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VMWare Chief Chiefly Wrong

In a recent speech, VMWare CEO Paul Maritz raised the rising virtualization rhetoric to a ludicrous level. Among his statements was this gem: “By and large, people are no longer

Yahoo’s Doing Just Fine, Thank You

I had the opportunity to attend Yahoo’s second Open Hack Day at the Sunnyvale, CA campus. This was my first time visiting and I was impressed. It’s a big campus,

Executives Avoiding Cloud Computing in Droves

Cloud computing has been getting an increasing amount of press recently, because it offers attractive solutions to a number of business problems. Cloud computing translates to “hosted applications;” a hosting

Yahoo! Releases Fire Eagle Out of Beta

At a lunch conference yesterday, Yahoo! released Fire Eagle out of beta. This API allows you to broadcast your location to whomever you want, automatically or manually via your phone.

Riding the Semantic Web Fence

The semantic web turned me into a flip-flopper. I’ve heard from both the positive and negative camps. The positive camp thinks the semantic web will revolutionize the web. The negative

When Is Open Source Not That Open Source?

Setting the legal nuances of the chosen open source license aside, wouldn’t two products under any open source license have the same claim to the open source moniker? Maybe so

Mobile Confusion

With last week’s release of the 3G iPhone, things are really heating up in mobile software development. My inbox is flooded with announcements–Nokia going open source, Google phone rumors, Windows

Semantic Technologies with Functionality

When I started with DevX, I knew nothing of the Semantic Web and the technologies that surround it. As I researched the subject, I realized that while a segment of