Denis’ Blog

Ok, you have an iPhone. And you’ve been amazed by the first demo of Jeff Han (BTW, Jeff has founded Perceptive Pixel, see their official video). Then you get excited by Microsoft Surface or the one developed by the French Toulouse based startup Intuilab.

Now, thanks to Johnny Chung Lee, join them, transform your laptop 1.0 in a powerful, modern, laptop 3.0

Johnny did it again. Johnny, keep going

Late 2007 rumors raised about a possible acquisition of SAP by Microsoft. The two companies denied. Would such an acquisition make sense? Is it the time to think about it again?

Well, this deal would make a lot of sense:

• It would consolidate the Sharepoint growth, sharepoint being a very exciting front end for corporate SAP
• It would accelerate Office 2007 adoption, for the same reasons
• It could accelerate SAP adoption in the SMB market, a key market nowadays. Leveraging SAP and Officce 2007 to boost SaaS for SMB is a viable option.
• For the three previous reasons, it would offer new growth opportunities while creating a quite unique value proposition
• The two companies have been collaborating for years, and a merger would have a chance to be successful
• It would put pressure on IBM, Oracle & RedHat on enterprise servers for SAP installations

Of course there are also good reasons for this operation not to happen. The corporate market is maybe not the most important nowadays for Microsoft, and Microsoft could have other strategic bets.

So. What do you think? Will it happen?

Java is a 15 years old language. And 95% of java projects still have bad productivity and many, many, many architectural pitfalls. Too much academic, too much frameworks, too much options, whatever the reasons are, it is demonstrated quite every day.

Some people help us see the light. Of course some of my beloved Java architects here .But in the outside world we can see good design and good execution. Want to be convinced that Java can be done the right way, helping fast features implementation and high scalability at the right cost? A few examples:

• Jive Forums & Clearspace from Jive Software. These guys know their stuff.
• Jira & Confluence from Atlassian
• Alfresco from…well, Alfresco
• Nuxeo 5 from..well, Nuxeo.

And there is one big, big, big site relying on Java: LinkedIn. Maybe the  fact a French designed the beast helped a lot (ok, for soccer it is over for us guys, let us dream that we are software designing the right way ). Have a look at their presentations.

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No Hibernate, Agile methodology and scalability in mind. Great stuff.

BTW: I’ve connected yesterday to Linkedin, it was down for a few minutes. You can’t have 100% availability. Except of course in PHP….. Just kidding :-p.