<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from OPEN WEB</title><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from OPEN WEB</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>OPEN WEB</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:49:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from OPEN WEB</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/151/openwebDEVELOPER.jpg</url><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Project Insight Project Management Software Releases Project Scorecard</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/599403.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/599403.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/599403_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Project Insight has released Project Scorecard, a project scoring system that enables companies to measure projects on how they fit into corporate goals and objectives. With the recent economic downturn, businesses are hard-pressed to prioritize major projects and determine whether or not they meet company strategies.]]></description></item><item><title>Android Won&apos;t Be Home for Xmas: WSJ</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/597210.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/597210.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/597210_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Sprint may drop out to do a 4G phone and China Mobile is having trouble translating Android into Chinese. And handset makers' efforts to customize the widgetry for carriers is taking longer than expected; there seems to be some difficulty integrating carrier-branded service into the thing alongside Google's apps. The Journal also says that Android isn't getting backing from the mobile ISV because the platform isn't stable - Google is constantly revising it - and Apple's iPhone is easier to develop for.]]></description></item><item><title>SOA World Conference - &quot;SOA and the Internet: An Architectural View&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/585888.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/585888.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/585888_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Exploring the boundaries between the Enterprise and the Internet, this talk focuses on Architectural approaches from the service pattern, process pattern and event pattern to help SOA practitioners understand topics such as Web 2.0, AJAX, SaaS, Social Networks and how they connect with the Enterprise. The emerging patterns of architecture can enable the savvy architect to empower their IT to embrace an accelerating vision of the network economy.]]></description></item><item><title>New Perspectives on Governance, Management, and Industry Standards in the Service-Oriented Enterprise</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/585860.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/585860.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/585860_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Popular assumptions can often be dangerous. We will start by considering how the many unique architectural characteristics of SOA, such as loose-coupling, can actually be a two-edged sword affecting the requirements, nature and success of many important aspects of the architecture, especially runtime governance. In fact, the success of any SOA requires that one must gain an understanding of the true nature, performance characteristics and availability of the business transactions that flows in real-time through these highly distributed services and their supporting IT infrastructure. Similarly, security and governance usually play a critical role in the proper operation of a SOA. Although one may support these critical SOA functions using many different technologies and standards, there is no doubt that for most users today the popular WS-* standards will play a central role. We will conclude by considering how all of these standards might best work together to solve these real-world problems in your SOA. In the process, we will speculate upon some the strengths and weaknesses in the current Web services stack, the nature of the standards process and what trends might be most relevant to your own future success.]]></description></item><item><title>Workspace Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/584961.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/584961.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/584961_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Workspace Virtualization takes a suite of standard Windows applications, and creates a virtualized application workspace on top of an existing Windows OS installation. Workspace Virtualization creates a seamless separation between the application workspace and the OS, optimizing the manageability, performance and deployment aspects of the enterprise environment. In this session, we will examine the technical features of Workspace Virtualization, and it application to diverse enterprise deployment scenarios such as remote access, disaster recovery, and creating a managed enterprise 'island' on employee-owned and subcontractor-owned PCs.]]></description></item><item><title>A Composable Service is a Good Service</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/584959.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/584959.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/584959_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Designing services well requires intentional application of design strategies and consistent utilization of service oriented principles. In this talk, Kyle Gabhart will explore one such principle of service orientation - the composable nature of services. One thing that distinguishes services from other distributed components is the ability to compose solutions. Service oriented solutions support this by aggregating service calls underneath higher-level services and orchestrating services into business processes. Although most service oriented practitioners will readily admit this is a goal, few realize this goal due to poor service design. This session explores the subject of service composition and provides practical guidance regarding how to design and work with composable services.]]></description></item><item><title>The Next Cloud Computing Company To Be Acquired</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/578592.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/578592.