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Jeremy Geelan
Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, of the all-new Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, of the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV. |
Java Developers: 'Just Do
It!' By Jeremy Geelan  September is here and
since the name comes from
the Latin septem, for
'seven' - September
having been until 153 BCE
not the ninth but the
seventh month of the
Roman calendar - I have
no hesitation in saying
that it's an appropriate
month to pluck just seven
items ... Sep. 19, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 18,410 | What's Next For Palm OS?
Is Its Future
Linux-Based, and in
China? By Jeremy Geelan So, will ACCESS kill off
the Palm OS, once it owns
PalmSource? Or will it
keep it going, and maybe
even restart Cobalt,
originally touted by
PalmSource as being
'designed from the ground
up to enable new classes
of smartphones'? And what
of Linux, what's the
story there? Sep. 11, 2005 02:30 PM Reads: 16,418 | Technology Giants Help in
Katrina Aftermath By Jeremy Geelan Not since the Asian
tsunami disaster have so
many companies rushed to
show corporate America at
its best: united in the
desire to alleviate the
suffering of victims of
Hurricane Katrina.
SYS-CON's various news
desks continue to bring
word of the latest
companies t... Sep. 7, 2005 04:30 AM Reads: 27,008 | FlashPaper 2: Converting
Printable Files into SWF
or PDF File Format By Jeremy Geelan  FlashPaper - ideal for
Microsoft Office users
who need to create Flash
documents and PDFs - lets
users generate
Flash-viewable documents
with a single click.
Anyone can create
FlashPaper files from
inside Microsoft Office
products Word, Excel and
PowerPoint withou... Aug. 19, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 28,220 Replies: 3 | It's Official: Welcome to
the 'Technology Bounce
Back' By Jeremy Geelan  All the myriad
commentators who monitor
Internet technologies and
the i-Technology
companies on the NASDAQ
doubtless have their own
private cluster of
indicators that they use
to take a weather-check
on the overall state of
the industry. For some,
it's as simple a... Aug. 10, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 31,820 Replies: 2 | Flashback to '03:
Exclusive WBT Interview
with Tim Donahue,
President & CEO, Nextel
Communications, Inc. By Jeremy Geelan What does the CEO of
Nextel Communications,
Inc., have in common with
Malcolm Gladwell, the
professor of sociology
and technology visionary?
The answer is a firm
belief in the notion of
the existence of 'tipping
points.' Aug. 4, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 15,614 | Sun Did It in 1986;
Microsoft Took Longer By Jeremy Geelan  Who do you suppose
registered their
corporate Internet domain
name first: Microsoft,
Oracle, or Sun? The
answer is Sun; it did so
in 1986. When in the
early 1980s Dr. David
Mills, John Postel,
Zaw-Sing Su, and Dr. Paul
Mockapetris were all
involved in the
develo... Jul. 18, 2005 01:30 PM Reads: 28,222 Replies: 1 | An Exclusive Interview
With Mike Milinkovich Of
Eclipse Foundation By Jeremy Geelan  First, the importance of
adding companies such as
BEA, Borland, and
Computer Associates to
our board cannot be
overstated. Each of these
companies competes
fiercely with IBM in the
marketplace. Each is
making million dollar
plus investments in
Eclipse ($250,000 pe... Jul. 18, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 33,984 Replies: 1 | From JavaOne to JavaTen By Jeremy Geelan  Technology birthdays come
and go, but Internet
technologies, by their
very nature, aren't old
enough to allow yet for
centenaries, or even
diamond anniversaries. So
it is fascinating to see
how people are reacting
to the fact that popular
technologies like Java,
C... Jun. 29, 2005 10:15 AM Reads: 32,096 Replies: 2 | Macromedia-Adobe: Bigness
Sure Ain't Badness... By Jeremy Geelan In the world or
architecture, as many of
the designers among MX
Developer's Journal's
readership are well
aware, there's a
wonderfully erudite
theory, with a equally
wonderfully dumb name:
Bigness. May. 18, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 32,762 Replies: 2 | i-Technology Blogging
Begins at Home By Jeremy Geelan When we opened up the JDJ
domain to bloggers
everywhere, we knew the
take-up would be good.
