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Alan Williamson

Alan Williamson is a Sun Java Champion and creator of OpenBlueDragon (an open source Java CFML runtime engine). While he has dabbled in the blac kart of JavaScript he prefers his Java. Follow his blog, http://alan.blog-city.com/ or e-mail him at ajaxworld(at)alanwilliamson.org.
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Time for VMWare to Change
Its Pricing Model By Alan Williamson  The once darling of the
software industry,
VMWare, is currently
struggling to recover to
anything close to what it
was. With stock once
riding high at $124 per
share, it is now
struggling to break the
$40 barrier. VMWare rode
the initial wave of the
virtualization... Jul. 25, 2008 11:15 AM Reads: 1,026 | Google Web Toolkit:
Finally Java Has Been Put
into JavaScript! By Alan Williamson  For many years, Java and
web developers alike have
had to explain to the
unwitting that JavaScript
had absolutely nothing to
do with Java. It was one
of the great marketing
gaffes of the mid-90s.
They were no more alike
than chalk and cheese.
But in the last six
m... Jul. 3, 2008 07:15 AM Reads: 10,820 Replies: 5 | How to Create a Gadget
for Google Desktop By Alan Williamson Have you played with
Google's Desktop tool?
This is basically a strip
on the side of your
screen that lets you
house small applications,
called Gadgets. The tool
is available for Windows,
Linux and Mac so no
matter your vice there is
a flavour for you. There
is a ... Nov. 2, 2007 07:15 PM Reads: 15,019 Replies: 1 | As a Zimbra User I'm Not
Sure If This is Good News
or Not... By Alan Williamson  Yahoo has agreed to
purchase Zimbra, the open
source enterprise mail
server company, for
approximately $350M.
As a Zimbra user, I am
not sure if this is good
news or not. Definitely
good news for the
employees, shareholders
and investors for Zimbra.
Although, i... Sep. 18, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 8,984 Replies: 1 | Zimbra 5 Takes a Step
Closer with Beta 3 By Alan Williamson  Another big surprise, and
to the relief of many a
system administrator, is
that Apache Tomcat is
out. Instead Jetty is the
new underlying servlet
engine that will make the
whole thing tick. I have
long ditched Tomcat in
favor of Jetty; principal
reasons include much... Sep. 18, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 8,627 Replies: 1 | VMware Virtualization for
the Children By Alan Williamson If you're a parent, then
you'll have been through
it. Your son or daughter
wants to play on your
computer and before you
know it, you've given
yourself up to the
wonders of CBEEBIES and
Club Penguin on MiniClip.
This is all fine and
dandy until they stray to
anoth... Aug. 6, 2007 09:15 PM Reads: 9,721 Replies: 2 | Open Source Java? - Why
on Earth Would I Want
That? By Alan Williamson This week at LinuxWorld
Laurie Tolson gave
reporters an update on
the planned release of
Java and its associated
tools under an open
source license. By the
end of the year, javac
and the hot spot compiler
will be released. The
precise license details
haven't yet b... May. 23, 2007 09:00 PM Reads: 27,429 Replies: 4 | Sun Swings and Misses
Once Again with JavaFX By Alan Williamson It really is our own
fault; we have come to
expect too much of Sun.
They are like that
lovable uncle we have.
