Roger Strukhoff earned a BA with honors from Knox College, a Certificate in Technical Communications from UC-Berkeley, and an MBA from CSU-East Bay. His work recently won a "Stevie" American Business Award as best publication in its category. His volunteer work in international affairs merited a Letter of Commendation from the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. He splits most of his time between Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia, but can also be found at 
And to think, had IBM "gone mad" and offered a few more billions, it might have saved itself potential billions and billions and billions of lost revenue.Apr. 21, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,927
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| And to think, had IBM "gone mad" and offered a few more billions, it might have saved itself potential billions and billions and billions of lost revenue. |
 Finally coming to grips with cloud means coming to grips with its high-level potential. This thing is bigger than the Internet, probably not bigger with fire, but maybe on a par with electricity.Apr. 20, 2009 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,167 |
 There, I said it. I wasn't the first--a couple of guys funded by Google speculated in March 2009 that cloud computing "could be" bigger than the Intertubes. And I'm sure there are hundreds of you out there, if not more, who have voiced this opinion to colleagues, in a blog, or maybe in...Apr. 20, 2009 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,368 |
 Most initial analysis of cloud computing touts its obvious benefits--grid, pay as you go, near-instant scalability--etc., which is fine. But the big story is how cloud will drive innovation and lead to a new type of CIO.Apr. 15, 2009 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,543 |
 Part 1 of this interview talked about spaghetti and lasagne. Part 2 focuses on ESB, SOA, and the importance of thinking of the business first and last. This is the second part of a two-part interview with Peter Hermans, noted SOA consultant and former architect at a major European tele...Mar. 16, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,640 |
 SOA consultant Peter Hermans oversaw a major SOA implementation at a large European telco. Now he talks about what he learned, and what you can learn as you get involved with SOA. Spaghetti and lasagne are involved. This is the first part of a two-part interview.Mar. 16, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,009 |
 Greg the Architect made quite an impression last year in a series of videos, and in recent months in several cartoon panels. Now, a long neglected interview with NOW Magazine has been re-released to an adoring public.Mar. 15, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,753 |
 HBD Ventue Capital--the HBD really does stand for Here Be Dragons--ventures across the globe seeking the most innovative companies in which to invest. In this exclusive interview, company CEO Julia Long discusses what makes the company tick and why she looks beyond the horizon for oppo...Mar. 11, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,426 |
 Joe Manna is CIO of Live Nation (www.livenation.com), based in Beverly Hills, CA. A native of southern California, he double majored in math and computer science at Cal State-Fullerton before starting his career in technology. He’s spent many years as a CTO, but now finds himself inter...Mar. 10, 2009 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,251 |
Innovators look at things differently, it seems. How can we learn from the greats of the past to invent a great future for ourselves? Mar. 9, 2009 04:12 PM EDT Reads: 156 |
 Tom Campbell has a law degree, a PhD in economics, and a resume that includes Silicon Valley congressman, Dean of UC-Berkeley's Haas Business School, and top analyst for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is now making is own bid for the governership of the Golden State in the November 201...Mar. 8, 2009 08:19 PM EDT Reads: 151 |
 The 80/20 rule has negative implications for traditional IT reousrce allocation, with the 80 percent going to maintenance, and only 20 percent to innovation. How can you innovate with SOA to flip this ratio on its head?Mar. 7, 2009 10:00 PM EST Reads: 2,649 |
 Think in terms of all of your IT assets as part of a portfolio of innovation, and it becomes easier to think of you to put them to creative use that drives operational efficiency.Mar. 7, 2009 07:42 PM EST Reads: 2,382 |
 The United States and other wealthy countries are hypocritical in the way they view trade policy, according to leading economist Ha-Joon Chang.Mar. 5, 2009 09:00 PM EST Reads: 2,013 |
 The terrifying economy is disrupting our thinking about SOA and all its related technologies. It's hard to concentrate, but we should. This will end sometime... won't it?Feb. 25, 2009 04:45 PM EST Reads: 1,708 |
 Let “the community” do it, right? This approach often results in the toy-like, feature-lite aspect of much open-source software. It also leads to the reality that even licensed, “enterprise editions” of much open-source software require tremendous internal resources, often far exceedin...Feb. 23, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 892 |
 There are many important concepts within Web 2.0 thinking. The problem is that the real term should have been Web 2.x, to describe steady, ongoing improvements to the Web. The global economic crisis focuses IT buyers' minds on efficiency and immediate financial benefits. Real software ...Feb. 23, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 756 |
 You may view CEP as just another acronym. But bear with me, complex-event processing is the way to wring efficiency out of your SOA. CEP optimizes things and provides a way to get out of this economic mess we're in.Feb. 22, 2009 06:00 PM EST Reads: 1,971 |
 DK Sharma is the head of the International Technology Organization at Citi Global Consumer Group. He joined Citi in 1989, and is based in Singapore. He manages software development for the company’s consumer business, supporting almost 50 businesses globally, in all countries outside o...Feb. 21, 2009 10:22 PM EST Reads: 154 |
 The word “offshoring” and its sibling “outsourcing” can provoke instant, righteous anger among some people, while being touted as a one-size-fits-all panacea by others. The recent decade or so of outsourcing and offshoring—particularly to India within the IT business—has generated copi...Feb. 20, 2009 07:30 PM EST Reads: 1,168 |
