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.
- Alex Miller noted that JDK 1.4 is End-of-Lifing (EOL), which makes me wistful for the good old days being exciting about regex in Java and JMX. (Or maybe that was in 1.3?) Also, be sure to check out Danny Coward’s The Planetarium, a nice, short wrap-up of daily Java news.
- Microsoft released the free version of it’s virtualization engine, Hyper-V last week, It’s free! Related, but not mentioned, is IBM’s all you can eat guest-instance Blade release from last week.
- 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.
- CA launched an automation, of DCA strategy/product this week.
- Finally, I point out that I’ve been sharing a lot of things in Google Reader, in addition to del.icio.us bookmarks. So, check out that page/feed if you like links.
- 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.