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Latest Articles from Jeremy Geelan
By Jeremy Geelan  We're here with Pierre Fricke, director of product management at JBoss, at LinuxWorld in Boston. JBoss has made about 77 announcements and it's only day two, and there's some other stuff we must get onto. Thank you for joining us Pierre. Jul. 15, 2006 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 22,891 | By Jeremy Geelan Many commentators, analysts, executives, and software developers so far this year have been processing the arrival of what has been dubbed 'Web 2.0' with sage prudence born of having seen Web 2.0's bubble-like characteristics once before, with Web 1.0...and having gotten burned. The VC... Jul. 7, 2006 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 26,166 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan The four bloggers behind the Creating Passionate Users blog are all passionate about the brain and metacognition. Two of the four are also the co-creators of the Head First book series published by O'Reilly. So it is hardly surprising that, when one of the four - Kathy Sierra - snapped... Jun. 22, 2006 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 10,512 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan What comes after Google? Where will the Web, the Internet, the whole nexus of telecommunications, i-Technology, and the quest for a better world, take us? Jun. 14, 2006 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 26,170 | By Jeremy Geelan  Ever since Google realized that 12% of the population would consult Google prior to seeing a doctor, which was followed by a British Medical Journal editorial suggesting that one of the natural next steps for Google would be some kind of medical database for personal use, rumors have b... Jun. 9, 2006 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 23,636 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan  In the seven brief years since selling Mecklermedia, the Chairman and CEO of Jupitermedia - Alan Meckler - appears to have packed in what most business leaders would happily have accepted as their lifetime's achievement. SYS-CON Media group publisher and editorial director Jeremy Geela... Jun. 3, 2006 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 39,111 Replies: 5 | By Jeremy Geelan 'We're now making serious progress on open sourcing Java,' writes Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, 'while focusing the debate on what matters most: not access to lines of code (that's already widely available), but ensuring compatibility.' Schwartz was writing in his 'Jonathan's Blog' - whic... May. 30, 2006 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 20,269 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan  The advisability of eating in your own kitchen is something you often hear about, but never does it make more sense than when applied in the world of software development. Why accept that service-oriented architecture is a must for your mission-critical backend systems, for example, if... May. 17, 2006 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 23,162 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan At the annual JavaOne event that he calls the 'epicenter' of his mission to remake Sun's business by making the company deeply relevant to developers, CEO Jonathan Schwartz yesterday wooed attendees with a keynote designed to underline how much Sun views as a collective endeavor the bu... May. 17, 2006 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 18,186 Replies: 9 | By Jeremy Geelan Ever since Google realized that 12% of individuals would consult Google prior to seeing a doctor, followed by a British Medical Journal editorial suggesting that one of the natural next steps for Google would be some kind of medical database for personal use, the rumors had been circul... May. 15, 2006 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 17,088 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan Out of the blue, with its unstoppable passion for homing in on THE issue of the day, the world's most-read business magazine - BusinessWeek - has triangulated on Java as one of the the software world's key ignition points right now. May. 12, 2006 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 26,198 Replies: 21 | By Jeremy Geelan  Like so many of the ideas that tumble out of the Googleplex into the public domain, Google Trends is irresistible. Jeremy Geelan puts the application, newly taken out of beta and now available to all cyberspace from the Google main page, through its paces by taking it out for a giddy s... May. 12, 2006 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 30,096 Replies: 7 | By Jeremy Geelan  When newsstands throughout America on Monday, March 27, started displaying the April 3 issue of Newsweek with its cover story about Web 2.0 - 'Putting the 'We' in Web' - it seems to me that we