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- Borland CEO on firm's "tough year"
- 'Office 2.0 Conference' gathers pace
- WebMethods buys into 'semantic web'
- US still dominates web
- IT still not business-focused enough?
- Why IBM bought FileNet (hint: it wasn't for the technology)
- Google accuses Post of "genericide"
- Vendors add portals like Gillette adds blades
- Are AOL search histories less risky than first thought?
- What do people search AOL for? Now we know
- Portals are back as Oracle readies another
Jason Stamper's Blog: August 2006 Archives
Borland CEO on firm's "tough year"
August 29, 2006
Borland Software's new CEO, Tod Nielsen, told me that despite this being a "tough year" for the company, he believes it is now addressing the most "significant opportunity Borland has ever had."
'Office 2.0 Conference' gathers pace
August 23, 2006
I don't often comment on IT shows, but the forthcoming Office 2.0 Conference to be held in San Fran in October caught my eye. Organised by IT|Redux, the list of speakers attending reads like a who's who of sexy Web 2.0 (sorry, I mean Office 2.0) start-ups and investor types, along with the odd giant:
- Rod Boothby, Manager, Ernst & Young
- Avi Bryant, co-CEO, Dabble DB
- Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO, Atlassian
- Andrew Catton, co-CEO, Dabble DB
- Jeff Clavier, Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
- Nik Cubrilovic, CEO, Omnidrive
- Jnan Dash, CTO, Foldera
- Anil Dash, Vice President, Evangelism, Six Apart
- Scott Dietzen, President and CTO, Zimbra
- Ismael Chang Ghalimi, CEO, Intalio
- Konstantin Guericke, Vice President of Marketing, LinkedIn
- Bruno Hald, Head of Strategy, System One
- Kaliya Hamlin, Network Director, Planetwork
- Eric Hoffert, CEO, ShareMethods
- Joe Kraus, CEO, JotSpot
- Jason Lemkin, CEO, EchoSign
- Ivaylo Lenkov, CEO, SiteKreator
- Matt Marshall, Columnist, The Mercury News
- Ross Mayfield, CEO, Socialtext
- Jeffrey McManus, CEO, Approver
- Oren Michels, CEO, Mashery
- Vassil Mladjov, CEO, Blogtronix
- Rafe Needleman, Category Director, CNET
- John Newton, Chairman and CTO, Alfresco
- Jeff Nolan, Evangelist, SAP
- Greg Olsen, CTO, Coghead
- Marc Orchant, Vice President of Marketing, Foldera
- Jason Roberts, CEO, Preezo
- John Roberts, CEO, SugarCRM
- Narendra Rocherolle, Principal, 83 Degrees
- Ken Rudin, CEO, LucidEra
- Dylan Schiemann, CEO, SitePen
- Tom Snyder, President, iNetOffice
- Bob Sutor, VP, Standards and Open Source, IBM
- Sridhar Vembu, CEO, Zoho
- Charlie Wood, Principal, Spanning Partners
- Jason Wood, Principal, Rothschild Capital Partners
- Ray Wu, Director, Venture Management, HP
- David Young, CEO, Joyent
It's being organised by the ebullient Ismael Ghalimi of IT|Redux, founder and CEO of Intalio, creator of BPMI.org (since folded into the OMG) and indeed the initiator of Office 2.0. He told me, "The goal is to collectively build the foundation for Office 2.0." Should be fun.
Looks like it will be a good event. The only question now is who's going to pay for my flights!
The official Office 2.0 Conference web site is here.
WebMethods buys into 'semantic web'
August 22, 2006
Great piece from my colleague Tony Baer today looking at webMethods' acquisition of Cerebra for an undisclosed sum, to incorporate its technology into the next version of webMethods' SOA fabric.
US still dominates web
New research has found that two-thirds of all domain names are hosted in the United States. This means that almost twelve times as many domain names are registered in the US as in Germany, which came in at second place.
IT still not business-focused enough?
August 21, 2006
Some new research from IT Service Management firm Axios Systems once again highlights the gaping void between IT and the business, this time also shining a spotlight on the fact that there is a significant lack of adoption of Best Practice and ITIL-based standards.
Why IBM bought FileNet (hint: it wasn't for the technology)
August 11, 2006
News that IBM has shelled out $1.6bn to buy content management and business process management vendor FileNet caused a fair few raised eyebrows, as IBM already has a software portfolio packed to the gills with both of those technologies.
Google accuses Post of "genericide"
August 10, 2006
Just saw a really funny piece in the Washington Post by Frank Ahrens about a legal letter they received from Google's lawyers, accusing the Post of "genericide".
Vendors add portals like Gillette adds blades
August 09, 2006
How many portals is enough? It's a good question, because BEA already has two, and in the fourth quarter when Oracle launches its new portal, news of which broke in this blog, it too will have two portals. What can BEA do except build or buy a third portal? Is the only thing better than having two portals to have three portals?
Today portals are like Jaguars: having one is fine, but having two is just much nicer. But I am also starting to see parallels between portals and razor blades. You know, the "what do we do to improve our twin-blade razor? I know, add another blade!" story.
Are AOL search histories less risky than first thought?
August 08, 2006
One thing I didn't mention in my blog yesterday but which I think with hindsight I should have, is that we don't actually know that the AOL searches by a particular anonymised user are all by the same person. They may all be performed on the same AOL account, but of course many people share an account among their family, lodgers and so on, and may even let their PC-less neighbour come round from time to time to do some surfing.
What do people search AOL for? Now we know
August 07, 2006
News that AOL has released massive amounts of search history data has already got users up in arms if various blog comment boards are anything to go by. People don’t take kindly to the notion that a firm like AOL should suddenly decide to make all of their web searches public. I'm not surprised.
Portals are back as Oracle readies another
Oracle is gearing up to launch a brand new portal technology in the last quarter of this year likely to be called Oracle Workplace Suite, I've learned.
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