Its a two horse race, wake up and smell the turf

Shelton says “At this stage of the game, it’s easy to see how [Symbian] will be the biggest community around an open operating system.” Oh dear. Someone is living in cloud cuckoo land. This is so a two horse race, its iPhone and Android. The openness, or lack thereof, is largely irrelevant.

So many iPhones

On the back of Apple’s best quarter ever, with sales of 7.4 million iPhone units, comes the not surprising news that the iPhone enjoys 30% of (some) market share in the US. Yes, I know, lies, damned lies and … but anyway, I was at a kind of Workday techie conference recently, at which there were some 24 techies. I reckon about 18 had iPhones. A much higher percentage amongst geeks then. And my better half wants one, it took her about a month of my “there’s an app for that”.

Untouchable iPhone

I’ve had an iPhone for a couple of months now. I can honestly say it has changed my life for the (very much) better. It is insanely fantastic. I just don’t see anyone catching it anytime soon. That sentiment seems to be increasingly shared. Android may be a match eventually, but it will probably be at least another 12 months. Palm webOS? Forget it. Interesting that Nokia don’t seem to have a clue what to do about this market. Of course they should back Android and really push it, but they seem content to do nothing. Echos of Microsoft missing the web. Quite frankly, I think I’m becoming a serious Apple fanboy … I want a Mac.

Workdays great 2009

Great post from one of our partners (and indeed customers) on Workdays 2009 and beyond. As mentioned in this post, we recently passed the 100 customer milestone.

Cloud computing / SaaS shift

Good summary of the state, opportunities and threats of the cloud computing / SaaS shift.

A job in space and developing for Eclipse too

It doesn’t get much better than this!

The deal that never made sense now officially doesn’t make sense

eBay and Skype: bring on Wall St. to sort it out though.

A big vote for Scala then

This will do Scala the world of good.

GMF goes on a diet for Galileo

GMF has slimmed down for Galileo, this is good news. One of our key editors in Workday Integration Studio, our Assembly editor, is GMF based, and it is a bit of hog. It’ll be interesting to see what its like running under the slimmed down runtime.

To jar or not to jar (your Eclipse plugin / OSGi bundle)

That is the question, and it has been answered in Eclipse 3.5