Saas Journal on Ulitzer
Until today, web developers creating SaaS apps have been faced with an ugly
choice: use proprietary development platforms like Force.com or build an open
solution from scratch.
WaveMaker released the first open cloud development platform. WaveMaker 6.0
is a visual development platform that runs in a browser.
WaveMaker makes it ridiculously easy for anyone to prototype, develop and
customize great looking web applications.
How easy you ask? Well, how 'bout:
15 second WaveMaker hello world test drive 7 minute WaveMaker multi-tenant
SaaS screencast Free open source download of WaveMaker at
www.wavemaker.com/downloads
WaveMaker cloud edition at cloud.wavemaker.com
With all this open and cloudy goodness, it is not surprising that the
momentum behind WaveM... (more)
We know all about these loose ecosystems of Barney-loving, hand-holding,
kumbaya-singing companies who promise a full solution to help you take
advantage of the next overwhelming wave of technology...for a fee.
In the past, vendor ecosystem announcements indicate a vague intention on the
part of the vendors to do something together someday - providing they can all
find a customer to pay fo... (more)
Cloud Computing on Ulitzer
I spoke this morning with the cloud evangelist for a hardware manufacturer.
Not surprisingly, they come at cloud from the iron up, so for them cloud is
mostly about virtualization with a little more buzz.
While I can understand this viewpoint, if today's cloud is just yesterday's
server consolidation in new clothes, then Larry Ellison's latest "a cloud is
just wa... (more)
Internet Explorer, particularly versions 6 and before, are the bane of any
web developer's existence. The Internet Explorer versions Microsoft produced
during the competion-free era between when Netscape died and Firefox came on
the scene are masterpieces of monopolistic neglect. IE 5 and IE6 are slow,
proprietary and just plain awful to work with.
Worst of all, Microsoft guaranteed themse... (more)
With all the hullabaloo about cloud computing, it is easy to get caught up in
the trend of the day and miss the big picture. The big picture is that cloud
computing disrupts the data center world by slashing the capital and skills
required to deploy a web application.
If that is the big prize, then most of what passes for news in cloud
computing is more along the lines of "me speak cloud t... (more)
Christopher Keene is Chairman and CEO of WaveMaker (formerly ActiveGrid). Chris was the founder, in 1991, of Persistence Software, a San Mateo, CA-based company that created a new approach for managing data in high-transaction banking and communications systems. Persistence Software investors included Cisco, Intel, Reuters and Sun Microsystems. The company went public in 1999 on the NASDAQ exchange and was sold in 2004 to Progress software.After leaving Persistence Software in 2005, Chris spent a year in France as chairman of Reportive Software, a Paris-based maker of business-intelligence tools, and as an adjunct professor and entrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD, a leading graduate business school. 
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