Links for February 19th through February 20th
- IBM Blue Cloud: More than thin air
John Willis' piece on the cloud talk at Pulse 09.
- OpenNMS User Conference Europe 2009
- All-Access – Embarcadero Technologies
All you can eat licensing for Embarcadero/CodeGear tools. I think it's a good move.
- Web Standards Gone Wild – Opinions – MIX Online
- Novell Strengthens Identity and Security Leadership Position Through Strategic Acquisitions
- SAP Buys PaaS Vendor's Intellectual Property
- How to make your first billion–with free software
- GridIron Flow Takes Workflow Organization To A Whole New Level
- Fire Eagle Location Streams
"Building an XMPP-enabled Fire Eagle application is very similar to building a traditional web-based application. In fact, the XMPP componentry is intended to complement an existing application, simplifying it and imbuing it with real-time capabilities."
- Quicken Online Can’t Believe Mint Is Doing So Well; Sends Threatening Letter
"But CEO Aaron Patzer says that as of today around 680,000 of 934,000 registered users (over 70%) have linked at least one bank account to Mint, with most of them linking between 5-6 of their financial accounts."
- The effect is in, FX is out
- Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag
Tarus chimes in the bags.
- A Look at the WordPress.com Data Center « Data Center Knowledge
Data center porn!
- And So Begins the Next Mainframe Saga – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
- SAP Acquires Coghead’s Technology As It Looks Towards The Cloud
- Microsoft-Red Hat deal shows need for virtualization support
"Under the terms of the deal…both companies will validate and offer customer support for each other's OSes on their virtualization technologies."
- Widget Powerhouse JS-Kit Strikes Deal With Sun Microsystems
Gotta be cloud, baby.
- HomeAway Offers New Reservation System | AustinStartup
Word on the street is that these people are just printing money. Good for them.
- US gooses economy with IT billions • The Register
Breakout of IT-related spending in the Obama Stimulus package.
- Facebook begins testing ads for third-party applications
Yeah, ads. That's lots of revenue I'm sure.
- Pinch Media Data Shows The Average Shelf Life Of An iPhone App Is Less Than 30 Days
"For free applications, only about 20 percent of users return to use the app the first day after they download it, and then it quickly drops off from there. By 30 days out, less than 5 percent are using the app. The chart for paid apps shows a slightly steeper fall-off rate. So there is a very brief window of time to capture people’s attention and potential revenues."
- Upcoming Verizon news: BlackBerry Niagara, Hub updates, Netbooks, Apex : Boy Genius Report
$99 Netbooks as a way to sell wireless broadband. Not a bad idea.
- Java ME: Burning a Blu-ray disc : The Planetarium
"Despite the current economic climate, nearly 10 million Blu-ray disc players were sold in the US in 2008 (a third in the last quarter), and consumers bought 2.5 times as many Blu-ray discs as the year before." As you may recall, Bluray players come with a Java runtime on them.
- Could the Recession Be Good for Enterprise Software? – Business Center – PC World
"It's not like Johnson & Johnson is going to crush Colgate because they've got better e-mail." Lots of good SaaS talk too.
- Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight…: How come Redmonk is the only analyst firm that cares about transparency?
Yeah, we're pretty awesome…. In all seriousness though, thanks for the kind words ;)
- Whatever Microsoft Touches, Microsoft Ruins
"The OSI may not be the only entity to have been ‘hijacked’. Some months ago we mentioned Redmonk because they have Microsoft’s money on their table, too. To their credit, they at least admit this upfront, as pointed out in this new post."
- JavaFX Hits 100,000,000 Milestone!
"[T]he Java business for Sun, last quarter, delivered more than $67m in billings, up nearly 50% year over year."
- 100 Million Downloads of JavaFX Runtime!! : JavaFX Blog
"The JavaFX Runtime has been downloaded over 100 Million times since launch on 12/4."
- Cloud security fears are overblown, some say – Network World
As a developer, you learn that when someone raises security concerns, most of the time they mean, "I don't want to do that and here's a BS reason."
- Web application platform Coghead shuts down | InfoWorld | News | 2009-02-19 | By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service
- Gartner: Don't assume SaaS is cheaper | InfoWorld | News | 2009-02-19 | By Leo King
- Virtual desktops ripe for deployment, hindered by cost – Network World
"[Virtualizing desktops] is going to save us $250,000 per year that we were spending on desktop refreshes. There were some upfront costs, but we figure there will be a two-year ROI," says Dustin Fennell, CIO of Scottsdale Community College in Arizona.
- HP cuts pay, benefits after poor financials – Network World
Whao, pay-cuts.
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