Oracle – on which as many fortunes hang these days as depended on its ancient namesakes – came in with fiscal Q3 earnings down 10% year-over-year at $1.2 billion, or 23 cents a share, Thursday on revenues up 17% to $6.47 billion. The revenues beat Wall Street estimates of $6.34 billion as did Oracle’s non-GAAP earnings, which were up 9% to $1.9 billion, or 38 cents a share, a penny better than consensus. Evidently enterprise spending is coming back. Oracle said its all-important new software license revenues were up for a second quarter in a row, this time by 13% to $1.7 billion – higher than expected – and up 10%, beating guidance, to $1.7 billion excluding Sun, which it finally acquired on January 26. Without Sun, it said, its total GAAP revenue was up 7%.
What? You don’t speak Russian? Not even “baby” Russian? French? Spanish? Indonesian? Korean? Chinese? If you’ve traveled you’ve probably picked up a few words here and there but it’s unlikely you are, at this point, fluent in any of the world’s languages excepting English. Luckily most other people in the world speak English better than you speak their language so you should get along just fine. Unfortunately for folks stuck in the data center, most of their network and application network devices don’t have even that much in common. If you immediately thought “Hey, they have IP and TCP and HTTP in common” then think again. IP and TCP and even HTTP today are used as transport protocols, not data exchange formats. Your voice and the written word are IP and TCP and HTTP, but the actual data being exchanged? That’s where the difference between English and Russian comes in and rears its ugly head. (Well, there and at bedtime when you’re trying to explain to two non-English speaking girls it’s time to sleep.)
What? You don’t speak Russian? Not even “baby” Russian? French? Spanish? Indonesian? Korean? Chinese? If you’ve traveled you’ve probably picked up a few words here and there but it’s unlikely you are, at this point, fluent in any of the world’s languages excepting English. Luckily most other people in the world speak English better than you speak their language so you should get along just fine. Unfortunately for folks stuck in the data center, most of their network and application network devices don’t have even that much in common. If you immediately thought “Hey, they have IP and TCP and HTTP in common” then think again. IP and TCP and even HTTP today are used as transport protocols, not data exchange formats. Your voice and the written word are IP and TCP and HTTP, but the actual data being exchanged? That’s where the difference between English and Russian comes in and rears its ugly head. (Well, there and at bedtime when you’re trying to explain to two non-English speaking girls it’s time to sleep.)
Fusion Garage announced that its category-creating joojoo Internet tablet has begun shipping from the factory today. joojoo devices are now on their way to U.S. customers who pre-ordered them. Devices should be received by Monday, March 29. New joojoo orders can be placed at https://thejoojoo.com/store at a cost of $499 USD. With its easy to use user interface, joojoo allows users to tap into Internet applications, news, music, high definition video, social media and Web services. The device boasts the largest capacitive touch screen of any device on the market, measuring 12.1 inches in length. joojoo is Flash 10.1 and Java compliant and comes equipped with a built-in, rechargeable lithium-polymer battery.
Fusion Garage announced that its category-creating joojoo Internet tablet has begun shipping from the factory today. joojoo devices are now on their way to U.S. customers who pre-ordered them. Devices should be received by Monday, March 29. New joojoo orders can be placed at https://thejoojoo.com/store at a cost of $499 USD. With its easy to use user interface, joojoo allows users to tap into Internet applications, news, music, high definition video, social media and Web services. The device boasts the largest capacitive touch screen of any device on the market, measuring 12.1 inches in length. joojoo is Flash 10.1 and Java compliant and comes equipped with a built-in, rechargeable lithium-polymer battery.
We just released JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse version 1.2.3. This release comes with bug fixing and few minor features. That's basically our plan for the near future, release often (2 weeks release cycle) with bug fixing and minor features. If there is anything you want us to add, please put it on the forum or [...]
We just released JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse version 1.2.3. This release comes with bug fixing and few minor features. That's basically our plan for the near future, release often (2 weeks release cycle) with bug fixing and minor features. If there is anything you want us to add, please put it on the forum or [...]
Well, online media businesses should beware. Media moved on to "new media" and TechTarget's media technology is last century. Look at our Cloud Expo home page! The content on this page is self-generating through our Ulitzer engine. The best content on Cloud Computing and it's all in autopilot. We invested around $1m in the underlying technology of Ulitzer and what we offer with it is the next-generation of online media.
