Majority Desk – Wiimote 3D widget desktop – totally sick

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While at SAP TechEd ’07 in Las Vegas, James and I had the chance to get an exciting demo from Dan McWeeney and Eddie Herrmann. Having won the SAP TechEd ’06 DemoJam, Dan and Eddie couldn’t compete this year, so they cooked up the Wiimote driven 3D desktop we see in the demo. It’s sort of like Minority Report with two Wiimotes. Built on a collection of open source project and Flex, Dan and Eddie’s Majority Desktop is quite the site to see.

As you may recall, Dan and Eddie have been on RedMonkTV before, back during SAP Sapphire ’07.

Disclaimer: SAP is a client and paid for our travel and room to SAP TechEd ’07.

All acout barcampESM – the barcamp for the IT management community

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Coté talks with whurley, John Willis, and Mark Hinkle about the recently announced barcampESM. Barcamps are awesome ways to get together and “conference” with people, so it’s exciting that the IT management community will finally have the chance to participate in this way. The three explain the idea and their hopes for barcampESM: namely to kick-start wider, cross-silo community action in the IT management world.

Open Source, SOA, and the Next-generation Data Center (Panel from OSBC ’07)

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In this collection of highlights from the OSBC 2007 panel with the same name, Coté talks with Akash Garg (CTO, hi5 Networks, Dave Rosenberg (CEO and co-founder, MuleSource, Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, founder (Chairman & CEO, about open source and Service Oriented Architectures. They cover the complexity of the “WS-Deathstar” stack, the role of open source in enterprise middle-ware, how virtualization positively effects data centers and development, SaaS’s effect on middleware, and potential uses of Amazon EC2.

Thanks to OSBC for permission to use the video, and be sure to check out next year’s OSBC, March 25-26, 2008 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.