By Alan Williamson  Cloud computing is real. Cloud computing is changing how we in the software world work. But it is not everything to everyone and it is definitely not the second coming that will change how we all interact on the Internet. While I respect Stephen Fry hugely, I find myself a little disap... Oct. 7, 2008 12:15 PM Reads: 526 |
By Alan Williamson  Cloud computing is an opportunity for businesses to implement low-cost, low-power and high-efficiency systems to deliver scalable infrastructure. But moving to a cloud infrastructure is not necessarily as nice and clean as the providers would want you to think. With cloud infrastructur... Oct. 7, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 136 |
By Alan Williamson  Everywhere you look, someone somewhere is talking about clouds. Cloud this, cloud that, what on earth is all this fuss about? Well the good news, as with most technologies it's never as complicated as the marketing hype would lead you to believe. We've been working in the 'cloud' world... Oct. 2, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 443 |
By Alan Williamson  The once darling of the software industry, VMWare, is currently struggling to recover to anything close to what it was. With stock once riding high at $124 per share, it is now struggling to break the $40 barrier. VMWare rode the initial wave of the virtualization revolution, producing... Jul. 26, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 2,112 |
By Alan Williamson  For many years, Java and web developers alike have had to explain to the unwitting that JavaScript had absolutely nothing to do with Java. It was one of the great marketing gaffes of the mid-90s. They were no more alike than chalk and cheese. But in the last six months, I have had to l... Jul. 3, 2008 07:15 AM Reads: 12,234 Replies: 5 |
By Alan Williamson Have you played with Google's Desktop tool? This is basically a strip on the side of your screen that lets you house small applications, called Gadgets. The tool is available for Windows, Linux and Mac so no matter your vice there is a flavour for you. There is a wide variety of Gadget... Nov. 2, 2007 07:15 PM Reads: 15,466 Replies: 1 |
By Alan Williamson  Yahoo has agreed to purchase Zimbra, the open source enterprise mail server company, for approximately $350M. As a Zimbra user, I am not sure if this is good news or not. Definitely good news for the employees, shareholders and investors for Zimbra. Although, it doesn't sound a lot ... Sep. 18, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 9,139 Replies: 1 |
By Alan Williamson  Another big surprise, and to the relief of many a system administrator, is that Apache Tomcat is out. Instead Jetty is the new underlying servlet engine that will make the whole thing tick. I have long ditched Tomcat in favor of Jetty; principal reasons include much faster start up tim... Sep. 18, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 8,793 Replies: 1 |
By Alan Williamson If you're a parent, then you'll have been through it. Your son or daughter wants to play on your computer and before you know it, you've given yourself up to the wonders of CBEEBIES and Club Penguin on MiniClip. This is all fine and dandy until they stray to another site and boom a who... Aug. 6, 2007 09:15 PM Reads: 9,904 Replies: 2 |
By Alan Williamson This week at LinuxWorld Laurie Tolson gave reporters an update on the planned release of Java and its associated tools under an open source license. By the end of the year, javac and the hot spot compiler will be released. The precise license details haven't yet been announced yet - th... May. 23, 2007 09:00 PM Reads: 27,701 Replies: 4 |
By Alan Williamson It really is our own fault; we have come to expect too much of Sun. They are like that lovable uncle we have. They have the best stories at the dinner table, but if you look around at the other adults, they are all rolling their eyes and laughing politely. They always promise they are ... May. 13, 2007 09:15 AM Reads: 26,346 Replies: 4 |
By Alan Williamson At the weekend my cousin innocently commented to me that he was having some problems with his Java installation and asked if I could have a look for him. He manages a fleet of lorries that go all over Europe and one of the tools he has is a real time tracker of where every driver and v... Sep. 28, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 10,111 Replies: 3 |
By Alan Williamson 'Commit reporting has been done before,' Micah Dowty tells LinuxWorld Magazine's founding editor Alan Williamson in this exclusive interview at the recent Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, 'but one of the things that makes CIA really unique is that it brings projects to... Apr. 20, 2005 02:00 AM Reads: 21,917 |
By Alan Williamson Kontek Industries announced today that it has been selected to demonstrate its steel bollards, vehicle barriers, mobile troop housing with mortar shield roof, erectable mortar shield canopy, and .50 caliber armor-proof, blast-tested guardhouse, at the invitation-only 5th Force Protecti... Apr. 19, 2005 01:30 PM Reads: 16,203 |
By Alan Williamson CD Group, a national consulting firm providing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to mid-market and enterprise companies, today announced it has signed an agreement with Microsoft(R) to sell Microsoft Business Solutions- Axapta(R) to clients acr... Apr. 19, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 16,500 |
By Alan Williamson Apr. 19, 2005 12:55 PM Reads: 15,570 |
By Alan Williamson Analysts International announced today that the Company will schedule its regular quarterly conference call after the Company and Computer Horizons Corp. have filed their Form S-4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing is expected to take place in May. Apr. 19, 2005 12:30 PM Reads: 14,080 |