They have the best
stories at the dinner
table, but if you look
around at the other
adults, they are all
rolling their eyes and
laughing politely. They
... May. 13, 2007 09:15 AM Reads: 25,923 Replies: 4 | Installing Java ... not
for the faint hearted By Alan Williamson At the weekend my cousin
innocently commented to
me that he was having
some problems with his
Java installation and
asked if I could have a
look for him. He manages
a fleet of lorries that
go all over Europe and
one of the tools he has
is a real time tracker of
wh... Sep. 28, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 9,968 Replies: 3 | Open Source "Spying" On
Open Source: The CIA
Project By Alan Williamson 'Commit reporting has
been done before,' Micah
Dowty tells LinuxWorld
Magazine's founding
editor Alan Williamson in
this exclusive interview
at the recent Open Source
Business Conference in
San Francisco, 'but one
of the things that makes
CIA really unique is that
... Apr. 20, 2005 02:00 AM Reads: 21,626 | Kontek Industries Invited
to the Prestigious Force
Protection Equipment
Demonstration at Quantico By Alan Williamson Kontek Industries
announced today that it
has been selected to
demonstrate its steel
bollards, vehicle
barriers, mobile troop
housing with mortar
shield roof, erectable
mortar shield canopy, and
.50 caliber armor-proof,
blast-tested guardhouse,
at the invitation-o... Apr. 19, 2005 01:30 PM Reads: 15,976 | CD Group Offers Customers
New Choices with
Microsoft(R) Business
Solutions - Axapta(R) By Alan Williamson CD Group, a national
consulting firm providing
Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) and
Business Intelligence
(BI) solutions to
mid-market and enterprise
companies, today
announced it has signed
an agreement with
Microsoft(R) to sell
Microsoft Business
Solutions- ... Apr. 19, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 16,296 | | Analysts International to
Schedule First Quarter
Conference Call After
Filing of S-4
Registration Statement
With SEC By Alan Williamson Analysts International
announced today that the
Company will schedule its
regular quarterly
conference call after the
Company and Computer
Horizons Corp. have
filed their Form S-4 with
the Securities and
Exchange Commission. The
filing is expected to
take place in May. Apr. 19, 2005 12:30 PM Reads: 13,887 | Renaissance Learning,
Inc. Teams Up with
Sagebrush Corporation By Alan Williamson Renaissance Learning(R),
Inc., , a leading
provider of learning
information systems and
school improvement
programs for pre-K-12
schools, today announced
a partnership with
Sagebrush Corporation,
which will further
strengthen the
distribution of its
reading prod... Apr. 19, 2005 12:01 PM Reads: 14,501 | Swisscom Broadcast Ltd.
live mit NetCracker By Alan Williamson Apr. 19, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 15,256 | KongZhong Corporation
Appoints Senior Vice
President of Finance By Alan Williamson KongZhong Corporation , a
leading provider of
advanced
second-generation (2.5G)
wireless value-added
services in China,
announces that Mr. JP Gan
has accepted an offer
from the Company to be
the Senior Vice President
of Finance, effective May
16, 2005. Mr. Gan wi... Apr. 19, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 14,731 | GoldenPalace.com lanza
myCitadel By Alan Williamson Citadel Commerce Corp,
empresa líder de
proceso de pagos a
través de
Internet, ha anunciado
que GoldenPalace.com
ofrece ahora myCitadel
como opción de
pago instantáneo
en sus páginas
web. Apr. 19, 2005 08:53 AM Reads: 18,055 | DiGi Telecommunications
Selects Video Streaming
Services From LogicaCMG By Alan Williamson LogicaCMG today announced
it has won a contract
with DiGi
Telecommunications Sdn
Bhd (DiGi), a prepaid
mobile market leader in
Malaysia, to deploy Next
Generation video
streaming services in
partnership with
Nextreaming and
Inphosoft. Apr. 19, 2005 07:00 AM Reads: 17,803 | MTS stellt neue
elektromechanische
Testlösung vor By Alan Williamson Apr. 19, 2005 04:05 AM Reads: 15,198 | ITC^DeltaCom Appoints New
Chief Financial Officer By Alan Williamson ITC^DeltaCom, Inc. , a
leading provider of
integrated communications
services to customers in
the southeastern United
States, today announced
that Richard E. Fish has
been appointed the
Company's Chief Financial
Officer. Mr. Fish joined
ITC^DeltaCom in February
2... Apr. 18, 2005 09:07 PM Reads: 14,593 | Bodog.com jetzt mit
myCitadel By Alan Williamson Citadel Commerce Corp,
ein führender Intern
et-Zahlungsverarbeiter,
gibt bekannt, dass
Bodog.com jetzt myCitadel
als Lösung für
Sofortzahlungen auf ihren
Webseiten anbietet. Apr. 18, 2005 08:24 PM Reads: 15,445 | WEGENER Exhibits at NAB
2005 By Alan Williamson Wegener Corporation , a
leading provider of
television, radio and
data distribution
networks worldwide, today
is exhibiting their
products at National
Association of
Broadcasters 2005
Exhibition in Las Vegas.