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/578592_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 San Francisco. This event was also the last conference BEA Systems sponsored, days before their Oracle acquisition news hit the press. PlateSpin is one of the Gold Sponsors of the upcoming 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City. Novell bought the company before this event has even taken place. In the past six months, four out of nine Virtualization Conference sponsors were acquired.]]></description></item><item><title>Citrix Virtualization Exec Hired as CEO to Sell Sourcefire?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/592105.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/592105.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/592105_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 Joseph Chinnici said Burris would bring to the company the discipline and inspiring leadership it needs to grow profitably. Chinnici called Burris' selection 'the culmination of a thoughtful and disciplined process of succession planning.']]></description></item><item><title>Getting your Groovy on with Grails and Cloud Computing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/594426.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/594426.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/594426_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[You need to think of cloud computing in three  different layers - infrastructure, infrastructure management & platform as a service. At the infrastructure level you have the basis for cloud computing.  This is where you'll find virtual servers or services like Amazon.com EC2. A level above the infrastructure layer you find companies that provide tools to help developers deal with managing their own systems running on top of the infrastructure layer. The third layer is Platform as a Service and is where Morph plays.]]></description></item><item><title>RIA News - Flex vs. AJAX: Stop The Madness!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/508990.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/508990.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/508990_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Flex or AJAX? Which one is better? Which one will 'win' in the RIA space? I am tired of this argument. I'm tired of seeing blog posts keeping this debate alive. It's a non-issue, really. I think that people make it an issue when they try, or investigate, each technology and find one easier than the other then run with that technology's banner. Flex and AJAX can, should, and do exist in the same space. Their goal is the same: A rich UI and breaking the old and busted request-response model with the new hotness of the event-driven model. Both technologies can achieve the same goal, but via different paths.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization - AMD Kills Montreal for Istanbul</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/563025.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/563025.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/563025_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[AMD has rethought its roadmap and, given its limited resources and near-death experience with Barcelona, it's scrubbing Montreal, the eight-core chip that was supposed to follow Shanghai, the chip after Barcelona, and substituting a six-core part code named Istanbul to be followed by a 12-core part called Magny-Cours.   Speculation has also been rife this week that AMD would finally tease out its so-called asset-lite manufacturing plans, some kind of cost-saving outsourcing scheme, at its shareholders meeting Thursday, chatter that has flamed into speculation that it will break in two - a manufacturing business and a chip design and development operation.]]></description></item><item><title>SOA World Viewpoint - Don&apos;t Put the SOA Cart in Front of the Meta Data Horse</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/581301.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/581301.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/581301_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I'm not for one minute suggesting that SOA isn't a very good way of building enterprise systems, but I think it's important to recognise that SOA is not a magic bullet, and is only one part of the overall solution. As Anne Thomas Manes has outlined, SOA may integrate application silos but it does not in itself transform organizations, break down organizational barriers or streamline processes. Neither does it guarantee that the services created are useful.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Google Tests Web Toolkit</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/579356.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/579356.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/579356_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google's Web Toolkit Release Candidate 1.5 is out. That's the stuff programmers can use to develop and debug web applications in Java and then deploy them as highly optimized JavaScript. That way they're supposed to be able to sidestep common AJAX headaches like browser compatibility, and enjoy significant performance and productivity gains.]]></description></item><item><title>MySpace &amp; Opera Adopt Gears</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/579235.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/579235.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/579235_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In the largest third-party win yet for the year-old Google Gears, as well as a win for the browser-as-a-platform, they say, News Corp's MySpace social networking site has used the Google widgetry to upgrade its mail so users can search and sort their mail in real-time. The MySpace news was barely out of the bag when Opera up and announced that it'll be supporting Gears in its desktop and mobile browsers to push the browser as a full platform for applications, it said.]]></description></item><item><title>GIS Planning Integrates Browser-Based Google Earth into its Services</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/579214.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/579214.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/579214_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As soon as Google announced the availability of browser-based Google Earth functionality, GIS Planning's development team jumped on the opportunity to integrate the application into their existing Google Maps-powered services. In doing so, GIS Planning became one of the first developers anywhere to successfully integrate this technology.]]></description></item><item><title>New Perspectives on Governance, Management, and Industry Standards in the Service-Oriented Enterprise</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/565859.