ColdFusion has been around practically as long as the web itself . Today it retains a loyal but relatively small developer base (Adobe counts it at around 750K developers compared to my own estimates of about 48 trillion for .NET).
Overall CF has lost market share percentage to competing technologies for years (ASP, Java, PHP, etc.) and [...]
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I Continue To Be Impressed With ColdFusion
October 6th, 2009 · 11 Comments
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Flash On The iPhone: Well Almost
October 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments
My colleague Ray Valdes has posted a nice blog entry regarding the announcement on Monday at Adobe’s Max Conference that Flash applications will be deployable to Apple’s iphone. Here’s my take…
A major theme of this year’s conference was the upcoming 10.1 release of the Flash player targeted specifically at a wide range of smart phone [...]
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New OSS Research – The Role Of OSS In A Down Economy
June 16th, 2009 · No Comments
I just published a research note that outlines some key trends and strategies to maximize OSS investments in the ‘down’ economy. You can find it here.
Let me know what you think.
How is your IT org leveraging OSS in today’s IT environment?
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Open Source Software Research Library At Gartner
February 6th, 2009 · No Comments
Last updated on 5/13/09
Disclaimer: This is pretty much for Gartner clients since non-clients cant actually get to the content. However it should give you a good idea of the open source related material we cover at Gartner nonetheless. I’ll update this blog entry from time to time so this one is a good bookmark candidate.
We [...]
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New Research Note On Saving $$$ With Open Source
February 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I just published a short “finding” research note on leveraging open source to save money.
Clients can find it here. It’s a very short piece meant to serve as a quick place holder while I work on a much more in-depth note. I hope to have that one ready by end of February.
Here is a quick excerpt with a couple [...]
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Open Source Lawsuit Makes It To Court
January 27th, 2009 · No Comments
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/dec/11/cisco-lawsuit/
The Software Freedom Law Center is the main watch dog for the GPL family of licenses.
Its rare that we see oss license litigation make it to court. In most cases these issus are settled quietly behind closed doors. But ironically the problem is that we dont have much modern case law on the books to [...]
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A good OSS in 2008 article at ars technica
January 4th, 2009 · No Comments
A good list of some major oss events last year…
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090102-alook-back-at-the-open-source-victories-of-2008.html
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New Research: Dynamic Programming Languages Will Be Critical to the Success of Many Next-Generation AD Efforts
December 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I just published a new research note on dynamic (scripting) languages. Gartner clients can find the full note here but the following is a quick highlight of the content….
Dynamic programming languages, such as PHP, Python and Ruby, are making their way into mainstream IT efforts. Although these tools provide new opportunities for IT organizations to [...]
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New Research: Predicts 2009: The Evolving Open-Source Software Model
December 8th, 2008 · No Comments
We’ve just published a research note that has some key predictions for open source over the next several years. It’s only available to Gartner clients but here are some highlights…
Key Findings
By 2012, at least 50% of direct commercial revenue attributed to open-source products or services will come from projects under a single vendor’s patronage.
Through 2011, less [...]
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Heading To Gartner’s Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit?
December 5th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ll be in sunny Las Vegas from Dec 8th to the 10th at Gartner’s AADI conference.
The high here at home was 20 today so I am LOOKING forward to the Nevada desert right about now.
I’ll be doing two presentations on AD and one on OSS plus an OSS user roundtable (link above).
If you are attending [...]
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