Steve Gillmor

Over the past two weeks, there have been dramatic shifts in the Weblog software landscape. First, Google announced a brand new, “easy-to-use” version of its Blogger Web-based blogging tool last week—the first new version since Google acquired the company in February 2003. SixApart then announced a new licensing scheme for its Movable Type software, creating […]

When IBM shook up the collaborative desktop with its Workplace cross-platform, rich-client strategy, the reverberations were felt all the way from Redmond, Wash., to Silicon Valley. In a conversation with eWEEKs Steve Gillmor, Ken Bisconti, vice president of Lotus Workplace technologies at IBM, details Big Blues new client middleware stack. Whats the goal of the […]

A sure sign of Googles ascendancy in the technology firmament is the swooshing sound of black helicopters circling the search services impending IPO. Conspiracy theories—once the province of Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Scott McNealy or Larry Ellison—now hover over Sergei Brin and Larry Pages latest experiment-cum-product, Gmail. The issue: Gmails free Web mail service threatens […]

The old saw is that Microsoft only gets things right on the second or third try. Only with Windows 3.0 did momentum begin to build for the transition from DOS to GUI. On the application side, remember Internet Explorer 1.0? I dont. It wasnt until IE 4 that I finally switched away from Netscape Navigator. […]

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 […]