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Christopher Keene
Christopher Keene is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WaveMaker (formerly ActiveGrid). Keene was the founder, in 1991, of Persistence Software, a San Mateo, CA-based company that created a new approach for managing data in high-transaction banking and communications systems. Persistence Software investors included Cisco, Intel, Reuters and Sun Microsystems. The company went public in 1999 on the NASDAQ exchange and was sold in 2004 to Progress software. After leaving Persistence Software in 2005, Keene spent a year in France as chairman of Reportive Software, a Paris-based maker of business-intelligence tools, and as an adjunct professor and entrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD, a leading graduate business school. |
Viewpoint: Time for Open
Source Software Vendors
to Think Beyond Free By Christopher Keene Of the many sins that
Silicon Valley practices,
none are more dangerous
or prevalent than the sin
of smugness. Savio
Rodrigues has a good
posting making the point
that Microsoft is
learning from and
adapting to the
open-source movement,
while the open-source
mov... Jun. 13, 2008 03:45 AM Reads: 9,992 Replies: 5 | Why Open Source Java will
Win SaaS Platform Wars By Christopher Keene  Although the SaaS
development platform has
gotten a lot of
attention, it has so far
been remarkably closed
and proprietary. The
Platform-as-a-Service
leader, SalesForce, has
both a draconian hosting
policy (host your apps
anywhere, as long as it's
with us) but als... Jun. 10, 2008 04:15 AM Reads: 7,402 Replies: 3 | SaaS Platforms For ISVs
and Who Wins? By Christopher Keene  Although SaaS development
platforms like SalesForce
and Coghead have gotten a
lot of attention, this
market has so far been
remarkably closed and
proprietary. The Platform
as a Service leader,
SalesForce, has both a
draconian hosting policy
(host your apps and data ... May. 24, 2008 11:30 AM Reads: 1,764 | JavaOne 2008: Chris
Keene's Prescription for
Curing the Java Flu By Christopher Keene At WaveMaker, we have
hitched our wagon to Java
so I hope very much that
JavaOne is showing us the
ghost of Java present,
not the ghost of Java to
come. The Sun promise to
put Java runtimes
everywhere is meaningless
if nobody wants to
develop for those
runtimes. A... May. 13, 2008 06:15 AM Reads: 5,627 Replies: 6 | AJAX and Open Source
Communities Must
"Liberate" the HTML Web
from the Unweb By Christopher Keene Web development and
customer expectations
have far outstripped the
table management
capabilities of HTML. The
web needs to evolve to
support building the Rich
Internet Applications
that people want to use.
At the same time, web
tools need to evolve to
be able to h... Apr. 21, 2008 06:30 PM Reads: 3,642 Replies: 1 | Two Doors to Enterprise
Web 2.0 Adoption By Christopher Keene  Ben Worthen of the Wall
Street Journal recently
posted an entry about Web
2.0 adoption. He cited a
Forrester survey that
concluded Enterprise Web
2.0 solutions would gain
broad adoption in 2008
despite clear CIO
resistance to the siren
call of blogs and wikis.
Ope... Apr. 21, 2008 05:00 AM Reads: 10,474 | Data Services for
Next-Generation SOAs By Christopher Keene This article discusses
the advantages of
implementing shared 'data
services' to deliver on
the true promise of
service-oriented
architectures - rapid
application development
through reusable
components without
sacrificing fast,
accurate enterprise data
access. Dec. 2, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 11,979 Replies: 1 |
YOUR FEEDBACK  | Progress Software to
Acquire IONA Technologies By SOA World Magazine News Desk Varun Dube wrote: Hi,
I saw this coming. Most
SOA product vendors were
busy strengthening there
core SOA stack and SOA
quality and operations
were totally ignored
areas. I had in my post
predicted that increasing
awareness amongst
customers would spark
another wave on
consoli... | | AJAX and Enterprise RIA
Tools - JSF, Flex, and
JavaFX By Max Katz Michael wrote: As
Photoshop and Co can
export to JavaFX this
would be really
interesting in Xara 4 ,
as it is my prefered
program. Are there any
plugins or is it coming
from Xara itself in the
near future?
hopefully! I'm
interesting too who needs
that ....
yours
Michael | | Consolidated Disaster
Recovery Using
Virtualization By Virtualization News Desk Karen wrote: We're
praying that the right
decisions will be made.
www.choosejesusrightnow.c
om | | Opinion: Give ColdFusion
Some Room to Breathe By Andrew Powell Kai Tischler wrote: Hello
Andy !
I have just recently
rediscovered the possible
value of "ColdFusion on
Java"; and now we have
also "CF Groovy" at our
disposal ...
My question is really:
You mentioned that You
use Java for domain
modeling; how do You do
this concretely in a
"... | | EnterpriseDB Recruits New
CEO from Red Hat By Maureen O'Gara Bob Zurek wrote: Andy has
done a terrific job as a
leader, co-founder and
president / ceo to drive
success of the company
during its 4 years and
phases of development.
The commentator that
describes people as
"idiots" and
"incompetent" under some
bogus name deserve no
respect. Give me a break! |
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