But one thing we couldn't
be certain about in
advance was whether the
blogs themselves would be
any good. We needn't have
worried. As many of you
will already have found
ou... May. 17, 2005 08:45 PM Reads: 29,924 | Storage + Security: Now a
Major Technology "Sweet
Spot" By Jeremy Geelan Now that storage
professionals are obliged
to know more about
security and security
professionals have to
know more about storage,
Information Storage +
Security Journal is
coming into its own just
as we knew it would. All
the articles in ISSJ are
written by ackno... May. 3, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 15,395 | "Mergermania" Isn't Just
Back - It's Back With a
Vengeance By Jeremy Geelan When in October of last
year I asked the
rhetorical question 'Is
Mergermania Back?' (JDJ,
Vol. 9, issue 10), there
wasn't much doubt that it
already was, but it took
until last month to truly
demonstrate just to what
extent. It's not just
back; in March we saw
it'... Apr. 9, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 45,122 Replies: 14 | Flash Video From the
Inside By Jeremy Geelan Is Flash video 'The Big
One' for Macromedia or is
it just another
rich-application goodie
among its host of
offerings? Chris Hock
talks exclusively to MX
Developer's Journal about
Flash video and begins by
situating Flash video in
the overall spectrum of
Macromedi... Mar. 17, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 33,683 Replies: 3 | XP: eXtremely
Provocative? By Jeremy Geelan In a world bristling with
TLAs (Three-Letter
Acronyms), it's
interesting that one
acronym that has often
caused an upset in the
world of software
development should be one
containing just two
letters: XP. (No, not
*that* XP. What we're
talking about here is XP
a... Mar. 9, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 28,092 Replies: 18 | Open Source, Open Sesame? By Jeremy Geelan As Sun open-sources
Solaris, and another
software development
'community' is tugged
into being around it,
critics are saying - Red
Hat's general counsel
Mark Webbink in
particular - that the
strategy will fail. Feb. 10, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 26,929 | An A-Z of Security and
Storage By Jeremy Geelan Spare a thought for the
compilers of dictionaries
in the Digital Age.
Technology is always
moving beyond the
confines of the alphabet.
If you were given only 26
choices, for example,
what would you list as
the chief concerns of IT
professionals today? Feb. 3, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 16,101 | Who's Missing From
SYS-CON's i-Technology
Top Twenty? By Jeremy Geelan No sooner had we begun
our reader-driven quest
for the top twenty
software people in the
world than - by popular
acclaim, as they say -
we're going to extend the
field to choose
from...from forty to over
a hundred. Here we bring
you a sneak peek at the
sixty conte... Dec. 22, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 55,147 Replies: 23 | The i-Technology Right
Stuff By Jeremy Geelan Our search for the Twenty
Top Software People in
the World is nearing
completion. In the
SYS-CON tradition of
empowering readers, we
are leaving the final
'cut' to you, so here are
the top 40 nominations in
alphabetical order. Our
aim this time round is to
whittle... Dec. 21, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 249,564 Replies: 151 | An A-Z of Security and
Storage By Jeremy Geelan Spare a thought for the
compilers of dictionaries
in the Digital Age.
Technology is always
moving beyond the
confines of the alphabet. Dec. 15, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,905 | Providing a Complete Data
Services Layer By Jeremy Geelan For those involved in the
maintenance and
programming of databases,
object-relational (O/R)
mapping and TopLink have
been almost synonymous
for 10 years. An
innovator in the ORM
space for an entire
decade, TopLink was
started in 1994 as an
independent company and ... Dec. 8, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 31,243 | Last Exclusive JDJ
Interview With "IBM's"
John A. Swainson, Now
CA's Newly Appointed CEO By Jeremy Geelan Swainson: 'Let's start by
defining 'on demand.'
First, on demand reflects
what our customers are
doing with their
businesses - streamlining
their business processes
to make them more
flexible and adaptive to
new markets and
opportunities. They use
information tech... Nov. 23, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 53,324 Replies: 8 | Novell CEO Messman
Postpones Gupta
Appointment By Jeremy Geelan Who Is David Litwack?
Litwack is responsible
for the development and
advancement of Novell's
secure Web services
strategy, a position he
assumed in July 2002
following Novell's
acquisition of
SilverStream Software, a
company for which he'd
served as president and ... Nov. 23, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 45,849 Replies: 7 | Sung and Unsung
i-Technology Heroes By Jeremy Geelan When I asked in a
previous editorial who
the Top Twenty Software
People in the World were,
I knew there would be a
widely divergent response
from readers. As
promised, here's a
preliminary update on the
identity of some of your
nominees. Nov. 8, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 34,078 Replies: 1 | Application Servers to
Vie for Top Position in
Boston Shoot-Out By Jeremy Geelan Which application server
will be found to most
resilient and flexible?
And which most secure? It
didn't take long for the
enterprise software
community to start
discussing the
'Application Server
Shootout' outlined this
week by SYS-CON Media as
it tapped Burton Gr... Oct. 13, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 23,917 Replies: 3 | The Future of Cellphone
Software By Jeremy Geelan DoCoMo Communications
Laboratories USA was
established in 1999 in
Silicon Valley by NTT
DoCoMo, the leading
wireless data and
application service
provider in the world.
