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James Hamilton
James Hamilton is a Search Engine Optimization consultant and an i-technology blogger based in Sydney, Australia. He occasionally blogs about SOA, mergers and acquisitions, open source and bleeding-edge technologies, companies, and personalities.

Virtualization Conference Keynote Webcast Live on SYS-CON.TV
By James Hamilton
Brian Stevens, the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Red Hat, delivered his Virtualization Keynote 'The Future of the Virtual Enterprise' at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco. 'Virtualization is the ...
May. 8, 2008 03:45 PM  Reads: 29,788
Microsoft Will End Up Buying Yahoo Anyway
By James Hamilton
Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo received stupid advice from their investment bank advisers and blew their chance to close the deal with Microsoft as of this Sunday morning. Neither Yang nor Filo are experts on how to sell a company in a multi-billion dol...
May. 8, 2008 12:15 PM  Reads: 3,236  Replies: 1
Red Hat Named "Platinum Sponsor" of Virtualization Conference & Expo
By James Hamilton
Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with ...
May. 7, 2008 09:30 PM  Reads: 12,894
Wal-Mart To Sell $399 Ubuntu Linux-based Laptop with Google Operating System
By James Hamilton
The Ubuntu Linux-based gOS operating system from Good OS LLC (www.thinkgos.com) includes so many Google applications like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google News Google Maps and YouTube that it's often referred to as the Google operating system. It also ...
May. 7, 2008 04:45 PM  Reads: 26,333  Replies: 10
1105 Media Wishes to Launch Virtualization Website and Virtualization Conference
By James Hamilton
So, the geniuses in Chatsworth, California, who picked up the remains of Fawcette Technical Publications from the bank in Virginia, and the remains of 101 Communications, another platform play that went seriously south, sat down in a room this afternoon and said '...
May. 7, 2008 04:30 PM  Reads: 6,628
This Man Should Be Fired from His Job as a Magazine Editor
By James Hamilton
This man, whose name is Keith Ward, should be fired from his job for basic incompetence as the editor of a magazine, and here's why. He posts a blog entry on May 6, 2008, in which he writes: 'Virtualization Journal, coming in second, declares itself the winner,' a...
May. 6, 2008 03:00 PM  Reads: 2,034
Steve Jobs Loses His Mind - Sues "The Big Apple"
By James Hamilton
Friday morning the local Fox television station in New York City broke the news - Apple was suing New York City. Six out of 100 of their viewers thought Apple had the right to sue the City, but 94 out of 100 viewers are now calling for New Yorkers to drop Apple and ...
Apr. 7, 2008 11:15 AM  Reads: 12,971  Replies: 2
Remember the Monkey Business? McCain Is History!
By James Hamilton
The New York Times quoted anonymous aides as saying they had urged McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman to stay away from each other prior to his failed presidential campaign in 2000. In its own follow-up story, The Washington Post quoted longtime aide John Weaver, wh...
Feb. 21, 2008 09:45 PM  Reads: 3,712  Replies: 1
European RIA Technology Leader Canoo Releases Java RIA Library, UltraLightClient for AJAX
By James Hamilton
AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, March 18-20, 2008, in New York City will provide an overview of Canoo's RIA technology as compared to its other European competitors. Upcoming AJAXWorld Conference is demonstrating a stronger interest and participation from delegates...
Feb. 5, 2008 08:30 AM  Reads: 3,427  Replies: 1
The Next SOA Company to Be Acquired After Oracle's BEA Dinner
By James Hamilton
Since we last looked at the SOA marketplace this past April, BEA has finally found its match, in spite of their fearless leader and leftover CEO. After the ORACLE / BEA news we now read rumors that TIBCO may be the next target; perhaps Microsoft should be taking a...
Jan. 18, 2008 07:30 PM  Reads: 5,744  Replies: 1
Android Competitor Adds Members to Deliver a Mobile Linux Platform
By James Hamilton
Trolltech, Acrodea, ETRI, Huawei and Purple Labs have joined the LiMo Foundation started a year ago by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone to deliver a mobile Linux platform. Said platform would perforce have ...
Jan. 12, 2008 01:30 PM  Reads: 6,805
The First Virtualization Company to be Acquired in 2008
By James Hamilton
Any software company headquartered in the United States whose 'About' paragraph contains the three magic letters 'S,' 'O,' and 'A' is either currently negotiating the terms of a deal or getting ready to walk pretty on the auction block to meet their happy highest ...
Jan. 6, 2008 08:30 AM  Reads: 31,021  Replies: 7
Virtualization Cannibalization Starts with Red Hat: Wall Street
By James Hamilton
Red Hat is losing market share to VMware according to Wall Street analyst Katherine Egbert of Jefferies & Co, who downgraded Red Hat's stock Monday. She says Linux isn't needed to replace Unix, that Windows and VMware are more prevalent, and that Red Hat's going t...
