Christopher Keene

I attended the GigaOm Mobilize conference (where VMware was well represented by CTO Steve Herrod) and came away with a few observations that are relevant for our overall mobile strategy: The web is the new app store. I had dinner with the heads of mobile for two large retail chai... (more)

RedHat conducted a survey of over 1,200 VMworld attendees on their cloud plans. Here is the question that I found most interesting: What primary development framework are you planning to use in the cloud? Java EE 32%.NET 29%PHP 14%Python 6%Spring 6%Ruby/Rails 5%If you take this at ... (more)

Just as the LAMP stack provided a core foundation next gen for web applications, Cloud Foundry is providing a core foundation for next gen cloud platforms. Cloud Foundry announced today that two new startups are building their clouds based on Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry is provi... (more)

DevOps, which I will arbitrarily define here as "automating SysAdmin tasks to streamline application lifecycle management," raises important questions about the cloud. Developers may ask: "if I have a self-service portal for deploying applications (aka PaaS), do I need SysAdmins ... (more)

We seem to be coming to the end of the definition of Platform as a Service (PaaS) blog posts and are now moving on to the more pressing question of what is PaaS good for? In a recent Paul Maritz talk at GigaOm Structure conference, he referred to PaaS as "a cloaking layer for clo... (more)

Over the last month, I have had lengthy discussions about developer adoption of Platform as a Service with two of my favorite cloud computing analysts - John Rymer of Forrester and Michael Cote of RedMonk. The net of these conversations that we are still early in the adoption cur... (more)

Cloud Foundry is an incredibly cool way to build and deploy cloud apps to any target cloud using very simple commands. The basic api has just three commands:vmc target cloud.url //targets a cloudvmc login // login to cloudvmc push // run your app in the cloudThree commands and th... (more)

The mood at last week's Open Source Think Tank was surprisingly somber. Two years ago, the open source community was celebrating huge acquisitions such as Sun's purchase of MySQL (and even the VMware acquisition of WaveMaker). This year, the consensus was that the economic model ... (more)

I took the title of this post from a recent blog entry by Michael Cote. Cloud enthusiasts (often people with limited operations experience) talk in grandiose terms of moving the entire data center to a public cloud. Cloud naysayers (often people with extensive operations experien... (more)

We are announcing today that WaveMaker has been acquired by VMware. This partnership is the result of discussions that have been going on between WaveMaker and the SpringSource division of VMware for more than a year. I have always had great respect for how Rod Johnson revitalized ... (more)

Over the last week, Platform as a Service has moved out of the shadows to become big news in the cloud world. Here is a quick roundup of recent events: RedHat acquires Makara: this is a great move by RedHat, who has been hitherto a peripheral player in the great cloud game. Makara... (more)

Rich Bianco over at the Displaced Guy blog just wrote a post entitled WaveMaker delivers for the cloud like PowerBuilder did for client-server. In it, he talks about using WaveMaker to migrate PowerBuilder applications to Java. He makes a number of great point in his post. Here a... (more)

A recent survey of WaveMaker's 15,000 developers found that over 20% had moved to WaveMaker as an alternative to Microsoft development tools like MS Access and MS .NET. "Microsoft shops" typically employ a variety of Microsoft products and have dozens to hundreds of applications ... (more)

Citrix and WaveMaker's partnership to deliver a complete cloud development platform is gaining attention. This week, John Abbott of the 451 Group wrote a piece on how the Citrix Cloud Center strategy is coming together, thanks to a little help from WaveMaker (registration require... (more)

Althought the iPad is getting all the press these days, WaveMaker customers are building pretty compelling apps with plain old ruggedized PCs. This week we announced an application built using WaveMaker that meets the demanding requirements of warehouse loading docks for grocery st... (more)

Getting somewhat adventurous, I started a new blog and created a post on Free Alternatives to Microsoft Access. We see it as our patriotic duty ;-) to make the world safe from proprietary client/server platforms. Enterprises are increasingly moving from proprietary platforms like M... (more)

WaveMaker is on a roll - having hit profitability at the end of last year, we are now targeting 300% growth for 2010. This week, we announced the latest release of WaveMaker. With our 6.1 released, WaveMaker truly delivers on our "PowerBuilder for the Cloud" vision. We are the on... (more)

Gartner this week released a report entitled "Citizen Developers are Poised to Grow." The report by Gartner Analyst Eric Knipp describes how forces like more computer literate employees, cloud computing and better tools are fundamentally changing the role of IT. Eric paints a vis... (more)

Open source companies live or die by the health of their communities. WaveMaker's proudest achievement last year was creating a passionate and rapidly growing community. Thinking back, probably our most important decision affecting community health was made early in the year, whe... (more)

WaveMaker started 2009 staring into the abyss and ended the year on top of the clouds - funny how things work out in the startup world. During the year, WaveMaker doubled annual revenues and achieved profitability while also increasing quarterly sales by over 53%. The biggest mo... (more)