The show runs from
Monday, April 18 through
Thursday, April 21, 2005. Apr. 18, 2005 08:08 PM Reads: 14,447 | FullTilt Solutions
Reports Record Sales
Results By Alan Williamson FullTilt Solutions, Inc.,
a provider of Enterprise
Product Information
Management (PIM) software
solutions that make
perfect product
information possible,
today announced record
sales growth for the
quarter ending March 31,
2005. Revenue bookings
increased 200% o... Apr. 18, 2005 06:03 PM Reads: 13,702 | | Adelphia Taps Motorola to
Grow High Speed Data and
Rollout New Voice
Services By Alan Williamson Motorola, Inc. has been
selected by Adelphia
Communications to provide
the Motorola Broadband
Services Router (BSR)
family of products for
deployment of advanced
data services. This
latest selection further
establishes the BSR 64000
as an industry leading
carrie... Apr. 18, 2005 05:12 PM Reads: 13,671 | US LEC Corp. to Broadcast
First Quarter 2005
Conference Call Live on
the Internet By Alan Williamson US LEC Corp. , a
telecommunications
carrier serving
businesses and enterprise
organizations throughout
the Eastern United
States, today announced
it will provide an online
Web simulcast and
rebroadcast of its first
quarter 2005 conference
call on Tuesday, April
... Apr. 18, 2005 05:00 PM Reads: 14,234 | Bodog.com Launches
myCitadel By Alan Williamson Citadel Commerce Corp, a
leading Internet payment
processor, announces that
Bodog.com is now offering
myCitadel as an instant
payment option on their
websites. Apr. 18, 2005 04:05 PM Reads: 17,043 | LendingTree Settlement
Services Gains Momentum
by Streamlining Another
Segment of the Loan
Process By Alan Williamson LendingTree Settlement
Services, LLC (LTSS),
which was created in 2004
through a joint venture
between LendingTree, LLC
and GreenLink, LLC, has
gained considerable
momentum in the four
months since fulfilling
its first order. LTSS
provides real
estate-secured set... Apr. 18, 2005 02:02 PM Reads: 19,606 | Chiffre d'affaires du
Groupe NEYRIAL premier
semestre 1er octobre 2004
au 31 mars 2005 By Alan Williamson Le chiffre d'affaires
consolidé du
Groupe NEYRIAL HAUTE
TECHNOLOGIE, pour le
premier semestre,
s'établit à
20,5 millions d'euros
contre 19,5 millions pour
la même
période de
l'année
précédente. Apr. 18, 2005 01:06 PM Reads: 13,705 | Summit Strategies a
Leading Technology
Analyst Recognizes Smart
Online as a Top Vendor in
Software-as-Services
Market By Alan Williamson Smart Online(R), Inc.
(BULLETIN BOARD: SOLN)
announces Summit
Strategies has
acknowledged the company
as a top pure-play
net-native vendor in the
Software- as-Services
(SaS) market in their
recent report written by
Phil Wainewright, titled
'Software Powered
Se... Apr. 18, 2005 12:02 PM Reads: 65,651 | | Appistry Named 'Cool
Vendor' by Leading
Analyst Firm By Alan Williamson Appistry has been
included in the list of
'Cool Vendors' in the
'Cool Vendors in
Application Platforms and
Service Oriented
Architecture, 2005'
report by Gartner, Inc.
The report will be
available for download on
http://www.appistry.com/
. Apr. 18, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 12,693 | | Atmel Introduces New
Highly-integrated WLAN
802.11b/g SiGe Power
Amplifier With Excellent
OFDM Performance By Alan Williamson Atmel(R) Corporation
(Nasdaq: ATML), a global
leader in the development
and fabrication of
advanced semiconductor
solutions, announced
today the availability of
its new WLAN Power
Amplifier (PA) for the
fast-growing high-volume
WLAN market. Apr. 18, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 13,538 | David Hirschfeld rejoint
Asset Control By Alan Williamson Apr. 18, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 12,995 | | MTS Introduces New
Electromechanical Testing
Solution By Alan Williamson Apr. 18, 2005 04:05 AM Reads: 11,597 | L'agence de presse
polonaise PAP commande
à mecom GmbH un
système novateur
de diffusion de
communiqués de
presse By Alan Williamson L'agence de presse
polonaise PAP (Polska
Agencja Prasowa S.A.),
établie à
Varsovie, a
commandé un
système de
diffusion de
communiqués de
presse à la
société
allemande mecom (Medien-C
ommunikations-Gesellscha... Apr. 15, 2005 08:33 PM Reads: 11,362 | Cellnet and Sensus
Metering Systems to
Provide WaterOne with
Advanced Meter Reading
Solution By Alan Williamson Cellnet Technology, Inc.
(Cellnet(R)), in
conjunction with AMR
project partner Sensus
Metering Systems (Sensus)
today announced a 15-year
contract to supply Water
District No. 1 of Johnson
County (WaterOne) with
network automated meter
reading (AMR) services
for a... Apr. 15, 2005 07:24 PM Reads: 14,543 |
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