Leveraging the power of the latest web technologies to “wow” the user
If you’re old enough to have used an IBM 3270 “green screen” or even MS-DOS at some point in your career, you know the exact opposite of elegant presentation.   While enterprise software evolved from inconsistency and poor design through to client/server architectures and ultimately [...]

If you think Google created Android because it wants to compete in the mobile phone market, think again.
Delivering rich, interactive content to you, consistently, whether you’re using a desktop computer or wireless mobile phone is Google’s agenda. With great influence on the mobile device’s operating environment (a la Android), Google can more specifically control [...]

With Google Wave, the venerable web company is charting the course of new web-based application design, this time in the area of collaboration.  If you ever wondered what the intersection of next-generation email, blogging, instant messaging, and wiki-like collaboration might look like all inside a browser, this new open source project is for you.  You [...]

Today’s announcement that Jaspersoft has taken to full production its newest JasperForge community  web site is much more important to open source than the amount of likely fanfare it will generate.
When we originally envisioned a new Forge platform that would enable the types of collaboration and networking required for the most advanced community development, this [...]

Today’s announcement that SpringSource is acquiring Hyperic is a solid step forward for open source software.  Not only will the combination of these company’s products and technologies yield greater advantages for a larger and needing market of developers and IT professionals, but the combined company size will portend additional leadership at a key time in [...]

You may be surprised to know that SAP is providing compelling proof that open source software is the better model, particularly in this troubled economy.  In case you haven’t followed the recent reporting and intrigue from the world of SAP, I’ll provide a summary.
Like all aged, proprietary software mega-vendors, SAP’s software license growth has slowed [...]