{"id":1764,"date":"2008-10-15T17:47:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T22:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/10\/15\/debriefing007\/"},"modified":"2008-10-15T17:47:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T22:47:44","slug":"debriefing007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/10\/15\/debriefing007\/","title":{"rendered":"Debriefing &#8211; Silverlight 2.0, &quot;Open Web,&quot; Firefox, IT Spending, &amp;co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/2922276514\/\" title=\"Keys and Thermostats at the new Frisco by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3146\/2922276514_94f0ae597f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Keys and Thermostats at the new Frisco\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s debriefing (download <a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/redmonk\/debriefing007.mp3\">directly here<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/RedmonkRadio\">subscribe to the feed<\/a> for auto-download) covers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/Application-Development\/Microsoft-Delivers-Silverlight-2\/\">Silverlight 2.0 is out<\/a>! We&#8217;ll cover this is more depth in this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riaweekly.com\">RIA Weekly<\/a>, but I skim the specifics and comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/proposals\/sldt\/\">the Eclipse Silverlight plugin project<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/almaer.com\/blog\/joining-mozilla-to-create-new-developer-tools-for-the-web-hoping-to-create-a-new-chapter-in-the-book-of-mozilla\">Dion Almaer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/galbraiths.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/a-new-direction\/\">Ben Galbraith<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/Application-Development\/Mozilla-Taps-Web-Guru-Duo-for-Developer-Tools-Lab\/\">joined Mozilla to start the developer tools department<\/a> (or &#8220;labs,&#8221; or whatever). Congrats to them, this will be fun to watch.<\/li>\n<li>I cover three briefings I&#8217;ve had since the last debriefing: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xkoto.com\/\">xkoto<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Service-now.com\/\">Service-now.com<\/a> (getting in the enterprise; looking good), and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfman.com\/\">PERFMAN<\/a> demo.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/10\/14\/making-money-with-opensource\/\">People have been asking me how the crappy money-times will effect software<\/a>, while I don&#8217;t really have answers, one place to cut back is on upgrades. You&#8217;ve already for the previous version that &#8220;works,&#8221; so do you need to spend to get new stuff. Potential hits here could come for Windows Vista (already under fire) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/aboutadobe\/pressroom\/pressreleases\/pdfs\/200810\/101508AdobeCS4avail.pdf\">Adobe&#8217;s CS4 release<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>InnoTech is tomorrow. I should be there, along with other Austin-ites. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/mumboe.com\/\">Mumboe booth<\/a>! If you can&#8217;t spring the $35, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/whurley\/statuses\/959652109\">whurley has a code for free passes for you<\/a>. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/10\/14\/upcoming-austin-conferences\/\">as I noted yesterday<\/a>, there are two other Austin conferences coming up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiceworld2008.com\/\">Spiceworld<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telelogic.com\/campaigns\/2008\/ugc\/americas\/index.cfm\">IBM Telelogic User Group conference<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Novell announced their plans to buy Managed Objects yesterday. I give a re-cap of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/10\/14\/novell-buying-managed-objects\/\">my write-up<\/a>: Novell looks to be building out it&#8217;s IT Management portfolio, and I&#8217;d expect them to buy more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2008\/10\/15\/t-mobiles-g1-could-hit-on-friday-after-all-reactions-already-mixed\/\">Google&#8217;s Android (on T-Mobile) should be in people&#8217;s hands Friday<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en-us.www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/3.1b1\/releasenotes\/\">A beta of Firefox 3.1 is out<\/a>. It&#8217;s got fancy tab switching and &#8220;open web&#8221; friendly standards support aplenty. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/hardware\/?p=2781\">the Hardware 2.0 blog post<\/a> on the topic for some speed tests and more details.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, I followed up with Surgient this morning. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/10\/15\/surgient-update\/\">the short interview I did with their CTO<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> Microsoft, Adobe, BMC, IBM, Spiceworks, and Managed Objects are clients. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/clients\/\">the RedMonk clients list<\/a> for other clients mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s debriefing (download directly here or subscribe to the feed for auto-download) covers: Silverlight 2.0 is out! We&#8217;ll cover this is more depth in this week&#8217;s RIA Weekly, but I skim the specifics and comment on the Eclipse Silverlight plugin project. 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