By Roger Strukhoff The 'Net Neutrality' debate is heating up in Washington, DC and around the U.S., as legislation that may determine a key aspect of the future of the Internet as we know it works its way through Congress. On the surface, it seems to be a simple matter of giant telcos vs. giant web compa... Jun. 9, 2006 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 19,035 |
By Roger Strukhoff  If you don't like change, stay away from the software development world. But if you embrace change, then these are among the most exciting, if volatile, times in years. Jun. 6, 2006 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 17,653 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff David Boloker talked about 'the promise of richer user interfaces, encompassing all devices' during his presentation at the Real-World Ajax Seminar at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on June 5. Jun. 5, 2006 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 23,051 |
By Roger Strukhoff Cassatt CEO Bill Coleman outlined a vision of the future in which broadband access, open source software, and the creation of true service-oriented architectures (SOAs) deliver a variety of services to customers who are given much more choice than they are given today. Jun. 5, 2006 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 20,918 |
By Roger Strukhoff An 11-13% workforce reduction and the consolidation of its real estate portfolio are just two of the measures that Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz and his CFO Michael Lehman announced after what they called 'their comprehensive review of Sun's entire global operations.' Jun. 2, 2006 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 31,758 Replies: 3 |
By Roger Strukhoff Contrasting events in May showed a clear difference in perspective over AJAX, considered by some to be the number one story in the IT world today. Whereas AJAX was the main story at JavaOne in San Francisco, it was nowhere to be found across the continent at Sapphire '06 in Orlando. Jun. 2, 2006 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,560 |
By Roger Strukhoff Ajax was the word of the day and talk of the town during the recent JavaOne 2006 Conference in San Francisco. This was probably not the largest JavaOne ever, but had to rank among the strangest with a distinctly non-Java technology dominating every conversation and most of the exhibit ... May. 31, 2006 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 15,377 |
By Roger Strukhoff A new report from Gartner Dataquest allows company spokespeople and commentators to have fun with numbers. The net result of the report is that there's just enough good news to make everyone cautiously optimistic. May. 30, 2006 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 18,912 |
By Roger Strukhoff A three-member panel from a California State Appeals Court has ruled in favor of bloggers who revealed information about Apple Computer from confidential sources, only to earn the legal ire of the Cupertino-based icon. No less a personage than Walkter Cronkite was cited in defense of t... May. 30, 2006 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 21,977 Replies: 4 |
By Roger Strukhoff Yahoo and eBay have announced a multi-year 'strategic partnership' with four major components: search (along with graphical advertising), online payments, a co-branded toolbar, and the emerging 'click-to-call' functionality. The companies said their agreement will be fully up to speed ... May. 26, 2006 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 19,119 |
By Roger Strukhoff The conviction of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling was in no small part to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) legislation. Does this mean the government has done something right? Does it mean the government may be on the right track on another issue, Net Neutrality? May. 25, 2006 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 19,137 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff 'J2EE is so dead, beyond dead,' said a prominent AJAX consultant to this reporter in an unguarded moment. His sentiment was reflected by a number of people at the recent JavaOne 2006 conference. But hey, 'not so fast,' say many others. May. 22, 2006 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 19,181 Replies: 5 |
By Roger Strukhoff Representatives from OpenAjax member companies met over a two-day period recently, and emerged with an important semantic change from referring to OpenAjax as a collaboration to calling it the OpenAjax Alliance. They also decided to focus on interoperability as the main challenge facin... May. 18, 2006 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 19,710 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff Sun retained a certain ambivalence toward the whole 'open' question during the keynote presentation at JavaOne 2006 in San Francisco. And we didn't have Scott McNealy to kick around Microsoft and IBM anymore. Altogether it made for a lackluster presentation, at least in one person's vi... May. 17, 2006 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 24,340 |
