapeConnect software. These were straight marketing
presentations. You may well have uses for these products, in which case you
should visit their respective Web sites to learn more since such
presentations don't leave me with much of my own t... (more)
(July 25, 2003) - It's a truism to say that software development is a
communal activity. Unfortunately, a lot of newer Java developers don't get
it, which works to their own detriment and, potentially, to the detriment of
the wider Java community.
There's a stereotype of the hacker as a loner bent over his keyboard in a
room dark but for the pallid glow of the monitor. This is only partly true.
Yes, there does come a point where the rubber meets the road and you have to
sit down, by yourself, and pound out a killer algorithm. But if you think
that's all there is to it, if your st... (more)
While I wandered, head down, among the detritus of the post dot-com era, a
new world order was forming. When I looked up, I found the technical world
rallying under a new banner - Web services. Savior or hype? I had to know.
What better place to learn than the world's largest Web services event? So
off I went to SYS-CON's Web Services Edge 2002 East - International Web
Services Conference & Expo. While this was also the JDJEdge and XMLEdge
Expos, the main thrust was Web services. The keynotes all centered on Web
services and most of the Java and XML seminars also had a Web servic... (more)
U R G E N T A P P E A L
Distributed Denial of Service Attacks against SCO, or anyone for that matter,
are a clearly unacceptable activity. While many in the Open Source community
are not pleased with SCO's lawsuit against IBM, or their proposed legal
challenges aimed at Linux users, these DDoS attacks do not promote the Open
Source cause, and are not consistent with Open Source values. The Open Source
community is based on the notion that principals of free speech should be
applied to software development. DDoS attacks clearly deny the victim the
ability to communicate freely ... (more)
(May 19, 2003) - Java developers like open source software. To varying
degrees, anyway. For some, the attraction is free-as-in-speech; for others,
it is free-as-in-beer. None of this should come as a surprise to you, and I'm
certainly not the first person to make this observation. Nor will you be
surprised when I say that many developers believe the open source software is
necessarily better than commercial software.
This notion is a fallacy.
There is no question that there is some great open source software out there.
But the only open source projects the wider business community... (more)
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