have reached one of Malcolm Gladwell's now-famous Tipping Points. May. 10, 2006 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 17,279 Replies: 9 | By Jeremy Geelan  AS well as examining the past comments about the prospects of an open-source Java by Jonathan Schwartz, now CEO of Sun, today's round-up of influencers and their opinions includes the thoughts of LinuxQuestions.org founder Jeremy Garcia. May. 5, 2006 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 18,297 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan Two years ago Rod Smith, IBM Software's VP of Emerging Technologies (and still with IBM today), wrote an open letter to Rob Gingell, Sun's Chief Engineer (now with Cassatt). IBM, Smith said, 'would like to work with Sun on an independent project to open source Java.' May. 4, 2006 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 57,694 Replies: 12 | By Jeremy Geelan 'The fact that there is so much discussion going on is of interest,' wrote Sun's John Clingan in his blog yesterday. The discussion is 'all over the map,' Clingan noted: 'Some like the idea of Open Source Java. Some think that will negatively affect WORA. There doesn't seem to be any g... May. 4, 2006 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 21,598 Replies: 4 | By Jeremy Geelan Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, according to the third of Sir Isaac Newton's laws of physics: if you push on anything, it pushes back on you. That's why if you lean against the wall, you don't just fall through it, and that's also why ESR's Open Letter to Scott McNealy... May. 4, 2006 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 43,278 Replies: 11 | By Jeremy Geelan 'Carefully done, open-sourcing [Java] could actually promote interoperability by making it easier for disparate groups to align behind one code base,' wrote Sun's James Gosling in his widely read java.net blog at the end of April 2004. May. 4, 2006 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 52,444 Replies: 26 | By Jeremy Geelan  Not since the formation of NATO in 1945 have four letters been combined to such effect, nor has any 4-letter acronym since then been the subject of such hyperbole. (Quod erat demonstrandum.) Apr. 27, 2006 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 39,822 Replies: 6 | By Jeremy Geelan Some weeks in any industry seem longer than others; as far as i-Technology industry goes, the week just ended seemed to last about a month. How else is one to explain how there can possibly have been room for all that happened, from the return to center-stage of Larry Ellison on the on... Apr. 22, 2006 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 15,963 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan Jeremy Geelan for SYS-CON.TV from the 'Real-World AJAX' seminar with Jesse James Garrett, Mr. 'Real-World AJAX' himself. Apr. 17, 2006 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 28,972 | By Jeremy Geelan The AjaxAnywhere project has made available its intial release - version 1.0. According to company sources, 'AjaxAnywhere turns any set of existing JSP components into AJAX-aware components without a complex JavaScript coding. Simply separate your web page into multiple zones, and use ... Apr. 12, 2006 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 47,267 Replies: 5 | By Jeremy Geelan  When Nicholas Carr posed the question 'Does IT Matter?' in his now-famous Harvard Business Review essay, he clearly knew that it would provoke discussion. He probably didn't know, on the other hand, that it would eventually cause the world's richest man - whose wealth is derived 100% f... Apr. 12, 2006 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 26,877 Replies: 4 | By Jeremy Geelan Bill Hilf, head of Microsoft's open-source and Linux lab, has just given a keynote address at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Boston about making proprietary programs such as those produced by Microsoft interoperate better with open source software. Apr. 5, 2006 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 15,195 Replies: 6 | By Jeremy Geelan  'Yes, I did say those things,' wrote James Gosling (pictured talking to SYS-CON.TV), as he blogged a detailed follow-up to the 'flamewar' that broke out after JDJ reported his answer to a question asked at a New York conference by our Enterprise Editor, Yakov Fain. According to Gosling... Mar. 27, 2006 02:30 PM EST Reads: 25,961 Replies: 11 | By Jeremy Geelan In the upcoming edition of Newsweek, dated April 3, the cover story features fledgling companies MySpace.com and Flickr and describes them as 'leading a charge of innovators making hay out of the Internet's ability to empower citizens and enrich those who help with the empowerment.' Th... Mar. 26, 2006 02:45 PM EST Reads: 27,127 | By Jeremy Geelan 'Linux is good at doing what other things already have done, but more cheaply - but can it do anything