By James Hamilton  Castro continued: "In Cuba we provide free health care, free food coupons, free housing and if we had any computers on the island, we would provide free laptops and Internet too. So, I agree with Richard Stallman that Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and all American companies pushing this new ... Sep. 30, 2008 08:00 PM Reads: 419 |
By James Hamilton These email spammers with fake gmail addresses are clearly breaking the law and I personally believe that they should be found and jailed. The last time I looked at my inbox I found more than 700 emails from these people who do not have real names, company websites or company emails. E... Sep. 30, 2008 08:00 PM Reads: 105 |
By James Hamilton  Michael Wolff, Rupert Murdoch's authorized biographer said during a CNBC interview on September 3, 2008 that the conservative media baron is quite embarrassed by Bill O'Reilly and by his Fox Television network, and he will vote for Senator Obama in the upcoming elections. CNBC's "Power... Sep. 30, 2008 06:45 PM Reads: 3,416 Replies: 1 |
By James Hamilton  Apparently, one of the most brilliant multi-billion dollar financial scams of this decade is unfolding as we speak, and one since Senator John MacCain's close friend Charles Keating puled one together in 1980s, who at the time stole roughly $8 billion and spent less than two years in j... Sep. 28, 2008 07:30 PM Reads: 1,076 |
By James Hamilton Her Dubai vacation was fully paid for by Dick Cheney's Dubai-based oil company Halliburton, which also sells $1,000 dollar-a piece-lobsters and Haagen Dazs ice cream to 250,000 troops in Iraq. The Iraq bill for taxpayers is currently running at $5 billion per month. If Sarah Palin is e... Sep. 20, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 1,991 |
By James Hamilton  The Democrats had their convention, followed by the Republicans. As VMware gets ready for its own convention, Microsoft has rained on their parade by holding its 'Get Virtual Now' Virtualization party one week ahead of VMware's. I am looking at the news headlines this morning and all I... Sep. 15, 2008 06:00 PM Reads: 1,773 |
By James Hamilton  David Marshall in his InfoWorld 'Virtualization Report' blog writes: 'Despite a sharp slowdown in U.S. business software spending, an April 2008 survey report from ChangeWave Research shows that virtualization may be spared as virtualization software spending has increased.' Marshall c... Sep. 12, 2008 09:00 PM Reads: 8,210 Replies: 2 |
By James Hamilton  This man who writes for CBS / CNet / ZDNet sounds like he is out of his mind. Not a single person among SYS-CON's management team has ever heard of his name, had any business relationship with him, or knows who this person is. He was never asked to write for SYS-CON, he was never consi... Sep. 11, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 617 |
By James Hamilton  SYS-CON Events' sales team replied to Scott Kelly's exhibitor inquiry, but when they never heard back from Scott, they decided to do a little Googling and here is what they found out. Mr Kelly is actually the 'Director of Product Management at TechTarget,' a technology media company th... Sep. 9, 2008 09:00 PM Reads: 2,545 Replies: 3 |
By James Hamilton  Associated Press reported this morning the launch of Cuil. IMHO, as much as the search results are displayed on a slick and 'cool' page, these guys have little or no chance to compete with Google but a real chance to be bought by Microsoft for 500 bucks before the end of this week. Wha... Aug. 8, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 3,056 Replies: 1 |
By James Hamilton SYS-CON Media ripped all Kontera links off of its website yesterday, after a brief trial period. SYS-CON's circulation manager Engin Sezici said: "It was not worth for us to mess up our Website and pages for the actual amount of revenue share we observed during the trial period. Google... Jul. 30, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 486 |
By James Hamilton Yesterday we read the news of B-hive's acquisition by VMware. Also this week Microsoft closed the Kidaro acquisition, which had been announced earlier in the year. Both of these companies participated in SYS-CON's second international Virtualization Conference & Expo last November in S... Jul. 25, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 11,972 |
By James Hamilton The New York Times quoted anonymous aides as saying they had urged McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman to stay away from each other prior to his failed presidential campaign in 2000. In its own follow-up story, The Washington Post quoted longtime aide John Weaver, who split with McCain la... Jul. 23, 2008 12:30 PM Reads: 6,276 Replies: 1 |