Dec. 26, 2007 06:45 AM  Reads: 6,973
Sauers Technologies Releases Public Beta of BundleWorks Application Management Tool
By James Hamilton
For building applications, BundleWorks includes ant tasks and command line tools to allow developers to build standard bundles for both custom and third-party applications. For testing, BundleWorks allows a developer to create and manage multiple environments to ...
Dec. 5, 2007 01:30 PM  Reads: 17,686  Replies: 1
Sun Catches Up with the Virtualization Game
By James Hamilton
A critical part of Sun's virtualization portfolio, Sun xVM Ops Center reduces datacenter management complexity by combining a range of lifecycle management functionality into an all-in-one tool. Sun xVM Ops Center helps simplify discovery, monitoring, operating sy...
Dec. 4, 2007 11:15 AM  Reads: 10,249  Replies: 1
Can You Believe These Shameless Head Hunters?
By James Hamilton
Why are you opening private message directed to someone else? This is a private message not directed or intended for you. As I'm a long time member of the HR community - shame on you! Eileen Sirrell
Dec. 4, 2007 10:15 AM  Reads: 5,509
Web After AJAX - Yahoo! News Ranks Number One
By James Hamilton
The study contains two parts: an in-depth examination of the online customer experience and an in-depth examination of technical quality or 'service levels' (site responsiveness and site reliability) of the leading news Web sites including AOL News, CNN, FOX News,...
Dec. 2, 2007 03:45 PM  Reads: 12,991  Replies: 1
VS 2008 Builds AJAX-based Web Apps
By James Hamilton
VS 2008 can also be used to build AJAX-based web apps. It can be used to target multiple versions of software like existing .NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 programs and continue to deploy them on .NET 2.0 machines. .NET Framework 3.5 supports Windows Presentation Foundatio...
Dec. 2, 2007 12:30 PM  Reads: 14,200
Mobile AJAX and Web Performance in Europe
By James Hamilton
Keynote Competitive Research announced Europe's first performance index for the mobile Web. The Keynote Europe Mobile Index is a weekly performance ranking of 10 popular European mobile sites compiled from more than 26,000 measurements taken on multiple carriers f...
Nov. 21, 2007 09:00 AM  Reads: 7,716
ORACLE BEA - Is Oracle the New Microsoft?
By James Hamilton
Oracle owns PeopleSoft and JD Edwards; they own SleepyCat; they own BEA; and of course they have their own enterprise database. This means they have the stack from top to bottom, with the exception of an operating system. They can take the CRM and banking and insu...
Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM  Reads: 20,158
ORACLE BEA - What Larry Wants, Larry Gets, Always!
By James Hamilton
Here are my thoughts on this. I was expecting Alfred - who is known to be an arrogant and incompetent CEO - to run away from Larry as fast as he could. But this movie usually ends as follows. First, history repeats itself. By that I mean that Alfred should remembe...
Nov. 17, 2007 12:30 PM  Reads: 21,781  Replies: 1
ORACLE BEA - BEA's Alfred Is Off the Hook, Larry Should Just Buy Red Hat
By James Hamilton
I think Larry should just buy Red Hat for cash and no questions asked. Forget BEA and forget TIBCO. Larry should take a week off after this week's OracleWorld and get back to his office in his yacht, and type up his next press release (which is saved in his laptop...
Nov. 13, 2007 12:00 PM  Reads: 10,227  Replies: 3
WSO2 Announces "Extended SOA Support" at the SOA World Conference & Expo
By James Hamilton
WSO2, the open source SOA company, announced at the SOA World Conference & Expo, that it has significantly extended the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to support the heterogeneous, enterprise-scale demands of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The WSO2 ES...
Nov. 12, 2007 06:45 PM  Reads: 10,338
Oracle Takes Over San Francisco, 45,000 Attendees, Tents on Streets!
By James Hamilton
Oracle OpenWorld will open tomorrow in San Francisco with 45,000 people in attendance, a far bigger crowd even than CA's New Orleans cruise ship hotel accommodation days. I saw the photo below in my friend Ian Thain's blog entry from this afternoon. The city says ...
Nov. 11, 2007 12:00 PM  Reads: 6,779  Replies: 1
Red Hat & Sun Cut Java Deal
By James Hamilton
Red Hat, which has made its fortune displacing Solaris, is now going to collaborate with Sun to advance open source Java, which Red Hat is particularly partial to given its JBoss investment. This is the third time this year that Sun has laid down with one of its ...
Nov. 9, 2007 09:30 AM  Reads: 14,435  Replies: 1
ActiveGrid Re-brands as WaveMaker
By James Hamilton
WaveMaker, formerly known as ActiveGrid, has announced a new corporate brand and product strategy that will address the growing demand for technology that simplifies the assembly of Web applications, while meeting the architectural, security and governance polic...