Well, online media businesses should beware. Media moved on to "new media" and TechTarget's media technology is last century. Look at our Cloud Expo home page! The content on this page is self-generating through our Ulitzer engine. The best content on Cloud Computing and it's all in autopilot. We invested around $1m in the underlying technology of Ulitzer and what we offer with it is the next-generation of online media.
I just read an interesting interview with Steve Mills, IBM’s top executive of its software business, by “The Intelligent Enterprise” magazine. Steve is a very capable and intelligent executive at IBM. He has been at the helm of the software business since the early 1990s – that will be almost 20 years. Under his leadership, IBM’s software business has grown significantly, contributing the largest part of IBM’s bottom line. He ushered in the era of acquisitions to expand the software product and solutions portfolio – Lotus, Filenet, Cognos, Tivoli, SPSS, Informix, Rational, and many others. The debate always has been about IBM not getting into the application business like SAP or Oracle. IBM has chosen to stay out of ERP/CRM application space and focus much more on the infrastructure pieces – database, middleware, systems management, business process, and analytics. Nobody comes close to IBM’s deep expertise on DBMS and transaction management software. All of these technologies were pioneered by IBM from the 1970s onwards. The Turing award winners for both DBMS (late Dr. Ted Codd) and transaction management (late Dr. Jim Gray) did their seminal work while at IBM. Where IBM faltered during the early days was in its lack of focus on software, being the biggest hardware company. But that all changed during Steve’s leadership.
Just over one week away from the launch of the Apple iPad, Sybase has announced the results of a survey on mobile device usage, commissioned by Sybase and conducted by Zogby International. The survey, which was compiled from an online survey of 2443 adults with a mobile phone, 770 of which own smart phones, uncovered that the #1 reason U.S. consumers would use a device such as the Apple iPad is for working on the go.
Just over one week away from the launch of the Apple iPad, Sybase has announced the results of a survey on mobile device usage, commissioned by Sybase and conducted by Zogby International. The survey, which was compiled from an online survey of 2443 adults with a mobile phone, 770 of which own smart phones, uncovered that the #1 reason U.S. consumers would use a device such as the Apple iPad is for working on the go.
3rd Generation outsourcing is here! 1st Generation was “your mess for less”; 2nd Generation is strategic or selective sourcing, including hosting. 3rd Generation Outsourcing, as a result of the emergence of Cloud Computing, stands to materially revolutionize and challenge traditional outsourcing models like no previous models have. The Cloud also delivers an opportunity for the wider adoption of existing enterprise applications in a SaaS model. This General Session by Virtual Ark's Founder, President & & CEO will challenge your traditional views of outsourcing, cloud security, SaaS and adoption of public cloud services by Fortune 1000 companies globally.
3rd Generation outsourcing is here! 1st Generation was “your mess for less”; 2nd Generation is strategic or selective sourcing, including hosting. 3rd Generation Outsourcing, as a result of the emergence of Cloud Computing, stands to materially revolutionize and challenge traditional outsourcing models like no previous models have. The Cloud also delivers an opportunity for the wider adoption of existing enterprise applications in a SaaS model. This General Session by Virtual Ark's Founder, President & & CEO will challenge your traditional views of outsourcing, cloud security, SaaS and adoption of public cloud services by Fortune 1000 companies globally.
Data accumulation rates are growing astronomically and managing data in traditional ways is getting difficult in the same proportion. Hadoop is emerging as a champion in large-scale data management needs; however, it requires a lot of IT infrastructure investment & expertise. Cloud-based Hadoop deployments offer multi-fold efficiencies and benefits. Hadoop oin cloud provides on-demand computing, operational scalability, efficiency, cost etc, local access to large data.
Data accumulation rates are growing astronomically and managing data in traditional ways is getting difficult in the same proportion. Hadoop is emerging as a champion in large-scale data management needs; however, it requires a lot of IT infrastructure investment & expertise. Cloud-based Hadoop deployments offer multi-fold efficiencies and benefits. Hadoop oin cloud provides on-demand computing, operational scalability, efficiency, cost etc, local access to large data.
Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) provides a user-friendly interface for single sign-on. IWA uses ‘Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism’ (SPNEGO) to allow the initiators and acceptors to negotiate the underlying protocol to be used for authentication. In this article, we will discuss how to enable SPENGO to support single sign-on for a two-tier web based application using the popular Spring framework. Even though we only focus on a two-tier application, there are multiple places in these two tiers that SPNEGO needs to be enabled. At the client side, we need the client code to require the use of the SPNEGO protocol; we need to enable the Spring HTTP Invoker to use the HTTP 4.0.1 client, which needs to be SPNEGO enabled. At the server side, we need to configure the application server to support SPNEGO and we need to secure the Spring web application using SPNEGO protocol.
Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) provides a user-friendly interface for single sign-on. IWA uses ‘Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism’ (SPNEGO) to allow the initiators and acceptors to negotiate the underlying protocol to be used for authentication. In this article, we will discuss how to enable SPENGO to support single sign-on for a two-tier web based application using the popular Spring framework. Even though we only focus on a two-tier application, there are multiple places in these two tiers that SPNEGO needs to be enabled. At the client side, we need the client code to require the use of the SPNEGO protocol; we need to enable the Spring HTTP Invoker to use the HTTP 4.0.1 client, which needs to be SPNEGO enabled. At the server side, we need to configure the application server to support SPNEGO and we need to secure the Spring web application using SPNEGO protocol.
Cloud Expo sponsor Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry, today announced from SXSW 2010 the launch of Rackspace Media Services. This Enterprise-level solution will provide an open source, direct-to-consumer (D2C) web infrastructure for music recording labels and other media segments that need to accelerate content delivery online, scale rapidly to respond to fan demand, and create new revenue streams. Artists' websites are becoming increasingly complex with eCommerce, user generated content, social media and custom applications, forcing record labels to act as IT “experts” and distracting them from their core business. As a result, many artists are turning to third-party digital solution providers for online music distribution, merchandise sales and concert ticket promotion - cutting record labels off from significant revenue and branding opportunities.
Cloud Expo sponsor Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry, today announced from SXSW 2010 the launch of Rackspace Media Services. This Enterprise-level solution will provide an open source, direct-to-consumer (D2C) web infrastructure for music recording labels and other media segments that need to accelerate content delivery online, scale rapidly to respond to fan demand, and create new revenue streams. Artists' websites are becoming increasingly complex with eCommerce, user generated content, social media and custom applications, forcing record labels to act as IT “experts” and distracting them from their core business. As a result, many artists are turning to third-party digital solution providers for online music distribution, merchandise sales and concert ticket promotion - cutting record labels off from significant revenue and branding opportunities.
I had an interesting conversation with our Test Automation team lead Stefan – who Andi interviewed for our “Eating our own Dog Food ” article – on his experiences with the willingness of developers to write performance tests. I asked a provocative question: do developers really want to write them in the first place? First he smiled but then he said that they do. I honestly was a bit surprised because in my own experience as a developer was that I rather wanted to write code instead of tests.
I had an interesting conversation with our Test Automation team lead Stefan – who Andi interviewed for our “Eating our own Dog Food ” article – on his experiences with the willingness of developers to write performance tests. I asked a provocative question: do developers really want to write them in the first place? First he smiled but then he said that they do. I honestly was a bit surprised because in my own experience as a developer was that I rather wanted to write code instead of tests.
Development of enterprise Flex/Java rich Internet applications benefits from using automated data integration solutions and productivity tools. Currently Adobe offers LiveCycle Data Services ES2 (LCDS) and open source BlazeDS 3. While LCDS is certainly a great piece of software for those who are looking to support thousands concurrent users via the most efficient communication protocols, its high licensing cost makes LCDS not affordable for the vast majority of the enterprise applications let alone small businesses and startups.
Development of enterprise Flex/Java rich Internet applications benefits from using automated data integration solutions and productivity tools. Currently Adobe offers LiveCycle Data Services ES2 (LCDS) and open source BlazeDS 3. While LCDS is certainly a great piece of software for those who are looking to support thousands concurrent users via the most efficient communication protocols, its high licensing cost makes LCDS not affordable for the vast majority of the enterprise applications let alone small businesses and startups.
SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc. and a provider of Java application infrastructure and management, has unveiled a new website, TomcatExpert.com, a professionally managed Apache Tomcat resource library and community. Developers, system administrators and web operations professionals that develop and operate Apache Tomcat can now obtain information from both committers and recognized leaders of Apache Tomcat. TomcatExpert.com was created by SpringSource, the leading provider of support, training and services for Apache technologies, including Apache Tomcat. The website is operated by development operations experts inside SpringSource and includes content from various experts across multiple industries. TomcatExpert.com is expected to be the single best resource for developers and operators who are running Apache Tomcat in large scale production environments. In addition to a deep knowledgebase of articles, this site includes discussions surrounding best practices, troubleshooting and the technology applications of the Apache Tomcat application server.