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/565859.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/565859_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Popular assumptions can often be dangerous. We will start by considering how the many unique architectural characteristics of SOA, such as loose-coupling, can actually be a two-edged sword affecting the requirements, nature and success of many important aspects of the architecture, especially runtime governance. In fact, the success of any SOA requires that one must gain an understanding of the true nature, performance characteristics and availability of the business transactions that flows in real-time through these highly distributed services and their supporting IT infrastructure. Similarly, security and governance usually play a critical role in the proper operation of a SOA. Although one may support these critical SOA functions using many different technologies and standards, there is no doubt that for most users today the popular WS-* standards will play a central role. We will conclude by considering how all of these standards might best work together to solve these real-world problems in your SOA. In the process, we will speculate upon some the strengths and weaknesses in the current Web services stack, the nature of the standards process and what trends might be most relevant to your own future success.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World &amp;ndash; Personal Branding Checklist</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/316377.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/316377.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/316377_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[This is a checklist of items you need for an all-encompassing personal branding strategy. Personal branding is the process of marketing and selling yourself as a brand in order to gain success in business. Personal branding is a continual process just as knowing yourself is a continual process. As you grow, so does your brand. The need for personal branding arises from the fact that globalization has increased competition in the workplace. As the wheat is separated from the chaff, if you are left standing, you are left standing with others of good caliber. The playing field is now that much more challenging since your competition is as good as, or better, than you.]]></description></item><item><title>Enterprise Web Security Added to Google Apps</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/563152.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/563152.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/563152_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google has taken its Postini investment and turned out Google Web Security for the Enterprise, which is supposed to protect against spyware, viruses and zero-hour threats in real-time whether the user is on the corporate network or working remotely like at a hotel or in an airport. If it detects malware it's supposed to neutralize it before it can reach the company network.]]></description></item><item><title>Wal-Mart To Sell $399 Ubuntu Linux-based Laptop with Google Operating System</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/484595.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/484595.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/484595_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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, Facebook and OpenOffice 2.3.]]></description></item><item><title>Gluecode Creator Thinks He Can Take Google&apos;s App Engine</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/558004.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/558004.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/558004_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A Philippines-based Web 2.0 start-up called Morph Labs thinks its cloud can rain on Google's newfangled App Engine. Morph Labs was founded by Winston Damarillo, the guy who did Gluecode, the only open source company IBM ever bought, a move made to protect its precious WebSphere franchise. The start-up claims to have done all the back-end cutwork to make it easy for developers to get their software up and running as a service on Amazon?s Web Services (AWS), freeing them from Google's Microsoft-like vendor lock-in.]]></description></item><item><title>Zoho Claims Google Was Salesforce&apos;s Second Choice</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546700.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546700.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546700_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Zoho's resident blogger and CEO of its parent company AdventNet, Sridhar Vembu, was dumping on Salesforce - an understandable exercise since Zoho's stash of SaaS Office-wannabe productivity programs includes a Salesforce rival CRM module - when he happened to mention that Benioff, Salesforce's CEO, had tried to buy Zoho. Benioff likes to position Microsoft as old-fashioned and passé. Vembu uses the same dictionary when talking about Salesforce.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Shares Gallop Thru $500</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546697.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546697.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546697_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[It looks like Google is back on track to be that $1,000 stock. Having been in the $400 doldrums since February 22, it crashed through $500 and clear into the $520s, up over 75 bucks in after-hours trading Thursday on the strength of its over-the-top Q1 results and the fact that its US paid-clicks were up 20% year-over-year.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Reports 31% Profits Increase in First Quarter of 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546501.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546501.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546501_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[After a better-than-expected quarterly earnings report called 'amazingly good' by the New York Times, it would seem that Google is defying macro-economic downtrend. 'It's clear we are well positioned for 2008 and beyond, regardless of the business environment we are surrounded by,' said Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Cultivates an Ecosystem</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540570.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540570.