Today’s debriefing (download directly here or subscribe to the feed for podcast download) catches up on the debriefing items from the past few (work) days. My excuse: I was busy at the Adobe MAX judging event in San Jose last week.
Here are the items covered:
Everyone has Windows in the cloud: Amazon, Microsoft, and 3Tera. As I’ve said before, the short-term deployments to look for are Exchange and SharePoint instance.
Spring Source released dm Server, their application server based on OSGi. I mentioned the general desire for application server simplicity last week, and here’s the release.
This reminds me of a post on virtualization.info about the gloom and doom tone-change in virtualization coverage of late. No longer is virtualization the cure to polio, but it causes problems that need more software to help out - virtualization management! While I agree with this general sentiment, it’s also clear that “create a mess, sell cleaning up the mess” marketing messaging of IT management companies is working. Congrats to them!
Next, I mention IBM’s cloud announcements today, mostly centered around Blue Cloud (the SaaS-offered document/IM collaborative site) but also nuance on their partner programs. (Ashlee Vance and his old friends at The Register> have good write-ups.)
Pulling from a recent press release from Splunk, I note that Splunk now says it has 750 customers, with 60 in EMEA. Also, I point out how weird it is that “EMEA” is considered a single marketing entity.
And then, finally, finally, we hear the rest of the little talk I had with Matt Ray, of Zenoss, last week. This time, on the python unconference he went to last weekend and the python scene in Austin.
Disclosure: IBM, Microsoft, BMC, Zenoss, Splunk, SpringSource, and Sun are clients. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.
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