Articles by Engin Sezici

Do Not Buy Your BlackBerry From AT&T

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:45:00 EDT

I am one of the very first BlackBerry users - I've been one since 1997 when it was first introduced at the annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco. Since then I went through more BlackBerries probably than even JetBlue founder David Neeleman. With all the love and around-the-clock use, comes basic maintenance as well, I guess. Recently, the trackball in my Pearl jammed. We called AT&T support, they rushed me a replacement unit, overnight. (After all my monthly BlackBerry charges as a world traveler/CEO run to around $1,500 each and every month.)

Free Guest Passes for the SOA World Conference & Expo in New York City

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:45:00 EDT

SYS-CON's upcoming '3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo' faculty includes such distinguished speakers as: Al Aghili (Managed Methods), Alan Chhabra (Egenera), Andi Mann (Enterprise Management Associates), Andrew Conte (APC), Andy Astor (EnterpriseDB), Ariel Cohen (Xsigo Systems), Bill O'Conell (IBM), Bob Lozano (Appistry), Bob Quinn (3Leaf Systems), Brian Martin (IBM), Carlo Innocenti Ph.D. (DataDirect Technologies), Chris Shayan (Ashna Samane), Chris Wiborg (Cisco), David Kleidermacher (Green Hills Software), Doc D'Errico (EMC Corporation), Donato Buccella (Certeon), Dror Gill (Ceedo), Etay Bogner (Neocleus), George Pradel (Vizioncore), Geva Perry (GigaSpaces), Gordon Hunt (Real-Time Innovations), Gregory Brail (Sonoa Systems), Greg Lyon (Egenera), Harry Petty (Brocade), Hezi Moore (Reflex Security), Hubert Yoshida (Hitachi Data Systems), Ian Thain (Sybase), Jacek Kruszelnicki (Numatica Corporation), Jeremy Geelan (SYS-CON Media), Jerry Melnick (Marathon Technologies), Joe McKendrick (WebServices.org), Johan Nordin (Software AG), John Goodson (DataDirect), John Senor (iWay Software), JP Morgenthal (Avorcor), Julian Weinstock (Desktone), Keith Swenson (Fujitsu), Ken North (Computing, LLC), Kenon Owens (VMware), Kevin Epstein (Scalent Systems), Koen Aers (Red Hat/JBoss), Kurt Daniel (Parallels), Kurt Ziegler (SIMtone), Kyle Gabhart (Web Age Solutions), Mark Davydov Ph.D. (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Mark Hapner (Sun Microsystems), Mark Milligan (VirtualLogix), Matt George (Fidelity Investments), Michael CareyPh.D. (BEA Systems), Michael Gorman (Whitemarsh Information Systems), Mike Pizzo (Microsoft), Miko Matsumura (Software AG), Nikita Ogievetsky (Morgan Stanley), Parviz Peiravi (Intel), Paul Lipton (CA), Paul Vasquez (VMware), Peter Manca (Egenera), Phil Morris (Sun Microsystems), Pierre Fricke (Red Hat / JBoss), Ravi Gururaj (VMLogix), Rich Lechner (IBM), Rich Schreiber (Nastel Technologies), Richard Mark Soley (OMG), Rick German (Stoneware), Robert Steward (DataDirect), Ron Williams (Tivoli Software), Sean Derrington (Symantec), Shai Fultheim (ScaleMP), Simon Crosby (Citrix), Stefanos Damianakis (Netrics), Stephen Herrod (VMware), Stephen Pollack (PlateSpin), Tom Bishop (BMC Software), Ursula Sinkewicz (Fidelity Investments), Victoria Livschitz (Grid Dynamics), Yakov Fain (Farata Systems), Zoran Cakeljic (Virtual Iron).

Five Live SYS-CON.TV Demos Show NetBeans 6.0 Being Put Through Its Paces

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:15:00 EST

As developers continue to migrate to NetBeans from other IDEs, the NetBeans community has experienced tremendous growth. To date there have been more than 16 million downloads and a 300% increase in email list subscribers during the past three years, and now NetBeans 6.0 has been released, a historic milestone celebrated in this exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview with NetBeans Technology Evangelist Gregg Sporar, during which Sporar gives an in-depth glimpse into the many new features of this release by means of five meticulously prepared live demos.

As Enterprise RIA Development Market Mushrooms, Marc Fleury Joins Board of Appcelerator

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EST

Appcelerator CEO Jeff Haynie is quoted as saying about Fleury, 'We believe the knowledge he developed building JBoss, to the point where it quickly became a true challenger to much larger competitors and a substantial industry force, will be invaluable to Appcelerator as we look to achieve similar dominance in our pursuit of the enterprise RIA development market.' According to Fleury the company delivers cross-platform functionality on the server side, supporting the .NET, Java, Ruby or PHP architectures. On the client side, its RIA widgets are standards-based and portable across browsers.