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540570_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google has ripped a page out of Salesforce.com's handbook and has started up an AppExchange-like Solutions Marketplace site to cultivate third-party programs that complement its own widgetry, initially stuff like Google Apps and enterprise search. But Google says it expects it to 'grow to fit the needs of an expanding set of Google customers and developers.']]></description></item><item><title>Google Plays the Platform Game</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540569.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540569.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540569_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Monday evening, at a gathering called Campfire One, Google unveiled App Engine, a hosted web application platform that offers web developers free use of Google's mighty infrastructure and all the building blocks that Google uses for its own applications. Amusingly, it's as vendor lock-in and importable as anything Microsoft in its heyday ever dreamed up. That, however, didn't stop Google from immediately filling the 10,000 spaces it made available for App Engine's initial beta.]]></description></item><item><title>Will comScore Prove Prophetic for Google?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/545065.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/545065.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/545065_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google's paid-clicks in the US, the source of its fortune, showed weak, almost imperceptible growth for the third month in a row, according to comScore, just a couple of days before Google was scheduled to post its Q1 financial results. The tabulator says they were up only 2.7% in March and just 1.8% for the whole first quarter, a nasty, nasty drop from the 48% it supposedly recorded in the third quarter of last year or even its 25% growth in the fourth quarter.]]></description></item><item><title>Google &amp; Salesforce Clouds Collide Over Redmond</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/542510.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/542510.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/542510_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The widely rumored mating of Salesforce.com and Google Apps has taken place. There is now something called Salesforce for Google Apps; Google's productivity programs have been integrated into Salesforce's CRM suite - so data in one can be moved into the other and vice versa - in hopes - or so it is said - of creating a thunderhead that eventually rains all over Microsoft's parade.]]></description></item><item><title>Early Notes on GoogleApps</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/538210.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/538210.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/538210_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I'm not kidding. It's even better than I hoped. Yes, it's only Python, but IBM's PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn't matter. Yeah, I preferred C, but I coded in Pascal because that's what you had to do to get an app running. What you're going to see here that you've never seen before is shrinkwrap net apps that scale that can be deployed by civillians. That's a mouthful, but that's what's coming. Why? Because here is a standardized platform that can be stamped out in the billions of units. Maybe Google can't do it, but the perception is that they can. Who is willing to stand up and say Google hasn't nailed scaling? What PCs did in the 80s, Google is doing now. PCs took the black magic out of owning a computer.]]></description></item><item><title>Google VP of Engineering To Become EMI Music&apos;s New President of Digital</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/533767.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/533767.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/533767_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Douglas Merrill, Google VP of Engineering, is leaving Google to become EMI Music's new President of Digital. Merrill joined Google late in 2003 as Senior Director of Information Systems. In this capacity he led multiple strategic efforts including Google?s 2004 IPO and its related regulatory activities. He holds direct line accountability for all internal engineering and support worldwide.]]></description></item><item><title>ASF Grants Synapse Separate, Top-Level Project Billing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/506194.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/506194.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/506194_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Even if the announcement that Apache Software Foundation (ASF) granted Synapse separate, top-level project billing last week didn't generate major waves of uproar of reaction and commentary, it remains a significant move to the overall state of a burgeoning open source SOA arena. Initially, after first catching wind of Synapse in early spring of last year, I was thrown off slightly by some of the divergent descriptions/understandings of the effort that were floating around the web and as is the case with incubated open source projects it was a rapidly changing code base looking to grow in a more concisely defined direction over time.]]></description></item><item><title>DreamSpark Is Very, Very, Very Un-Microsoft-Like!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/505624.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/505624.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/505624_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The DreamSpark program is one of the newest initiatives to come out of Redmond that are very, very un-Microsoft-like. I'll talk about another later in this post. It appears as though University and high school students will, at some point (I don't know the hardcore details) be able to receive free copies of Visual Studio, SQL server, and other development servers and enterprise servers. They can use these for non-commercial uses free of charge.]]></description></item><item><title>Washington Shoots Down 3Com Acquisition Deal</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/504454.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/504454.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/504454_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Washington gagged at the thought of Huawei Technologies Co., China's largest telecommunications equipment maker and reportedly closely tied to China's military, owning a minority stake in 3Com and so 3Com's deal to get bought for $2.2 billion cash and taken private by Bain Capital Partners has been shot down on national security concerns.]]