2006 JavaOne Conference: Sun’s Shannon Demos Pile o’ Java EE 5 Features, Part 1

“Clearly Windows Vista is going to be very important for all developers,” Hamilton noted during a demo of Mustang’s desktop tools.

“You can paint graphics very fast,” Hamilton said, “but what humans really care about is the perceived performance of your application.”

In a general session, Senior VP of Oracle Server Technologies Thomas Kurian outlined tools and trends in enterprise computing for Java developers. Part one of this two-part podcast covers Java EE5 and other tools and standards.

At JavaOne 2006 in San Francisco, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Mike Baum, CES (Chief Executive Splunker!) about Splunk, an innovative software solution for IT Infrastructure analysis. Splunk tracks complex IT datastreams in real time and creates event fingerprints and [See the full post…]

PodTech’s Michael Johnson checks in with Tom Barsi, CEO of ConSentry Networks at Gartner. Barsi speaks about secure LAN systems solutions and their place in the rapidly changing Web Services Universe. Recently Consentry Networks won a Best of Interop Award [See the full post…]

“I think viral distribution is still in its infancy,” Gartner’s VP for Research Allen Weiner told Podtech’s Catherine Girardeau. “We’ve seen some pretty interesting little proof points along the way about how powerful this could be.” In this podcast, Weiner [See the full post…]

Daryl Plummer is Gartner’s Managing VP and Chief of Research. At the Gartner ITxpo Symposium 2006 in San Francisco, Plummer speaks about Service-Oriented Architecture’s with PodTech’s Michael Johnson , and about how it’s really not a static concept. Plummer says, [See the full post…]

Sun Microsystems, which dominated the server market during the dot-com boom, has been searching for major revenue drivers over the past 5 years. The company has been criticized, especially by the financial community, for its stumbles. But Schwartz says the [See the full post…]

Jonathan Schwartz (the new CEO of Sun Microsystems–he’s barely been the chief of the company for three weeks) began the Wednesday sessions at the 2006 Gartner Symposium ITxpo in San Francisco. This is the second part of three podcasts covering [See the full post…]

The Wednesday morning keynote at the 2006 Gartner Symposium ITxpo featured Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, interviewed by Gartner analysts Paul McGuckin and Daryl Plummer. We’ve broken the podcast up into three parts. In this first segment, Schwartz talks about his [See the full post…]

Jeff Jackson, SVP of Java Enterprise Products & Developers Products continues the morning presentation with Steve Jones CTO of Capgemini, and Sun’s Technical Director for Tools, Charles Beckham about BEPL engines and new open source resource. Also featured: Richard Bair [See the full post…]

Alan Brenner, VP, Client Systems Group at Sun Microsystems, hosted a general session on mobility. The 90-minute presentation, called Simplicity in Innovation, unveiled new and coming uses of Java to power experiences via portable devices. In part 3 of the [See the full post…]

Jeff Jackson, SVP of Java Enterprise Products & Developers Products takes the stage from Rich Green, and welcomes veteran EE developers Greg Murray and Craig McClanahan, to demonstrate Java Studio Creator and AJAX blueprint development.Also featured: Microsoft’s Project Tango, and [See the full post…]

Jonathan Schwartz, President and CEO of Sun Microsystems along with Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Connonical, Inc, Mark Fleury CEO of JBoss, and Rich Green, EVP of Software at Sun, make special announcements about new software tools for the Netbeans Community.

Afterhours conversation with Pete Blackshaw from Neilsen Buzzmetric, Tony Perkins, Sanjeev from HP, Jordan Greenhall from Divx, Alex Laats from Podzinger, and PodTech.net’s John Furrier. See also: Alwayson-network

Alan Brenner, VP, Client Systems Group at Sun Microsystems, hosted a general session on mobility. The 90-minute presentation, called Simplicity in Innovation, unveiled new and coming uses of Java to power experiences via portable devices. In part 2 of the [See the full post…]

Alan Brenner, VP, Client Systems Group at Sun Microsystems, hosted a general session on mobility. The 90-minute presentation, called Simplicity in Innovation, unveiled new and coming uses of Java to power experiences via portable devices. In part 1 of the [See the full post…]

Why can’t you buy any cell phone and easily use it with most any carrier? Don’t blame Motorola. Chairman and CEO Ed Zander doesn’t blame the carriers either, even though they dictate which phones their customers will use. In this [See the full post…]

One piece of Motorola’s business the public usually doesn’t see are the products sold to governments and municipalities, such as wireless communications gear. The systems used by cities and states during 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina did not hold up well, [See the full post…]

Motorola Chairman and CEO Ed Zander says the ultimate cell phone would come back into the home–that is, it would be the only phone one would need. But that development seems far away for users in North America. “People always [See the full post…]

PodTech’s Jason Lopez met with Gartner analyst Steve Kleynhans, who covers the PC space, to talk about the state of the industry and prospects for the future. It’s easy to think that broadband is the magic bullet for personal computer [See the full post…]

John Gage, Chief Researcher and VP, Science Offfice at Sun Microsystems, Inc launches JavaOne before an audience of over 10,000 developers, and introduces Jonathan Schwartz, President and CEO of Sun. Ed Zander CEO of Motorola joined in and discusses the [See the full post…]

Film Director David Lynch answers audience questions at TiEcon 2006 in Santa Clara, California. See also: TiEcon.org

Film Director David Lynch speaks about his discovery and use of Transcendental Meditation at TiEcon 2006 in Santa Clara, California. He explains how TM has helped rise above in the often brutal business of the Hollywood film industry. See also: [See the full post…]