Its mission is to explore
innovative applications
and related frontier
technologies for
next-... Oct. 12, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 25,025 | i-Technology Viewpoint:
Is Mergermania Back? By Jeremy Geelan Hurricanes Ivan, Charley,
and Frances
notwithstanding,
sometimes being in the
eye of the storm has its
advantages. At SYS-CON
Media, where we by
definition dwell at the
epicenter of what might
be called the
i-technology weather
cycle, our central
position allows... Oct. 6, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 48,693 Replies: 1 | Outsourcing "Has Been
Going On Forever" -
Intel's CEO By Jeremy Geelan 'The media has discovered
outsourcing,' says
Intel's CEO Craig Barrett
in a recent interview,
'or maybe the politicians
have discovered
outsourcing, but it's
been going on forever as
far as I know.' Intel,
Barrett says, has had
about 40 percent of its
employees ou... Sep. 27, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 16,241 Replies: 2 | Red Hat vs Sun Battle of
Words Heats Up By Jeremy Geelan 'We are not bizarro
numbskull anti-Sun
conspiracy theorists,'
writes Red Hat's Michael
Tiemann, in response to a
remark last week by Sun's
president and COO
Jonathan Schwartz. 'If
you won't open source
Java,' Tiemann continues,
'why should customers
believe what y... Sep. 26, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 28,032 Replies: 5 | Wanted: 19 More of the
Top Software People in
the World By Jeremy Geelan For over a decade, Tim
Bray, one of the prime
movers of XML, managed
the Oxford English
Dictionary project at the
University of Waterloo.
That was from 1988 to
1999. During the end of
his time there he
launched one of the first
public Web search engines
(in 1995),... Sep. 7, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 37,537 Replies: 1 | "Application Server
Shoot-Out" at Upcoming
Web Services Edge
Conference Announced By Jeremy Geelan SYS-CON Media is inviting
BEA, Borland, IBM, JBoss,
JOnAS, Macromedia,
Microsoft, Oracle, Orion,
Sun, and Sybase to an
'Application Server
Shoot-Out' at the
upcoming Web Services
Edge Conference & Expo,
in Boston next February.
The shootout will be a
live competit... Aug. 18, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 42,071 Replies: 14 | Linus' Top Ten SCO Barbs By Jeremy Geelan  Recent 'Linux Quote of
the Week' may have been
vintage Torvalds, but
isn't the best thing
Linus has ever said about
SCO - says Kevin Mack,
whose has his own Top
Ten. We bring it to you
here. One LinuxWorld
reader comments: 'Linus
has a gift of saying what
we all a... Aug. 16, 2004 03:15 PM Reads: 162,810 Replies: 34 | i-Technology Viewpoint:
"Java is Back!" By Jeremy Geelan What do a CNET technology
columnist, 95.5 million
telephone handsets, and
Sun's president and COO
all have in common?
Answer: they all strongly
favor Java. Is it a sign
of better times ahead for
the language once known
as 'Oak'? Aug. 12, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 113,677 Replies: 122 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Dr. Adam Kolowa, Parasoft By Jeremy Geelan SYS-CON Radio interviews
Dr. Adam Kolawa, CEO,
chairman, and a cofounder
of Parasoft, live at the
LinuxWorld Conference &
Expo 2004 in San
Francisco about AEP,
'automated error
protection' and how it
significantly improves
the software development
process. Aug. 10, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,550 | Putting the 'i' Back in
i-Technology By Jeremy Geelan Ever since Nicholas G.
Carr's now historic
Harvard Business Review
article, 'IT Doesn't
Matter,' published in the
May 2003 edition of HBR,
it was only a matter of
time before the wider
world caught up with
Carr's thesis. The
article formed only a
small part of Car... Aug. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 20,971 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Jon Prial, IBM By Jeremy Geelan SYS-CON Radio interviews
IBM's Jon Prial, VP of
Marketing and Strategy,
DB2 Information
Management, live at the
LinuxWorld Conference &
Expo 2004 in San
Francisco about this
week's headline-making
IBM Cloudscape
announcement. Aug. 4, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,263 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Mike DeNeffe, Wyse
Technology By Jeremy Geelan SYS-CON Radio interviews
the Senior Director of
Wyse Technology's Winterm
product line, Mike
DeNeffe, live at the
LinuxWorld Conference &
Expo 2004 in San
Francisco about the
fast-growing emerging
market for Linux thin
clients. Aug. 4, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 16,106 | SYS-CON Radio interviews
Ranajit Nevatia, VERITAS
Software By Jeremy Geelan SYS-CON Radio interviews
Ranajit Nevatia, VERITAS
Software's Director of
Linux Strategy, live at
the LinuxWorld Conference
& Expo 2004 in San
Francisco about a wide
range of aspects of the
current 'state of the
union' in the Linux
space. Aug. 4, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 14,689 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Ben Williams, AMD By Jeremy Geelan SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Ben Williams, VP of AMD's
Enterprise
Server/Workstation
Business Microprocessor
Business Unit, live at
the LinuxWorld Conference
& Expo 2004 in San
Francisco about AMD's
remarkable rise and rise
and the company's highly
active global role... Aug. 4, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,118 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Doug Levin, Black Duck
Software By Jeremy Geelan SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Black Duck Software's CEO
and President, Doug
Levin, live at the
LinuxWorld Conference &
Expo 2004 in San
Francisco about Black
Duck's unusual niche
activity and its
word-of-mouth success
strategy. Aug. 4, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 13,787 |
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