So I’m here at Mix07, and thought I’d write down my impressions from the first day’s sessions. The first was the keynote, a two and a half hour affair. After lunch I attended the Open Source panel.
Ozzie’s speech was good but not great. He was confident, his slides were a lot less busy than those [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2007
A MIXed Bag
30Apr07 – 17:29
Flex opens up
25Apr07 – 23:31
As everyone has probably heard by now, Adobe has open sourced the Flex 2 framework under the Mozilla Public License. Congratulations to the entire Flex team! John Dowdell has collected a nice set of links to people at Adobe and elsewhere discussing the announcement.
But there is one post in particular I want to call out. [...]
Cross-platform Matters!
25Apr07 – 14:43
Last week I posted about how Silverlight is a validation of the RIA market. I thought I’d post a follow-up of sorts, talking about the importance of cross-platform capabilities.
Today I read a post by Eliotte Rusty Harold on why VRML failed and why OpenOffice needs to make their product work better on the Mac. I [...]
Pot meet kettle: Microsoft complains about IBM lobbying
24Apr07 – 13:01
Rob Weir of IBM has written an excellent rant about the whole Microsoft OOXML vs ODF battle, and about how ironic it is that Microsoft is complaining to the press about how IBM is lobbying against them unfairly. Its well written and it speaks truth. I’ve heard many stories from people involved in the standards [...]
