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Simeon Simeonov
Simeon Simeonov is a technology partner of Polaris Ventures and invests primarily in Internet, mobile and enterprise technologies. Prior to joining Polaris, Sim was vice president of emerging technologies and chief architect at Macromedia (now Adobe). Earlier, Sim was a founding member and chief architect at Allaire which went from a tiny startup to become one of New England's most successful IPOs. Sim's expertise covers the gamut from strategy definition and positioning to R&D execution to go-to-market and alliances development. He has played a key role in eight v1.0 product initiatives and eight M&A and spinout transactions. Sim's innovation and leadership have brought about category-defining products with significant market impact: the first Web application server (ColdFusion), a pre-cursor to Web services and AJAX (WDDX), the best open-source Web services engine (Apache Axis) and the first rich Internet application platform (Flash/Flex). Sim has a track record of partnering with entrepreneurs prior to company creation. |
JavaOne - The Next
Programming Models, RIAs
and Composite
Applications By Simeon Simeonov  I've been around software
for 20 years now. Looking
back, I have mixed
feelings about the
progress we've made. The
end results have been
amazing but the process
of building software
hasn't fundamentally
changed since the 80s. In
fact, I see us make some
of the sam... May. 9, 2007 09:15 PM Reads: 112,420 Replies: 18 | The Web-Based Office++ By Simeon Simeonov Emergence is a strong,
albeit sometimes
unpredictable force. The
past two weeks have been
full of some interesting
conversations/observation
s. Google bought JotSpot.
I was reminded yet again
that Google Calendar is a
great product, Gmail is a
strange one and Docs an... Nov. 4, 2006 01:45 PM Reads: 13,058 Replies: 1 | E-Commerce 2.0 By Simeon Simeonov  With all the noise the
Web 2.0 revolutionaries
are making, it's easy to
ignore another-this time
velvet-revolution.
E-commerce 2.0 is coming
into maturity and getting
ready to relieve its now
10+ year old predecessor.
It's about time. Sep. 30, 2006 12:15 PM Reads: 21,470 Replies: 3 | "E-Commerce 2.0" –
The Velvet Revolution By Simeon Simeonov  With all the noise the
Web 2.0 revolutionaries
are making, it's easy to
ignore another &emdash;
this time velvet &emdash;
revolution: 'E-commerce
2.0' is coming into
maturity and getting
ready to relieve its now
ten-plus year old
predecessor. It's about
time. Sep. 21, 2006 12:15 PM Reads: 21,376 Replies: 1 | How Can Metcalfe's Law Be
Updated for Web 2.0? By Simeon Simeonov 'Metcalfe's Law is
Wrong,' contended Bob
Briscoe, Andrew Odlyzko,
and Benjamin Tilly
recently in a
much-discussed IEEE
Spectrum article, in
which they wrote: 'Of all
the popular ideas of the
Internet boom, one of the
most dangerously
influential was
Metcalfe's L... Aug. 19, 2006 08:45 AM Reads: 22,210 Replies: 6 | The Next Programming
Models By Simeon Simeonov  I've been around software
for 20 years now. Looking
back, I have mixed
feelings about the
progress we've made. The
end results have been
amazing, but the process
of building software
hasn't fundamentally
changed since the 80s. In
fact, I see us making
some of the ... Aug. 28, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 13,234 Replies: 1 | Integration Matters By Simeon Simeonov The challenge of
integrating software and
systems will always be
with us. In the brief but
turbulent history of
information technology,
creation and destruction
go hand in hand. Old
technologies and
approaches give way to
new ones, sometimes
quietly and sometimes ... Feb. 27, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 14,530 | Integration Is the Killer
App By Simeon Simeonov In 1975 Niklaus Wirth,
the Swiss computer
scientist who created the
Pascal programming
language, published a
seminal book entitled
Algorithms + Data
Structures = Programs. If
Wirth had written about
business applications,
Computing + Storage =
Applications would h... Feb. 27, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 17,722 | The Standards Democracy By Simeon Simeonov There's been much recent
controversy about the
role of Microsoft and IBM
in the evolution of Web
services standards. At a
conference I attended not
so long ago a pundit
talked about the
'standard setting
duopoly.' Several
articles have been
written about the
'un... Sep. 27, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 12,471 | Web Services Startups By Simeon Simeonov You must have seen them -
they're everywhere.
Despite the market
climate, Web services
startups are popping up
like mushrooms after
rain. With no time to
lose, these companies are
readying themselves to
take on the industry
gorillas. Who's going to
win? Sep. 27, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 12,325 | Can You Play the
Standards Game? By Simeon Simeonov Call me a cynic, but I
don't think companies
participate in standards
development out of
altruism. Enterprises are
in the business of making
their products and
technologies successful.
In an increasingly
interconnected technology
landscape, standards are
the keys to
interoperability. May. 30, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 14,718 | Web Services Directions By Simeon Simeonov It's been a long time
since the last XML in
Transit column. Did you
miss my musing on Web
services? I doubt it.
More likely, you were
busy keeping up with all
the new initiatives in
the Web services space.