By James Hamilton  Brian Stevens, the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Red Hat, delivered his Virtualization Keynote 'The Future of the Virtual Enterprise' at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco. 'Virtualization is the hottest subject today,... Jul. 16, 2008 05:45 PM Reads: 46,977 |
By James Hamilton  Burris, who joined Sourcefire's board in March, is head of worldwide sales and services at Citrix Systems. Sourcefire CEO Wayne Jackson said in February that he would step down, with the company saying he was leaving to pursue other opportunities. In a statement, Sourcefire chairman Jo... Jun. 18, 2008 07:45 PM Reads: 3,453 Replies: 1 |
By James Hamilton as: Al Aghili (Managed Methods), Alan Chhabra (Egenera), Andi Mann (Enterprise Management Associates), Andrew Conte (APC), Andy Astor (EnterpriseDB), Ariel Cohen (Xsigo Systems), Bill O'Conell (IBM), Bob Lozano (Appistry), Bob Quinn (3Leaf Systems), Brian Martin (IBM), Carlo Innocenti ... Jun. 18, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 6,838 |
By James Hamilton Brian Stevens, the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Red Hat, delivered his Virtualization Keynote 'The Future of the Virtual Enterprise' at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco. 'Virtualization is the hottest subject today,... Jun. 5, 2008 12:30 AM Reads: 1,709 |
By James Hamilton Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo received stupid advice from their investment bank advisers and blew their chance to close the deal with Microsoft as of this Sunday morning. Neither Yang nor Filo are experts on how to sell a company in a multi-billion dollar deal. They have re... Jun. 4, 2008 05:15 PM Reads: 7,667 Replies: 1 |
By James Hamilton  Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management... May. 29, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 25,842 |
By James Hamilton  Friday morning the local Fox television station in New York City broke the news - Apple was suing New York City. Six out of 100 of their viewers thought Apple had the right to sue the City, but 94 out of 100 viewers are now calling for New Yorkers to drop Apple and its products, includ... May. 27, 2008 09:15 PM Reads: 22,433 Replies: 2 |
By James Hamilton This man, whose name is Keith Ward, should be fired from his job for basic incompetence as the editor of a magazine, and here's why. He posts a blog entry on May 6, 2008, in which he writes: 'Virtualization Journal, coming in second, declares itself the winner,' and he continues 'I hav... May. 22, 2008 08:15 AM Reads: 4,196 |
By James Hamilton  The Ubuntu Linux-based gOS operating system from Good OS LLC (www.thinkgos.com) includes so many Google applications like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google News Google Maps and YouTube that it's often referred to as the Google operating system. It also includes Firefox, Skype... May. 7, 2008 04:45 PM Reads: 33,818 Replies: 10 |
By James Hamilton  So, the geniuses in Chatsworth, California, who picked up the remains of Fawcette Technical Publications from the bank in Virginia, and the remains of 101 Communications, another platform play that went seriously south, sat down in a room this afternoon and said 'What is SYS-CON up to ... May. 7, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 8,777 |
By James Hamilton AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, March 18-20, 2008, in New York City will provide an overview of Canoo's RIA technology as compared to its other European competitors. Upcoming AJAXWorld Conference is demonstrating a stronger interest and participation from delegates around Europe. Canoo an... Feb. 5, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 5,017 Replies: 1 |
By James Hamilton Since we last looked at the SOA marketplace this past April, BEA has finally found its match, in spite of their fearless leader and leftover CEO. After the ORACLE / BEA news we now read rumors that TIBCO may be the next target; perhaps Microsoft should be taking a good look at them so ... Jan. 18, 2008 07:30 PM Reads: 7,641 Replies: 1 |
By James Hamilton Trolltech, Acrodea, ETRI, Huawei and Purple Labs have joined the LiMo Foundation started a year ago by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone to deliver a mobile Linux platform. Said platform would perforce have to compete against t... Jan. 12, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 8,389 |
By James Hamilton Any software company headquartered in the United States whose 'About' paragraph contains the three magic letters 'S,' 'O,' and 'A' is either currently negotiating the terms of a deal or getting ready to walk pretty on the auction block to meet their happy highest bidder. I don't believ... Jan. 6, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 33,819 |
By James Hamilton Red Hat is losing market share to VMware according to Wall Street analyst Katherine Egbert of Jefferies & Co, who downgraded Red Hat's stock Monday. She says Linux isn't needed to replace Unix, that Windows and VMware are more prevalent, and that Red Hat's going to have to diversify aw... Dec. 26, 2007 06:45 AM Reads: 8,377 |
