Tim Negris has been a product executive at Sybase, Oracle and IBM, a strategy consultant to Dell, HP and Sarnoff Labs, a database and language standards wonk on ANSI, XOpen, and TPPC committees, and is a software innovator in collaborative web technology.
Adobe’s release last week of its AIR 1.0 (Adobe Integrated Runtime)
cross-platform platform got plenty of ink. Much of it missed the point.
And that’s understandable, given that we are tumbling into the next
generation of everything all at once right now – SaaS and SOA, Web 2.0,
Blu-ray, cellular streaming, and on and on – like a tornado crossing a
junkyard. It’s one of those times when it’s hard to keep things
straight.
So Adobe’s AIR announcement roiled the swamp and raised the themes of
rich Internet applications, offline Internet applications, and cross-platform
runtimes in a wormy bundle. In the process it was lumped together, variously,
with Google Gears, Mozilla Prism, Sun JavaFX and Microsoft Silverlight in the
Air cover... (more)
A Google News search for Microsoft SSDS, the SQL Server Data Services it
announced last week, yields just six articles - SIX! A random nonsense search
term probably returns more than six items.
But SSDS is a big deal, a strategy with far-reaching implications for many
parts of the technology industry, deserving of more than six Google News
hits. SSDS, as a part of Microsoft's emerging W... (more)
Tim Negris has been a product executive at Sybase, Oracle and IBM, a strategy consultant to Dell, HP and Sarnoff Labs, a database and language standards wonk on ANSI, XOpen, and TPPC committees, and is a software innovator in collaborative web technology.
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