Google's Knol vs Ulitzer

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:00:00 EST

Google's Knol sounds like a knee-jerk reaction and retaliation to Jimmy Wales' public insults and threaths for more than a year. At least that's the common perception out there. Blogger Michael Arrington writes: 'Knol is not much different than existing products. It's a new knowledge base for authors. Anyone, eventually, will be able to write on any topic they choose. Google will provide authoring tools, store the information, allow others to comment and suggest edits, add ads with the author's approval, and provide traffic via their search engine. ... It's much more likely that Google is jealously eyeing the massive traffic that flows through its search engine to Wikipedia.'

Adobe Open Sources BlazeDS

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:15:00 EST

Adobe is open sourcing the remoting and messaging technologies in its commercial LiveCycle Data Services ES - Adobe's route to the Internet - as a new product called BlazeDS. The widgetry, along with the Action Message Format (AMF) protocol specification, is being sent into the wild under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL v3), making Adobe the first major company to use the little-used new license. Public betas are out at labs.adobe.com.

Adobe Hits Record Revenues

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:45:00 EST

Adobe earned $222.2 million, or 38 cents a share, up 21%, on record fourth-quarter revenues of $911.2 million, up 34% year-over-year, exceeding the company's revenue target of $860 million-$890 million. It attributed the results to Acrobat, its Creative Suite 3 products and momentum in its enterprise business. Creative Suite 3, which started coming out in April, includes upgrades to Photoshop, Illustrator and software acquired with Macromedia like Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks. On a non-GAAP basis Adobe earned 49 cents in Q4, a penny more than Wall Street expected.

NetSuite IPO Flies Up, Up and Away

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:30:00 EST

First on Tuesday the number went from $13-$16 to $16-$19 and then on Wednesday to $19-$22 only to finally settle Wednesday night at $26 (after Oracle posted its latest glorious numbers), meaning NetSuite has raised almost $161.2 million and got itself a market cap of upwards of $1.5 billion - more than enough to pay Larry back the $8 million it owes him. The auction was supposed to price the shares closer to their actual market value than a typical IPO, which usually prices shares at a discount. Naturally, there are those who say the thing is overvalued. They've had practice saying that lately about VMware and VMware is in a lot better place than NetSuite. Ah, but the glamour of the Ellison name.

High-Tech Public Relations and Alan Zeichick of SD Times - Analyze This!

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:45:00 EST

Within minutes of my blog entry, I received the strangest email notification, alerting me to another blog written by Alan Zeichick, 'co-founder and editorial director of BZ Media, which publishes SD Times and Software Test & Performance, and which also produces the Software Security Summit, Software Test & Performance Conference, and EclipseWorld. Also president and principal analyst of Camden Associates.' That's what his bio says.

Katerina Muchachos, Kayikci and SOA World

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:00:00 EST

I asked what she did for a living. She said she was a software engineer working with SOA. I did not think about my plane ride much until I arrived in San Francisco to attend the SOA World Conference & Expo this past Monday and Tuesday. The first day of the conference as I walked into the hotel, guess who I saw? My friend who I met on the Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul. What a small world, isn't it? Her company was one of the sponsors of the event.

Two Roads "on Target" at SOA World Conference & Expo in San Francisco

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:45:00 EST

Two Roads focuses on partnering with Information Technology to control and streamline the process of securing candidates, explains Two Roads' Ron Terry. 'We are able to accomplish this by working with the hiring managers to assess skills and company culture, which helps us to secure active and passive candidates. We also simplify the process of securing the right talent by locating, screening (by phone and in person), reference checking and scheduling the interview based on our consultation with the hiring manager.'

Amanda Chapel An Anonymous Public Relations Blogger

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:00:00 EDT

Buongiorno, il mio nome Amanda Chapel. I have 15 plus years experience in marketing communications. I am a former vice president in the Consumer Marketing Group at Weber Shandwick, one of the world's largest PR firms. Prior to Shandwick, I spent about 10 years bouncing around various top agencies. This includes senior posts at Cone Communications in Boston and Porter Novelli in Chicago. I cut my teeth at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising in London.

Bodrum, Turkey and Mykonos, Greece

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:00:00 EDT

This 4th of July marked my sixth visit to the Divan Palmira Hotel in Bodrum, Turkey. My visit this year, which was quite different then the quiet escapes I've had in past years, prompted me to write a review for the first time. The Divan Palmira Hotel is located in the Golturkbuku region of Bodrum. Two recent cover stories published last year in The New York Times Travel Section called this Aegien Sea summer destination, The St. Tropez of Turkey.

Million Dollar Docks for Your Yacht in South Florida

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:30:00 EDT

If your goal is to have your yacht docked in your backyard, this high-end realtor can have you settled in in no time. Peggy Turk is the type of realtor most people never meet. After all, how many people shop for homes ranging from $2-45 million? And how many shop for them by boat? Turk specializes in the area of South Florida where her customers are seeking a certain lifestyle. They love boating or yachting, they want to live in a community that's a vacation-type area, and most of all, according to Turk, they want to have fun!