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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.
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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: 29,704 | 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: 3,214 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: 12,794 | 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: 26,252 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: 6,620 | 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: 2,028 | 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: 12,911 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: 3,706 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: 3,422 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: 5,740 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: 6,803 | 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: 31,011 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: 6,970 | 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: 17,666 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: 10,248 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: 5,506 | 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: 12,985 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: 14,197 | 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: 7,714 | 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: 20,150 | 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: 21,770 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: 10,220 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: 10,329 | 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: 6,776 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: 14,427 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: 10,784 | 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: 9,121 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: 7,216 | 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: 18,142 | 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: 8,629 | 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: 15,072 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: 8,903 | 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: 14,056 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: 7,861 | 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: 28,176 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: 9,398 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: 13,750 | 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: 14,272 Replies: 3 |
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