Rapid web-based app development: good or evil?

Filed in archive The Vision Thing by Scott Wilson on February 27, 2009

I'm having a strange chocolate and peanut-butter moment with two conversations springing from recent posts. The second, with Jonathan Sapir regarding the recent acquisition of PaaS firm coghead by...

AppEngine pricing announced

Filed in archive The Cloud by Scott Wilson on February 25, 2009

Google's cloud-based application platform, AppEngine, has been in testing with free, but limited, instances available to developers to get a feel for the service and its capabilities for nearly a ...

Can VMware hold on?

Filed in archive Information About , Virtualization by Scott Wilson on February 25, 2009

We've seen Microsoft coming after them in it's own clumsy but powerful way, and various cloud-based offerings threaten the company at an even more conceptual level, but now old-school termin...

Further failures cast cloud into question

Filed in archive The Cloud by Scott Wilson on February 24, 2009

First, an apology: I am a slave to alliteration. I could also have gone with "Cloud casts its own shadow" or "Clunky cloud crumbles" so really, I think you have to thank me for wha...

Searching the Deep Enterprise

Filed in archive Information About , Integration Software by Scott Wilson on February 23, 2009

I think it sounds like the name of the next Star Trek TV series, what do you think? What I am riffing off of, however, is this New York Times article talking about the mythical "Deep Web&quo...

Viewing new technologies through old prisms

Filed in archive The Vision Thing by Scott Wilson on February 19, 2009

I'm found of saying that technology is cyclical, and at a certain level I think most people would certainly agree with me. You look at mainframe timesharing, you look at desktop PCs, you look at t...

SaaS expected to grow through the downturn

Filed in archive SaaS by Scott Wilson on February 17, 2009

For a dim ray of sunshine in the middle of an otherwise gloomy day (gloomy, at least, for anyone watching the markets) I refer you to a recent study from IDC forecasting a continued expansion in the S...

More on complication

Filed in archive Information About , The Cloud by Scott Wilson on February 9, 2009

Not long after Google went goofy last Monday (although the issue, somewhat surprisingly, continued through the week), reader Shou'Shou brought my attention to the fact that Google has in fact ma...

Federal CTO position eviscerated

Filed in archive CIO by Scott Wilson on February 7, 2009

The much ballyhooed position of CTO for the United States which President Obama included among his campaign promises looks to be going the same direction as most campaign promises, which is to say, by...

Administrative note

Filed in archive General by Scott Wilson on February 5, 2009

They are performing some upgrades behind the scenes here today; although the site should remain up I the posting system won't be back until later tonight... I'll resume regular posting when it...

Internal threats alive and well

Filed in archive Security by Scott Wilson on February 3, 2009

As if Fannie Mae weren't already having enough troubles, it seems that at the height (depth?) of the credit market implosion late last year it was also suffering an insidious threat from within i...