></description></item><item><title>Krugle Makes Code Search OpenAPI Available for Partners</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/499987.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/499987.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/499987_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Krugle, the company that provides code search for the world's leading developer networks, including IBM developerWorks, CollabNet, SourceForge.net, and Yahoo! Developer Network, has announced the availability of its OpenAPI for partners. 'With the opening of this interface, Krugle is better able to serve the needs of its developer network partners,' said Matt Graney, senior director of product management, Krugle.]]></description></item><item><title>Consumer Internet Startups: What Comes After the &quot;TechCrunch Bump&quot;?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/498962.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/498962.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/498962_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I see many consumer Internet pitches these days where the basic marketing strategy is to (1) get covered by TechCrunch, (2) get tens of thousands of users from the 'TechCrunch Bump,' and then (3) 'grow virally.' While a positive TechCrunch review has the potential to send thousands of consumers your way, it does not represent a marketing plan. Munjal Shah at Riya found this out after the launch of Riya back in 2006, when he wrote about 'the cocaine-like high and subsequent crash of the Techcrunch effect.']]></description></item><item><title>Tracking RIAs with Google Analytics and Unica NetInsight</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/491743.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/491743.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/491743_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[All this talk about 'the death of the page view,' 'AJAX,' 'rich media,' 'engagement,' and 'events' is enough to make even the most savvy Web analyst think twice about what we're measuring these days.  When you use Google Maps, the name of the page doesn't change. (So now you see where all that page view death conversation comes from.) 'Traditional' web analytics care about when the page name changes - they see that as an important event. Suddenly, that's changed.]]></description></item><item><title>The Greatest IT Bottleneck of Them All Is Finally Falling: Vendor Lock-in</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/494172.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/494172.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/494172_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[One of the most exciting things about the software industry is how fast it moves. Software is constantly optimizing itself around the state-of-the-art. Inherent industry bottlenecks change cyclically every five years or so. Architectures and solutions change too. CPUs too costly? Enter dumb terminals. Network running slow? Build client/servers.]]></description></item><item><title>i-Technology Milestone: The Domain Name System (DNS) Turns 25 This Week</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/491998.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/491998.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/491998_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[When the Domain Name System (DNS) was created 25 years ago, eight years before the introduction of the World Wide Web, a few hundred machines were connected to the Internet. Today more than 130 million are connected, and this number is expected to grow substantially as the majority of the world's population goes online. Without a simplified naming scheme like DNS today's Internet would not exist.]]></description></item><item><title>IT Mill Integrates Google Web Toolkit</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/484389.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/484389.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/484389_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IT Mill Ltd has released version 5.0 of its IT Mill Toolkit under the Apache 2.0 open source license. With IT Mill Toolkit 5 developers now have the building blocks for RIAs that will allow them to work with Java alone. Toolkit 5.0 unites client-side AJAX tools with server-side Java tools, shortening the RIA development cycle.]]></description></item><item><title>Why Microsoft Loves Google Android, Take 2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478686.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478686.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478686_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Android is not bad like world hunger is bad, it's just not good for existing Java standards. My main thesis is this: If Android succeeds as it is currently defined then the entire Java platform, including Java SE, is in trouble. Android's success sends a clear message: Standardization of Java is not important; Write once, run anywhere is not important. That's the antithesis of what the Java platform is all about.]]></description></item><item><title>FTC OKs Google-DoubleClick Merger</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478617.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478617.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478617_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Federal Trade Commission this morning gave Google a Christmas present and approved its controversial $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick over the objections of competitors like Microsoft, Yahoo and AT&T - and the massed privacy front. The 4-to-1 vote came after the head of the Federal Trade Commission, Deborah Platt Majoras, refused to bow to pressure from the Electronic Privacy Center (EPC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and recuse herself from the agency's review of the deal. That review centered on the acquisition's antitrust implications. Privacy concerns were not part of the decision. The FTC figures the deal is 'unlikely to substantially lessen competition.']]></description></item><item><title>Federal Trade Commission Clears Google&apos;s Acquisition of DoubleClick</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478263.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478263.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478263_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google welcomed the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's clearance of its planned acquisition of DoubleClick Inc., a premier provider of display ad serving technology and services.  