By James Hamilton  For building applications, BundleWorks includes ant tasks and command line tools to allow developers to build standard bundles for both custom and third-party applications. For testing, BundleWorks allows a developer to create and manage multiple environments to test multiple versions ... Dec. 5, 2007 01:30 PM Reads: 22,758 Replies: 1 |
By James Hamilton A critical part of Sun's virtualization portfolio, Sun xVM Ops Center reduces datacenter management complexity by combining a range of lifecycle management functionality into an all-in-one tool. Sun xVM Ops Center helps simplify discovery, monitoring, operating system provisioning, com... Dec. 4, 2007 11:15 AM Reads: 11,886 Replies: 1 |
By James Hamilton Why are you opening private message directed to someone else? This is a private message not directed or intended for you. As I'm a long time member of the HR community - shame on you! Eileen Sirrell Dec. 4, 2007 10:15 AM Reads: 6,761 |
By James Hamilton The study contains two parts: an in-depth examination of the online customer experience and an in-depth examination of technical quality or 'service levels' (site responsiveness and site reliability) of the leading news Web sites including AOL News, CNN, FOX News, Google News, MSNBC, U... Dec. 2, 2007 03:45 PM Reads: 14,881 Replies: 1 |
By James Hamilton VS 2008 can also be used to build AJAX-based web apps. It can be used to target multiple versions of software like existing .NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 programs and continue to deploy them on .NET 2.0 machines. .NET Framework 3.5 supports Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Wor... Dec. 2, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 16,673 |
By James Hamilton Keynote Competitive Research announced Europe's first performance index for the mobile Web. The Keynote Europe Mobile Index is a weekly performance ranking of 10 popular European mobile sites compiled from more than 26,000 measurements taken on multiple carriers from different geograph... Nov. 21, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 9,335 |
By James Hamilton Oracle owns PeopleSoft and JD Edwards; they own SleepyCat; they own BEA; and of course they have their own enterprise database. This means they have the stack from top to bottom, with the exception of an operating system. They can take the CRM and banking and insurance and end-user app... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 22,887 |
By James Hamilton  Here are my thoughts on this. I was expecting Alfred - who is known to be an arrogant and incompetent CEO - to run away from Larry as fast as he could. But this movie usually ends as follows. First, history repeats itself. By that I mean that Alfred should remember Larry's PeopleSoft h... Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 25,140 |
By James Hamilton I think Larry should just buy Red Hat for cash and no questions asked. Forget BEA and forget TIBCO. Larry should take a week off after this week's OracleWorld and get back to his office in his yacht, and type up his next press release (which is saved in his laptop as a form letter anyw... Nov. 13, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 11,763 Replies: 3 |
By James Hamilton  WSO2, the open source SOA company, announced at the SOA World Conference & Expo, that it has significantly extended the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to support the heterogeneous, enterprise-scale demands of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The WSO2 ESB 1.5 adds the ability t... Nov. 12, 2007 06:45 PM Reads: 12,588 |
By James Hamilton Oracle OpenWorld will open tomorrow in San Francisco with 45,000 people in attendance, a far bigger crowd even than CA's New Orleans cruise ship hotel accommodation days. I saw the photo below in my friend Ian Thain's blog entry from this afternoon. The city says they closed off one of... Nov. 11, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 8,259 Replies: 1 |
By James Hamilton Red Hat, which has made its fortune displacing Solaris, is now going to collaborate with Sun to advance open source Java, which Red Hat is particularly partial to given its JBoss investment. This is the third time this year that Sun has laid down with one of its enemies. It also cut d... Nov. 9, 2007 09:30 AM Reads: 16,949 Replies: 1 |
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James Hamilton is a Search Engine Optimization consultant and an i-technology blogger based in Sydney, Australia. He occasionally blogs about SOA, mergers and acquisitions, open source and bleeding-edge technologies, companies, and personalities. James can be reached at hamilton(at)sys-con.com. 