By Roger Strukhoff  Benchmarks can mean whatever you want them to mean, it has always seemed. Although useful as a rough guide to performance, and sometimes price/performance, technology companies are famous for interpreting complex benchmark results as victories over their competition and them employing ... May. 16, 2006 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 30,917 Replies: 2 |
By Roger Strukhoff  After BEA's announcement regarding their release of the BlueDragon BEA WebLogic Server, SYS-CON Media had the chance to talk with Blake Connell. May. 15, 2006 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 24,863 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff Dan Roberts, Director of Developer Tools Marketing at Sun Microsystems, said the company is open to talking to IBM about the Open AJAX initiative. 'We're not sure exactly what the initiative means, what its goals are, and so we are open to a dialog (with IBM) about (Open AJAx),' he sai... May. 12, 2006 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 16,856 |
By Roger Strukhoff All companies, and especially companies with the mass of an IBM or Microsoft must integrate The Big View into their Big Revenues and Big Cash Stacks. It is good for business to do so. It also happens to be good for society. Microsoft, where are you going today? May. 10, 2006 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,626 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff Industry commentator Dwight Davis told us, 'Having a solid ad management and distribution engine is an important part of Microsoft's belated response, but it isn't the only necessary element. Unless Microsoft can make its search engine -- and other online services -- more competitive w... May. 5, 2006 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 18,429 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff Storage and Enterprise IT Analyst Marc Farley comments on the newly announced Quantum acquisition of ADIC. The $770 million acquisition can be viewed as a defensive move, but it also strengthens Quantum's story while competing against major enterprise IT vendors Sun Microsystems, HP, a... May. 4, 2006 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 21,042 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff SYS-CON author Frank Cohen, who also authored the book 'Java Testing and Design,' appeared with SYS-CON West Coast Bureau Chief Roger Strukhoff and IT Analyst Marc Farley on a recent 'TechMash' podcast, in which he addressed the challenges of developing and deploying AJAX applications ... May. 2, 2006 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 22,560 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff The growing influence of AJAX has been featured at SYS-CON events over the past several weeks, with a primary focus on the developer side of the equation. But what about the IT management aspects. Enterprise IT analyst Marc Farley joins Roger Strukhoff in a discussion about AJAX and IT... May. 1, 2006 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 22,074 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff Bill Coleman is founer and CEO of Cassatt Corp. Prior to that, he co-founded BEA Systems, and also served as Vice President of System Software at Sun Microsystems. He will be keynoting SYS-CON?s Web Services Edge Conference and Exhibition at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York in June. Bil... Apr. 28, 2006 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 25,367 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff Marc Farley, president of Building Storage, Inc., was interviewed by SYS-CON West Coast Bureau Chief Roger Strukhoff about the CEO transition at Sun, specifically about how Sun's storage strategy was, in his opinion, a bad deal at the time and one that does not bode well for the future... Apr. 27, 2006 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 19,383 Replies: 4 |
By Roger Strukhoff Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy relinquished his long-held CEO position on Monday, April 24, announcing it at the end of a conference call just as an official press release about the transition hit the wires. Sun's stock was up in after-hours trading. Apr. 24, 2006 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 24,863 Replies: 3 |