Google announced in April 2007 a definitive agreement to acquire the company for $3.1 billion in cash from San Francisco-based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman along with JMI Equity and management.]]></description></item><item><title>New Report Discusses Google Android and Funambol Open Source Impact on Mass Market for Mobile Email</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/477719.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/477719.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/477719_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Funambol announced the availability of a free Funambol position paper entitled 'How Google Android Stimulates the Mass Market for Mobile Email and how Funambol Mobile Open Source Monetizes It'. The paper discusses how Android will spur adoption of mobile email by large numbers of people and how Android and Funambol can transform the market.]]></description></item><item><title>Open Web Developer Summit to Take Place April 21-22, 2008 in New York City</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471968.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471968.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471968_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In keeping with the longstanding SYS-CON tradition of being at the very forefront of software development with all its online and offline resources, SYS-CON Media & Events jointly today announced a double whammy, launching both 'Open Web Developer's Journal' (http://openweb.sys-con.com) and 'Open Web Developer Summit' (http://openweb.sys-con.com) - to be held for the first time in New York City April 21-22, 2008.]]></description></item><item><title>SMobile Predicts Spike in Mobile Viruses Once Google Phone Hits the Market</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471793.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471793.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471793_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[According to SMobile Systems, the launch of Google Phone platform will be among the most positive transformational moments in mobile communications history by further merging computers with mobile devices. But while millions of people will now be able to 'compute on the run,' those same consumers will be a high-value target for hackers, spammers and others intent on hacking the new phones.]]></description></item><item><title>emoze&apos;s Push-Email Upgrade Supports Google Apps</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471828.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471828.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471828_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[emoze has upgraded its free software that provides secure push email to mobile phones all over the world, to support Google Apps. This service from Google enables consumers and businesses to use their own custom domain names with several Google products.]]></description></item><item><title>SMobile Systems&apos; Security Solution for Google&apos;s Android</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/472661.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/472661.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/472661_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SMobile Systems has created a mobile security solution for devices coming to market using the Android platform, the Google-initiated, Linux-based open source mobile operating system. On Monday, November 12, the Open Handset Alliance released the Android's software development kit. SMobile's team of security engineers immediately went to work to create a security solution designed specifically for the platform.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Maps Are A Bit Broken Right Now</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/472237.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/472237.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/472237_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[It seems that Google Maps are a bit broken right now. In the 'Screen Shot 1' you can see that I got two hits for the same store, differing only that one has the word 'The' in the name. Excluding abbreviations, their addresses are the same although one has the unit # while the other just the address. One also lists a local number while the other an 800 number.]]></description></item><item><title>db4objects Announces db4o Database as Android Ready</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471443.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471443.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471443_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[db4objects announced that db4o runs seamlessly on the Android platform, a software stack for mobile devices introduced recently by the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance. The Android stack comes complete with application framework, development environment, tools, debuggers and vital applications for developers to leverage and create applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Will Google&apos;s Android Sink or Swim?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/465880.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/465880.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/465880_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[My money is on targeting iPhones and WM devices until Android actually shows up live and in the wild on more than 500,000 devices. Also, don't be fooled about the Android developer challenge. That's not $10million in prize money, that's a $10 million bribe in order to obtain the critical mass of engaged developers they know will be required for anything useful to come out of the Android project. If they don't have truckloads of developers begging to get their apps onto the phone, their framework will fail and all the mobile partners will go back to business as usual.]]></description></item><item><title>Why Microsoft Loves Google&apos;s Android</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/467328.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/467328.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/467328_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[You won't hear Microsoft say this out loud, but secretly they are celebrating Google's contribution of the Android mobile phone platform to the Open Handset Alliance. At least they ought to be. Android is perhaps the best thing to happen to Microsoft since they won the browser wars in the 1990s.]]></description></item></channel></rss>