Steve Gillmor

The J2EE community gathered Monday in San Francisco to celebrate the launch of Version 1.4, as well as to tease the ease-of-use direction of next years J2EE Version 1.5. Does that mean 1.4 isnt easy to use? The event was also a parade of a bewildering set of conflicting Java vendor strategies. You need a […]

Gmail, Googles new Web-based e-mail service, has sparked commentary, controversy and even calls for congressional action. eWEEKs Steve Gillmor explored the perils and possibilities of the free software-as-service in an exclusive conversation with Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Obviously, there are privacy implications of Gmail that I do want to touch on, but Im just as […]

The Sun-Microsoft alliance has been broadly perceived as an attack on Linux and the bailout of a weakened antagonist to preserve the illusion of competition. Certainly the deal is all about intellectual property, with licensing money flowing between Redmond and Menlo Park. The cash transfers recall the much lower number of dollars ($150 million) that […]

With his management team reshuffled, Suns president and chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz sat down again with eWEEKs Steve Gillmor to discuss Suns contributions to the open-source community, the Sun-Microsoft deals impact on DRM, identity management and visual development tools, and the strategic role of Suns auto-update technology in the emerging real-time enterprise platform. Steve […]

SAP executive board member Shai Agassi has positioned the company in a leadership role in the emerging event-based, real-time architecture. In a conversation with eWEEKs Steve Gillmor, Agassi talks about SAPs big bet on NetWeaver and its Enterprise Services Architecture. The last time we talked a year and a half ago, there were some doubts—not […]

As I turned on recording on my Tablet PC, SAP executive board member Shai Agassi joked that the last time we talked, it got him into trouble. Two years ago, he told me about SAPs forthcoming NetWeaver platform and its transformative move to a service-oriented architecture. Now “its here,” he said in a conversation two […]

In the wake of Sun and Microsofts stunning settlement, Sun also announced the elevation of software chief Jonathan Schwartz to president and chief operating officer. In a conversation with eWEEKs Steve Gillmor, Schwartz talked about where the two companies are looking to collaborate. Whats the deal as to Microsofts Java Virtual Machine (JVM)? Is it […]

Dear Steve, I know this comes at a busy time, with you most likely distracted by the European situation. But I know that youre always open to feedback from the community and most of the press, and your popular Longhorn evangelist Robert Scoble has assured us that Microsoft execs are listening. So here goes. Steve, […]

The ideas behind Groove Networks are compelling. For Ray Ozzie, Groove was a reboot from the original precepts of Lotus Notes, which Ozzie architected before the Internet changed everything. Groove initially promised a “just works” philosophy with zero IT requirements; a secure, user-deployable architecture that distributed resources; and communications from centralized servers to the edge […]

Extensible Markup Language co-author Tim Bray has joined Sun Microsystems Inc. as technical director of the companys software group, reporting to Sun Software Chief Technology Officer John Fowler. Just a week after Sun Software chief Jonathan Schwartz revealed Suns move toward RSS(Really Simple Syndication), Bray discussed his charter at the intersection of RSS, XML and […]

Three years after Ray Ozzie resurfaced with Groove Networks Inc., hes back with a sweeping redesign of the Groove product and architecture. In a conversation with eWEEKs Steve Gillmor, Ozzie talks about Grooves role in the changing nature of work and information routing. What is your favorite feature of Groove 3? The notification features have […]

When Bill Gates talks about security, as he did before an audience of hard-core security pros at the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, the Microsoft chairman and chief software architect approaches the subject from—for him—a logical place: the center of his desktop. Its like the famous Saul Steinberg “New Yorker” cover: Windows, Office and […]