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• Spiceworks 4.0 with Tabrez Syed

  July 27, 2009 at 2:31 pm / Video

  Recently, I say down with Tabrez Syed of Spiceworks to go over their most recent version, Spiceworks 4.0. In introducing himself, Tabrez speaks to the mixed role he has at Spiceworks, a combination of traditional product management and the newer practices of community management. As we discuss Spiceworks more, it's interesting to see how these two roles play out. To that end, I ask Tabrez to give us an overview of Spiceworks itself. More than just the asset discovery, monitoring, [...]

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• Silverlight 3.0, Expression, and SketchFlow with Brad Becker – RIA Weekly #54

  July 15, 2009 at 9:51 am / Video

  While at the Silverlight 3.0 launch event last week, I had the chance to talk with Microsoft's Brad Becker, who you might recall from a past RIA Weekly episode. We start out with a quick overview of the announcements on Silverlight 3.0 and Expression, and then get into the details of each. Starting with the whole collection, I note that there seems to be a definite "Silverlight stack," composed of the Silverlight runtime, VisualStudio, and then Expression. As Brad ads, [...]

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• Jeff Hammerbacher on Hadoop & Cloudera

  July 8, 2009 at 9:24 am / Video

  While at Velocity 2009 this year, I had the chance to sit down and talk with Cloudera's Jeff Hammerbacher. We talked all about Hadoop, how it's used, and how the company he's at, Cloudera, is fitting into the Hadoop community. We start out talking about the reception of Jeff's Hadoop talk at Velocity and then very quickly get into a discusion of what Hadoop is and the types of applications that use it. Remembering Jeff's (brief) Wall Street background, I [...]

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• Grady Booch at RSC 2009

  July 6, 2009 at 9:07 am / Video

  While at RSC 2009 this year, I talk with IBM's Grady Booch, who you might recall from our discussion at RSDC 2009. We start out talking about the carpet design in the room, a sort of "early, gothic, bordello." Next, we continue a conversation we'd been having before filming about, in Grady's words, "the presence of software abundance in the face of economic scarcity," which raises the question, as Grady puts it: "how does one attend to economic scarcity in [...]

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• Maturing the Software Life-cycle – Neeraj Chandra at RSC 2009

  July 1, 2009 at 1:39 pm / Video

  In this interview from RSC 2009, I talk with IBM's Neeraj Chandra, who you may recall from two previous interviews at RSDC 2008 and Innovation 2008, last year. We start out talking about what exactly a "Smart Product" is and how Rational fits into the overall IBM "Smart Planet" vision. Here, the discussion gets into one of the recent Rational tenants: businesses should not only be looking to software for differentiation and value, but are indeed forced to. The question [...]

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