By Roger Strukhoff No reportorial inquiries have been able to find out whether Scott McNealy is really stepping down as CEO of Sun Microsystems. Now a wire report from PR Newswire says that he is, indeed, to be succeeded by current COO Jonathan Schwartz. Apr. 24, 2006 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 11,199 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff Sun Microsystems lost $217 million in the recently complted quarter, or six cents per share, in line with expecations. Revenue rose, primarily due to the company's recent StorageTek acquisition. Meanwhile, speculation about Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy will continue for at least one ... Apr. 24, 2006 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 8,888 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff Maybe you've already seen this. But if not, please do, and in any case tell us what you think. Is this the fearsome presence that has terrorized generations of managers and suppliers? The guy who won his rematch with John Scully then vanquished Michael Eisner? Or some middle-aged, mild... Apr. 24, 2006 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,675 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff  IBM's announcement last month of the Open AJAX initiative brought to the fore a few key points. The two most obvious are that IBM remains an 800-pound gorilla that the other primates will follow through the business jungle, and that AJAX has emerged as an ironically disruptive technolo... Apr. 18, 2006 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 15,318 Replies: 2 |
By Roger Strukhoff  Welcome back to WebSphere Journal. Good to see you, good to know that you're still engaging in web services, one of the more dynamic areas within all of technology today. Although there are a number of new acronyms emerging right now, the now-old standby SOA continues to drive a large ... Apr. 17, 2006 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,256 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff SYS-CON Publishing Director Jeremy Geelan emceed the annual LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards ceremony at LinuxWorld Expo in Boston. Novell took Best of Show, and awards were presented in 12 other categories. Apr. 7, 2006 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,679 Replies: 2 |
By Roger Strukhoff Microsoft continues to battle with--and be fined by--European Union officials over the basic issue of antitrust. Redmond, having long vanquished U.S. government efforts to change its ways, has not yet been able to do the same in Europe. And the latest wrinkle includes one of the funnie... Mar. 31, 2006 09:15 AM EST Reads: 12,347 Replies: 2 |
By Roger Strukhoff My purpose today is to examine the question about whether the hottest topics in software development right now--Open Source, Ajax, and Web 2.0--offer any relief. My attention was drawn to recent coverage of three classic Web 2.0 companies, flickr, myspace, and youtube. Mar. 27, 2006 01:15 PM EST Reads: 21,637 Replies: 8 |
By Roger Strukhoff  The new year is proceeding with what appears to be a renaissance or perhaps mini-bubble in the global IT industry. Use of the technically imprecise but no doubt seductive term 'Web 2.0' is stimulating companies to think through what they need to deploy for and through their websites in... Mar. 17, 2006 12:30 PM EST Reads: 12,909 Replies: 2 |
By Roger Strukhoff In announcing that RIM 'took one for the team' in settling with NTP over long-disputed patents, did the company in effect negotiate with business terrorists? There are a lot of numbers being thrown around in this case, but one clear question emerges: what sort of precedent has this set... Mar. 4, 2006 08:45 PM EST Reads: 19,069 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff HP CEO Mark Hurd, on the new job for almost a year now, touted the company's Integrity servers during a recent webcast that also featured Intel CEO Paul Otellini and a brief pre-recorded appearance by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. And Linux was mentioned as part of the spectrum of IT infra... Mar. 3, 2006 01:45 PM EST Reads: 9,068 Replies: 2 |
By Roger Strukhoff SYS-CON West Coast Bureau Chief Roger Strukhoff comments on the renewed Oracle/JBoss rumors, considers the upcoming RIM court decision, and gossips a bit about emerging gossip in Silion Valley. Feb. 10, 2006 03:30 PM EST Reads: 11,481 Replies: 1 |
By Roger Strukhoff SYS-CON West Coast Bureau Chief Roger Strukhoff was on assignment Sunday, Feb. 5, dutifully watching Super Bowl XL, but there was nothing 'Xtra Large' about this year's group of tech ads. Tech was, in fact, almost non-existent. Are they just being smart, or are the good times not close... Feb. 6, 2006 09:30 AM EST Reads: 9,759 Replies: 2 |
By Roger Strukhoff One of the antivirus/maleware applications available is also open source - ClamAV. It is a signature-based virus filter program that is very flexible and effective at protecting your files. But THIS article is not so much about ClamAV, as it is about a project designed to make ClamAV a... Feb. 5, 2006 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,332 Replies: 2 |
By Roger Strukhoff It's been a wet and wild January in Silicon Valley. Major Web 2.0 companies Yahoo and Google, in particular, have been in the news recently, with their executives now being covered like major celebrities. Can paparazzi be far behind? Feb. 4, 2006 07:45 PM EST Reads: 15,981 Replies: 6 |
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 