Nov. 7, 2007 08:15 PM  Reads: 10,792
AJAX Market Throughout APAC Is Exploding!
By James Hamilton
Dave Wolf, vice president, Cynergy stated, 'With the opening of our new Taipei office, we are building on the continued demand for Cynergy designed and developed rich Internet applications, as well as expanding our global presence. Business applications users have...
Nov. 7, 2007 05:45 PM  Reads: 9,125  Replies: 1
XAware Introduces Open Source SOA Solution
By James Hamilton
XAware has announced the creation of an open source project and the availability of XAware 5, open source data integration software that increases the productivity of development teams. XAware transcends existing data integration offerings with its ability to 's...
Nov. 7, 2007 03:45 PM  Reads: 7,221
The Future of Rich Web Apps: Melding the Web and the Desktop
By James Hamilton
Experts at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania have been considering the future of Web apps vs desktop apps. While they predict that any gap between web and desktop software will narrow in the future, they note that one wild card is how well hybrid ...
Nov. 7, 2007 10:30 AM  Reads: 18,167
Genuitec and ICEsoft Round Out Enterprise AJAX Development
By James Hamilton
Genuitec, provider of the MyEclipse integrated development environment and a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation, announced a new partnership with ICEsoft Technologies. ICEsoft is the creator and provider of ICEfaces, an open source framework for simplified ...
Nov. 7, 2007 09:45 AM  Reads: 8,634
Ruby-on-Rails Start-up Gets $6.2m in Funding
By James Hamilton
FiveRuns Corporation, a pioneer of monitoring products for Ruby on Rails, described by some as the new Java, has gotten $6.2 million in funding from Austin Ventures. The money is earmarked for acceleration product development, sales and marketing and the company...
Nov. 2, 2007 12:45 PM  Reads: 15,080  Replies: 1
I Would Buy Active Endpoints Stock If They Were a Public Company
By James Hamilton
I personally don't know Mark Taber. It looks like he is an IBM'er with an impressive background. I did, however, meet Fred 12 years ago, at the first Powersoft User Conference in Orlando while he had his LexiBridge company. Those were the days with Mitchell Kertzm...
Oct. 12, 2007 09:30 PM  Reads: 8,912
Adobe ColdFusion Is As Dead As a Door Nail
By James Hamilton
Joshua Cyr at Macromedia blogs writes: 'I got some spam from sys-con again today. I have tried for months now to get off their damn lists. At any rate the subject caught my eye. 'ColdFusion 8 is Here'. Thats odd... so I decide to read the email. Turns out their mail...
Oct. 10, 2007 04:45 PM  Reads: 14,067  Replies: 1
Adobe Was Missing at AJAXWorld!
By James Hamilton
There was another interesting announcement from Microsoft yesterday about Astoria Web Services. Actually I've seen a lot of press around AJAXWorld this year, but the buzz on the expo floor is 'Whatever happened to Adobe?' One attendee I was talking to last night a...
Sep. 26, 2007 07:45 PM  Reads: 7,862
Come and Have Beer with Me at AJAX World
By James Hamilton
I will be attending the Ajax World Conference next week in Santa Clara. I will also be at the opening reception on Monday and the conference party on Tuesday. Over the weekend Jesse Liberty blogged about this as well 'If you are going to be at AJAXWorld, look for ...
Sep. 20, 2007 03:15 PM  Reads: 28,191  Replies: 1
EnterpriseDB Open Source Oracle Wannabe Still Searching Identity
By James Hamilton
Since its inception a few years ago as the 'Oracle-compatible database company' EnterpriseDB is still burning cash with no publicly shared revenue or profitability figures. When you compare the birth and the toddler years of EnterpriseDB with, let's say, Marc Fl...
Aug. 7, 2007 06:00 PM  Reads: 9,400  Replies: 1
Why Yahoo! News and MSN News Can't Compete With Google News
By James Hamilton
Where would YOU go to get your news? Google News? MSN News? Or Yahoo! News? I think the answer is clear (it's Google), and this reflects the success and failure of these three players. And I don't want to hear from the MSN News people that they almost got it right, ...
Apr. 29, 2007 04:15 AM  Reads: 13,754
CNBC's New "Squawk Box" Is Light Weight
By James Hamilton
From what I saw this morning, CNBC's morning show Squawk Box turned its format into a light-weight show overnight. It looks like the new and expanded Squawk Box time slot is from 6 AM to 10 AM. The show used to start at 7 AM with Mark Haines, Joe Kernen, David Fab...
Dec. 19, 2005 11:45 AM  Reads: 14,275  Replies: 3



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