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 for it.
With the cloud, however, ecosystems are different. They are easier to create,
both from a business and technical point of view. They are also much more
transparent, as the results of their efforts are available for the whole
world to see.
WaveMaker, RightScale, IBM and Amazon just announced their own cloud
ecosystem. This ecosystem is being marketed as a cloud quick start program,
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ZapThink just produced a good report on the state of Web 2.0 tools entitled
"Evolution of the Rich Internet Applcation Market." In the report, Jason
Bloomberg and Ron Schmelzer of Zapthink highlight a critical gap in most RIA
solutions: the inability to access data from within the UI. They then point
to this as a major source of competitive advantage for Adobe: "Adobe stands
alone as the... (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)
We recently held a joint webinar with IBM to describe a methodology for ISVs
to migrate to SaaS and cloud computing cost-effectively (you can see the
recorded webinar here). The key is being able to leverage existing data and
logic while moving iteratively to deliver web, SaaS and Cloud capabilities
that provide the biggest value to the customer at the least cost and risk to
the software... (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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