 After years of being admonished to focus on the business first, most IT execs still can't stop talking about the speeds/feeds, bugs/features, and bullet point aspects of their latest technology. They have to stop doing this.Feb. 20, 2009 07:15 PM EST Reads: 1,301 |
 Online content, and the searching of it, is often thought to be a nice "green" way of finding information and learning things. But how green is it really? The Personal Digital Footprint Calculator, based on research from IDC and sponsored by EMC, determines the rate at which you create...Feb. 19, 2009 10:00 PM EST Reads: 1,245 |
 A challenge for many who are new to Twitter is knowing what to say, how to say it, and how often to say it. But many have discovered that the 140-character limitation--even less when you are replying to someone--focuses the mind wonderfully, resulting in a new precision and elegance in...Feb. 13, 2009 07:15 PM EST Reads: 1,816 |
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 Ray Roxas-Chua leads the Philippines government's information and communications technology (ICT) initiatives. In the wake of the Satyam scanda in Inida, it seems the potential to outsource to the Philippines instead has grown. I interviewed him in late 2008. The interview occurred bef...Feb. 9, 2009 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,946 |
 After IMPACT 2007 in Orlando, Java Developer's Journal had the opportunity to talk with Sandy Carter about IBM's new SOA announcements at the event, as she is responsible for driving IBM's cross-company, worldwide SOA marketing initiatives.Oct. 30, 2008 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,037 Replies: 1 |
 Over the past two years, AJAX as a general technological approach seems to be maturing very quickly. I won't bore this magazine's savvy audience by recounting for the umpteenth time how, when, and by whom the term was coined, and I fully realize that many of you had been working - some...Jul. 11, 2007 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 11,008 Replies: 1 |
 Roman astrology turned into the Greek alphabet recently, with the announcement that the previously named 'Scorpio' has been released as the ColdFusion 8 Beta. Initial reaction from the most sophisticated members of the CF community was positive.Jul. 3, 2007 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 17,254 |
 The increasing integration of Adobe and former Macromedia products continues with Creative Suite 3, which is available in a version targeted specifically to Web developers and designers. Designers today - whether they started in an era of X-acto knives and border tape or have recently ...Jun. 2, 2007 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 20,543 |
The report that Microsoft is buying local digital marketing shop Aquantive for six BILLION dollars shows that if we're not in a new bubble, we're in something that sure looks and feels like the real thing. Redmond seems bent on regaining consumer computing supremacy as it competes with... May. 18, 2007 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 12,531 Replies: 1 |
 Before forming Uproar, Cron spent nearly two decades at CMP Media where under his leadership the company grew from an information technology trade publishing company into a global, publicly traded media multinational. As CMP's President, Publishing, Cron was responsible for the company...May. 17, 2007 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,906 Replies: 4 |
Mark Hurd said that HP had more than 700 datamarts, 87 datacenters, 20 petabytes of non-shared storage, and were running on 5,000 applications. Since his arrival in 2004, the company has reduced the number of datacenters to three and consolidated 9,000 servers 'by virtualizing and blad... May. 10, 2007 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 14,317 Replies: 1 |
 Development and Design are two sides of the same coin in the digital age, and it is very nice to consider in any case how well these two formerly separate worlds have come together over the past two decades. Adobe was at the forefront from the beginning, with its Postscript Fonts. Base...Apr. 24, 2007 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 24,344 |
 We live in the eternal present, yet think mostly about the future and the past. When we are able to stop time and consider what's going on 'right now' or 'these days,' we often think about how our lives and times used to be simpler. How often do you recount stories from a 'simpler, mor...Nov. 5, 2006 02:00 PM EST Reads: 16,971 |
 'Ease-of-use' is one of those buzz terms that software marketeers routinely inject into their promotional copy to describe their product. The term is one of those unarguable concepts; after all, who's not in favor of ease-of-use?Sep. 24, 2006 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 19,824 Replies: 8 |
 Last month, we addressed platonic concepts in this space, albeit in as surface-level a way as possible. Just added a little pretentiousness to what could have otherwise been a deadly dull column. The topic of hand was 'ease-of-use' and the practical reality of achieving such a thing in...Sep. 22, 2006 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,268 |
IBM is taking the lead role in rolling out an 'OpenAjax' initiative that seems sure to add significant momentum to recent grassroots efforts to bring Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or AJAX, application development to the forefront of the i-technology universe. Open source organizatio... Sep. 21, 2006 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 135,107 Replies: 21 |
 We live in the eternal present, yet think mostly about the future and the past. When we are able to stop time and consider what's going on 'right now' or 'these days,' we often think about how our lives and times used to be simpler. How often do you recount stories from a 'simpler, mor...Sep. 14, 2006 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 24,910 Replies: 6 |
Dan Roberts, Director of Developer Tools at Sun Microsystems, discussed the company's recent decision to join the IBM-led OpenAJAX Alliance, in an exclusive SYS-CON interview. He was joined by Sun AJAX Architect Greg Murray in the interview, who discussed the importance of interoperabi... Jun. 24, 2006 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 18,726 Replies: 2 |
Tne Net Neutrality bandwagon has added a new gear with the passage of a bill that favors telcos over Net Neutrality proponents. There are several opinions in this debate, and one certitude: if you question at least one group too persistently, you get disinvited from the discussion. Jun. 9, 2006 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 23,860 |