Those of you with
corporate
responsibilities were
probab... Apr. 18, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 13,089 | Private UDDI Registries By Simeon Simeonov This article is based on
the UDDI chapter in
Building Web Services, to
be released this month.
It appears here in
slightly different form
by permission of the
publisher, Sams.
Contributors to the book
are Doug Davis, Steve
Graham, Yuichi Nakamura,
and Ryo Neyama f... Dec. 3, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 14,137 | XMLGUITools:
What'stheRightModel? By Simeon Simeonov There was a period around
1999-2000 when anything
XML was hyped beyond
belief. An XML-centric
GUI tool, no matter how
narrow in focus,
attracted interest and,
often enough, VC funding.
The net result was a
myriad of XML tools -
really XML gadgets - that
tried to a... Nov. 20, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 12,735 | Deeper into UDDI By Simeon Simeonov This article is based on
the UDDI chapter in
Building Web Services
(Sams), a book I've
written with Doug Davis,
Steve Graham, Yuichi
Nakamura, and Ryo Neyama
from IBM, Toufic Boubez
from Saffron Technology,
and Glen Daniels from
Macromedia. It's
scheduled for release
early next month. Nov. 20, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 14,800 | Introduction To UDDI By Simeon Simeonov As we look at the
evolution of both object
and component programming
models it's clear that
the concept of an object
or component registry is
an essential element that
facilitates the discovery
and use of components. Nov. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 20,136 | Scaling Web Services
Usage By Simeon Simeonov In the last installment
of XML in Transit (XML-J,
Vol. 2, issue 5), we
established a framework
for Web Services usage.
The key roles in the
framework are service
providers, requesters,
and brokers (see Figure
1). Moreover, the basic
Web Services use workflow
invol... Jul. 10, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 12,603 | A Framework For Using Web
Services By Simeon Simeonov In my last XML in Transit
column (XML-J, Vol. 2,
issue 5) we looked in
detail at the technical
aspects of the service
description layer of the
Web Service
interoperability stack
(see Figure 1). In fact,
the topic of our
discussion - Web Services
Description Langua... Jun. 3, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 12,831 | Web Services Description
Language By Simeon Simeonov It's time to look at the
details of the Web
Services Description
Language (WSDL)
specification and, in
particular, how abstract
information about Web
services is represented
in XML and which
extensibility mechanisms
enable the binding of
abstract specifications
... May. 22, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 13,625 | Web Services Description
Language By Simeon Simeonov In 'The Interoperability
Stack' (XML in Transit,
Vol. 2, issue 1), I
presented my view of the
Web service
interoperability stack, a
layered architecture for
analyzing the different
technologies involved at
various levels of
interoperability (see
Figure 1). Here... Feb. 4, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 13,394 | The Interoperability
Stack By Simeon Simeonov For the past six months
we've looked in detail at
the nuts and bolts of XML
protocols, Web services,
and XML data encoding.
These are the foundation
technologies of
next-generation Internet
distributed applications.
In the next several
months, I'll focus on
anothe... Jan. 8, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 12,577 | XML in Transit: Encoding
Data By Simeon Simeonov I just came back from the
first face-to-face
meeting of the W3C
working group on XML
Protocol (is it just me,
or is the name somewhat
odd-sounding?), and I'm
wondering what topics to
exclude from this column.
Yes, that's right -
exclude. Encoding data in
XML is a ... Dec. 21, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 15,083 | Intermediaries And More By Simeon Simeonov In my last XML in Transit
column (XML-J, Vol. 1,
issue 5) I promised to
complete my trilogy on
Simple Object Access
Protocol (SOAP) by
addressing the aspects of
the latest specification
that we haven't covered
yet: intermediaries,
error handling, and data
encoding... Oct. 16, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 13,332 | SOAP Part 2 By Simeon Simeonov The last edition of the
XML in Transit column
(XML-J, Vol. 1, issue 4)
introduced the Simple
Object Access Protocol
(SOAP). Instead of
dwelling on technical
issues, it focused on the
driving forces behind the
technology. Sep. 14, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 15,592 | SOAP - What is this thing
called SOAP? Here's the
Background, Part 1 By Simeon Simeonov I wanted to kick off this
new column on XML
protocols with an
introduction to the hot
newcomer in this arena -
Simple Object Access
Protocol (SOAP). Trouble
is, there are too many
ways to go about the
topic. The first version
I wrote was a technical
introduction t... Aug. 18, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 12,721 | The Evolution of XML
Protocols By Simeon Simeonov XML protocols can be
broadly classified into
two generations.
First-generation
protocols are based
purely on XML 1.0.
Second-generation
protocols take advantage
of two revolutionary XML
standards - XML
Namespaces and XML
Schema. This article
analyzes the reasons... Jun. 15, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 12,370 | XML for B2B Integration By Simeon Simeonov It wasn't long ago that
computer industry pundits
still thought that COM
and CORBA would become
the Internet
business-to-business
(B2B) integration
infrastructure. Yet
nowadays B2B integration
on the Internet is done
using XML on top of
simple protocols such as
... Apr. 12, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 13,973 |
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