new?' That's the question asked by Steven Weber, a political scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, in an article in The Economist this week - one of the least useful ... Mar. 19, 2006 05:00 AM EST Reads: 20,934 Replies: 5 | By Jeremy Geelan 19 leading Internet companies have joined to ask the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to reconsider a decision that they say would deprive the .com domain registry of future competition, to the harm of all Internet users. Mar. 17, 2006 01:45 AM EST Reads: 21,545 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan 'Unlike Pascal,' said James Gosling last week, 'Java has actually got a career path that follows on from what you learn.' He was speaking during a SYS-CON.TV interview with SYS-CON Media's group publisher Jeremy Geelan. Mar. 12, 2006 06:45 AM EST Reads: 19,410 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan  We're not even at the end of the first quarter yet, and 2006 seems already to have brought with it as much change in the world of Internet technologies as all four quarters of 2005 combined. Despite the headline-grabbing mega-deals of '05, in '06 the mid-market is still the engine room... Mar. 8, 2006 06:00 PM EST Reads: 16,106 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  Almost anyone who writes about Internet technologies, or i-Technology in shorthand, runs into a problem area from time to time concerning the issue of what in the i-Technology world was invented by whom? Mar. 8, 2006 02:00 PM EST Reads: 18,957 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan 'One of the questions that comes up a lot when we're talking about Flex with web developers is 'How does this relate to AJAX?'' writes Ely Greenfield, a long time developer at Macromedia/now Adobe on the engineering team behind the design and development of the Flex SDK. Mar. 8, 2006 09:15 AM EST Reads: 25,324 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan  When a San Francisco web development company was on February 14 assigned a US patent covering the use of rich-media applications on the Internet, it was always going to be only a matter of time before the self-same Internet exploded with concern and astonishment. The company in questio... Mar. 4, 2006 10:15 AM EST Reads: 66,623 Replies: 10 | By Jeremy Geelan  If you want to learn AJAX you should probably buy a few books, buy an AJAX IDE, and go to a few training classes. But first, why not mingle with people that already know it, by visiting the very latest and fastest-growing AJAX website, http://ajax.sys-con.com - it's where the prime mov... Mar. 3, 2006 01:30 PM EST Reads: 33,684 Replies: 4 | By Jeremy Geelan Google is breathing down Microsoft's neck again. It has beta-launched Google Page Creator, which it describes as 'a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.' Bye bye Microsoft FrontPage! Feb. 23, 2006 01:30 PM EST Reads: 24,229 | By Jeremy Geelan  Thanks to the all-pervasiveness of Google News's searchbots, it has been discovered that CMP Media is making available - for free - on its website content that it did not originate. It is being branded by CMP as belonging to something itcalls the 'Dr Dobbs Journal Research Center' - on... Feb. 19, 2006 08:45 AM EST Reads: 24,880 Replies: 4 | By Jeremy Geelan  Every year for the past 10 years, SYS-CON Media's 'Readers' Choice Awards' have given the multiple constituencies we serve - developers, architects, IT managers, vendors - a chance to exercise their democratic rights, not just through the ballot box but also through the nomination proc... Feb. 11, 2006 02:45 PM EST Reads: 21,255 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan One of the 'inflexion points' of the development of the Web, when commentators and analysts draw breath for long enough to chronicle its history, is certain to be the day that Google, through first Gmail and then Google Maps, opened the eyes of millions to the fact that the Web can be ... Feb. 8, 2006 03:30 AM EST Reads: 32,677 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan 'Our relationship with Quest Software underscores our commitment to providing ASE customers with the best database management and optimization solutions available,' said Kathleen Schaub, VP of product marketing, Sybase Information Technology Solutions Group, as Sybase and Quest Softwar... Feb. 7, 2006 07:00 PM EST Reads: 22,119 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan Nexaweb has been seeing rapid RIA adoption in Japan, particularly in the financial industry, and so has entered into a strategic alliance with Hitachi Systems and Services, Ltd. (Hitachi Systems), one of the largest providers of systems integration services in Japan. Feb. 7, 2006 03:45 PM EST Reads: 27,618 Replies: 1 |
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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new 
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