Archive forJune, 2009

Why Enterprises Don’t Like SaaS (ReadWriteWeb)

At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I asked all of the vendors, “SaaS or on-premise?” The assumption, because this conference was all about modern 2.0 stuff, was that everyone would say, “SaaS, of course.” Wrong. At least 50% of the vendors were deploying primarily on premise. Even some of the pure SaaS crowd would admit to an occasional on-premise deployment. Anecdotally, even some of those who …

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Masterclass: Virtual worlds (Revolution)

With a captive audience of young, web-savvy trend setters, virtual worlds such as Second Life can be fertile territory for brands. Mike Fletcher reports.

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Remembering Ed McMahon: Our Favorite Ad (The Car Connection)

Ed McMahon crammed a lot of life into 86 years. Apart from playing straight man to Johnny Carson for 30 of those, he was also a TV host in his own right (Star Search, anyone?) and one of the best-known pitch-men on the planet. He frequently used his skills to shill cars (a natural fit, given his Detroit roots), but he wasn’t afraid to push ..

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Sun launches private beta of the Java Store (Geek.com)

Last month Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz made a new blog post and video discussing how the company intended to go forward with Project Vector. Vector turned out to be a Java app store, working much like the store many of us use to buy apps for our iPhone and iPod touch. The maturity of the Java […]

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Sun Launches an App Store + Ellison on Sun’s Future (O’Reilly Media)

As Schwartz touts the massive market penetration of Java on “Billions of PCs and Mobile Devices”. Sun introduces a Java-centric App Store to bring the advantages of this distribution to Java application developers. Scott McNealy invites Larry Ellison to the stage to talk about the future of Java, how JavaFX is better than AJAX, and how he intends to compete with Google’s Android.

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