by Eric Knipp | June 21, 2009 | Comments Off
It’s Hard to Say I’m Sorry I just want you to know, that I do feel guilt for my lack of recent blog posts. I try to commit enough time to my published writing, client conversations, and informal activities (such as this blog), and sometimes I fall down on the job. There’s no excuse. You [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: microsoft
by Eric Knipp | May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments
Today Salesforce and Google announced Force.com for Google App Engine. Time Keeps on Slipping Announcements around App Engine seem to be accelerating as time passes. Last month it was Java, and the Eclipse toolkit for Google App Engine. Since the Java release, open-source Java dynamic language Web projects have been moving fast to tweak their [...]
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by Eric Knipp | May 17, 2009 | Comments Off
I am getting settled in at the ranch after returning from a great trip to Denver that saw me visit four Gartner clients on Monday and attend the Glue conference Tuesday and Wednesday. As usual, my client meetings got hot and heavy on Cloud computing real quick. What’s interesting to me is that three out [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: aPaaS, glue
by Eric Knipp | May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments
Earlier this week, Micro Focus announced its planned acquisition of Borland for $75m. This is probably pretty meaningless for most folks in Web development, but it carries special meaning for me. I learned how to program on Turbo Pascal 4, way back in the late 80′s when I first worked on some marginally popular forum-hack [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: borland, turbo pascal
by Eric Knipp | April 30, 2009 | Comments Off
Consumer and Enterprise Mashups have generated significant hype in the technology community. Consumer Mashups, which frequently make mapping and social networking part of the technology, have taken off already, while Enterprise Mashups are on the upswing as “the face of SOA”. I’m also beginning to see traditional non-technology companies take interest in Consumer Mashups. Best [...]
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Category: mashups Uncategorized Tags: best buy remix, consumer mashups, mashable, pretailing
by Eric Knipp | April 25, 2009 | 2 Comments
At approximately the same bat-time last (Thursday) night I returned from a road trip to the Bay Area where I enjoyed a total of nine visits with Gartner clients, with seven of those being in the company of relatively new tech startups. What a rush. When I started at Gartner, I had high hopes for [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Appirio, Bay Area, cloud AD, cloud application development, CloudIron, CloudSlam, Gartner
by Eric Knipp | April 17, 2009 | Comments Off
I’ve finally been added to the Gartner Blogger Network. Cheer! I’m a recent addition to the Web Technologies team here at Gartner, working with such illustrious contributors as Gene Phifer, Ray Valdes, David Gootzit, David Mitchell Smith, and David Cearley (among others). I feel lucky to have joined such a great team. I only hope [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: cloud AD, cloud application development, web AD, web application development