By Alan Williamson Renaissance Learning(R), Inc., , a leading provider of learning information systems and school improvement programs for pre-K-12 schools, today announced a partnership with Sagebrush Corporation, which will further strengthen the distribution of its reading products. Sagebrush, a leade... Apr. 19, 2005 12:01 PM Reads: 14,733 |
By Alan Williamson Apr. 19, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 15,486 |
By Alan Williamson KongZhong Corporation , a leading provider of advanced second-generation (2.5G) wireless value-added services in China, announces that Mr. JP Gan has accepted an offer from the Company to be the Senior Vice President of Finance, effective May 16, 2005. Mr. Gan will report to Nick Yang... Apr. 19, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 14,918 |
By Alan Williamson Citadel Commerce Corp, empresa líder de proceso de pagos a través de Internet, ha anunciado que GoldenPalace.com ofrece ahora myCitadel como opción de pago instantáneo en sus páginas web. Apr. 19, 2005 08:53 AM Reads: 18,260 |
By Alan Williamson LogicaCMG today announced it has won a contract with DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (DiGi), a prepaid mobile market leader in Malaysia, to deploy Next Generation video streaming services in partnership with Nextreaming and Inphosoft. Apr. 19, 2005 07:00 AM Reads: 18,139 |
By Alan Williamson Apr. 19, 2005 04:05 AM Reads: 15,397 |
By Alan Williamson ITC^DeltaCom, Inc. , a leading provider of integrated communications services to customers in the southeastern United States, today announced that Richard E. Fish has been appointed the Company's Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Fish joined ITC^DeltaCom in February 2005 as Chief Administr... Apr. 18, 2005 09:07 PM Reads: 14,793 |
By Alan Williamson Citadel Commerce Corp, ein führender Internet-Zahlungsverarbeiter, gibt bekannt, dass Bodog.com jetzt myCitadel als Lösung für Sofortzahlungen auf ihren Webseiten anbietet. Apr. 18, 2005 08:24 PM Reads: 15,768 |
By Alan Williamson Wegener Corporation , a leading provider of television, radio and data distribution networks worldwide, today is exhibiting their products at National Association of Broadcasters 2005 Exhibition in Las Vegas. The show runs from Monday, April 18 through Thursday, April 21, 2005. Apr. 18, 2005 08:08 PM Reads: 14,657 |
By Alan Williamson FullTilt Solutions, Inc., a provider of Enterprise Product Information Management (PIM) software solutions that make perfect product information possible, today announced record sales growth for the quarter ending March 31, 2005. Revenue bookings increased 200% over the comparable qua... Apr. 18, 2005 06:03 PM Reads: 13,883 |
By Alan Williamson Marconi Corporation plc Apr. 18, 2005 05:27 PM Reads: 14,185 |
By Alan Williamson Motorola, Inc. has been selected by Adelphia Communications to provide the Motorola Broadband Services Router (BSR) family of products for deployment of advanced data services. This latest selection further establishes the BSR 64000 as an industry leading carrier-class CMTS/edge rout... Apr. 18, 2005 05:12 PM Reads: 13,877 |
By Alan Williamson US LEC Corp. , a telecommunications carrier serving businesses and enterprise organizations throughout the Eastern United States, today announced it will provide an online Web simulcast and rebroadcast of its first quarter 2005 conference call on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 at 1:00 pm East... Apr. 18, 2005 05:00 PM Reads: 14,437 |
By Alan Williamson Citadel Commerce Corp, a leading Internet payment processor, announces that Bodog.com is now offering myCitadel as an instant payment option on their websites. Apr. 18, 2005 04:05 PM Reads: 17,396 |
By Alan Williamson LendingTree Settlement Services, LLC (LTSS), which was created in 2004 through a joint venture between LendingTree, LLC and GreenLink, LLC, has gained considerable momentum in the four months since fulfilling its first order. LTSS provides real estate-secured settlement services that ... Apr. 18, 2005 02:02 PM Reads: 19,854 |
By Alan Williamson Le chiffre d'affaires consolidé du Groupe NEYRIAL HAUTE TECHNOLOGIE, pour le premier semestre, s'établit à 20,5 millions d'euros contre 19,5 millions pour la même période de l'année précédente. Apr. 18, 2005 01:06 PM Reads: 13,917 |
By Alan Williamson Smart Online(R), Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: SOLN) announces Summit Strategies has acknowledged the company as a top pure-play net-native vendor in the Software- as-Services (SaS) market in their recent report written by Phil Wainewright, titled 'Software Powered Services: Net-Native Soft... Apr. 18, 2005 12:02 PM Reads: 65,846 |
By Alan Williamson Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a global leader in the development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced today the availability of its new WLAN Power Amplifier (PA) for the fast-growing high-volume WLAN market. Apr. 18, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 13,773 |
By Alan Williamson Appistry has been included in the list of 'Cool Vendors' in the 'Cool Vendors in Application Platforms and Service Oriented Architecture, 2005' report by Gartner, Inc. The report will be available for download on http://www.appistry.com/ . Apr. 18, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 12,885 |
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Alan Williamson is a Sun Java Champion and creator of OpenBlueDragon (an open source Java CFML runtime engine). While he has dabbled in the black art of JavaScript he prefers his Java. Follow his blog, http://alan.blog-city.com/ or e-mail him at ajaxworld(at)alanwilliamson.org. 
