The Archives
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06.10.08Enterprise 2.0 Conference - Social Computing Platforms: IBM and MicrosoftThis is the first of my posts from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. I plan to do small, summary style posts with my opinion. I will also provide links that point back to the core content on the conference website. There's a backchannel that everyone can participate in, whether or not they are at the conference. Just choose the session you're interested in and join the chat. The first session today was a joint presentation from IBM and Microsoft to showcase their respective collaboration platforms. Let's get this straight from the get go - both platforms, deployed and tuned well, will ...
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04.18.07Silverlight? indeedOver at UXB, Shane Morris is trying to convince us there's really no competition between Flash and Silverlight (along with no competition between the Expression toolset and similar Adobe products). I've had a couple of short conversations with Shane recently about where and how Expression and WPF are going to impact the incumbent toolsets - Flash, Flex, Dreamweaver and other Adobe design tools (not to mention Eclipse) and I'm not convinced by his arguments that they can all play nice together. Shane's a super-smart guy - incredibly likeable and with few peers in the user experience space - but it's ...
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11.01.06Microsoft joining the revolution!?This announcement at TechCrunch (and the related links, jump down the rabbit hole for full details) is one of the most interesting announcements in the server/scripting language space I've seen in a very long time. No, it's one of the most interesting announcements I've heard, period, In a long time. Behemoth Microsoft and PHP player Zend are joining forces and playing nice in order to facilitate PHP development on Microsoft's server platforms. Wow! On top of that, the announcement with respect to Office Live coming out of beta and being cheap to have, and the release of Office ...
