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Bill Roth
Bill Roth is a member of the editorial boards of both JDJ and WLDJ. He is Vice President of the BEA Workshop Business Unit. Prior to this he was Chief Technical Evangelist for Epiphany. With over 19 years in this industry, he has played numerous product marketing, product management and engineering roles at companies like Sun and Morgan Stanley. |
We Are on the Cusp of
Fundamental Change, with
iPods and Web 2.0:Chuang By Bill Roth  Alfred Chuang started out
by talking about his core
believe that we are on
the cusp of fundamental
change, with the advent
of iPods, Web 2.0, and
social networks. He
started with a discussion
of Mashups, and talked
about how most of them
are consumer facing. He
th... Sep. 21, 2007 05:45 PM Reads: 12,693 Replies: 2 | The Most Annoying Aspect
of Web 2.0 By Bill Roth One of the more annoying
aspects of Web 2.0, etc.,
is the injection of
neologisms, protologisms,
or just plan made up
words. In fact, I do not
think that I have heard a
talk from my friends Jay
Simons or David Meyer in
the last year that has
not included a
protolo... Sep. 13, 2007 02:15 PM Reads: 6,856 Replies: 1 | Semantic Web The Next Big
Thing? By Bill Roth Now for the obvious
question. Why is all this
abstruse research
relevant to business? To
answer that, you have to
go back to first
principles. What is
enterprise software all
about? Automation. Taking
people out of the loop.
Improving cycle time.
Improving respons... Jul. 26, 2007 05:30 PM Reads: 6,867 Replies: 2 | Shameless Online
Marketing: BEA Workshop
Studio for $99! By Bill Roth TheServerSide and BEA
have come together to
offer TSS readers BEA
Workshop Studio 3.3,
normally $899 USD, for
$99 USD until May 31,
2007. This is part of
what will become
integrated with Workshop
for WebLogic 10
(announced yesterday on
TSS), and contains many
of... May. 21, 2007 06:30 PM Reads: 7,730 Replies: 2 | JavaOne - Day One
Keynotes By Bill Roth JavaOne never ceases to
amaze me. Year after
year, I expect the show
to be a flop. This year
is no exception. I am
wrong again this year. In
my cab ride from my hotel
in the Theatre District,
I can see hundreds of
attendees (obviously
developers) trekking
their wa... May. 9, 2007 09:15 PM Reads: 12,357 Replies: 2 | JavaOne 2007 Predictions By Bill Roth Last year, I took a stab
at predictions as to what
Sun would announce at the
11th annual JavaOne. This
year, for JavaOne 2007,
I'll take a stab at what
Sun and some of the other
major vendors will
announce. It will be
fairly easy to predict
the major themes from the... Apr. 23, 2007 05:30 PM Reads: 6,070 Replies: 1 | BEA Systems' AJAX Survey By Bill Roth We need your help. My
team is trying to
understand the demand for
AJAX, in all its forms.
Could you take a few
minutes and answer a
short survey? We're also
offering an incentive. By
taking the survey, you
will have a chance to
receive a $100 Amazon
gift certifica... Jan. 23, 2007 06:15 PM Reads: 13,982 Replies: 1 | Ubuntu Server 6.10 and
WebLogic Workshop 9.2 By Bill Roth In this post, I will be
recounting my experience
with Ubuntu server 6.10,
WebLogic Workshop 9.2,
and REST. Note: This in
no way implies support of
any kind from me or BEA.
This is just the personal
experiences of someone
who can not keep his
hands off the keyboard. ... Jan. 21, 2007 06:30 PM Reads: 18,104 Replies: 1 | BEA World 2006: Beijing
Day One By Bill Roth Day one of BEA World
started out with the
usual fanfare at a packed
hall, and our Liquid
Thinking video in
Chinese. The master of
ceremonies was Sichen Yu,
one of the key technical
people in China. Marcus
Tsoi, the General Manager
of our China business
then kicked... Dec. 13, 2006 11:15 AM Reads: 8,974 | Java 6 Shows Up By Bill Roth Java 6 is has been
announced on Monday.
While not really a
blockbuster release, it
has some useful features.
First, XML processing,
via JAXP and JAXB are now
standard. I believe that
Sun is also removing some
APIs for the first time.
In addition, the
inclusion of ... Dec. 12, 2006 02:15 PM Reads: 9,463 Replies: 1 | Oracle OpenWorld: Sound
and Fury, Signifying
Almost Nothing By Bill Roth A week ago, I attempted
some predictions on what
Oracle would announce at
OOW. I would like to
review how I did. But
first a few general
comments. First off, what
a boring conference! Not
a log of news, except for
Linux, and everyone
including me knew it was
comin... Oct. 29, 2006 12:30 PM Reads: 8,355 Replies: 1 | Oracle Will Make Its
"Unbreakable Linux"
Announcement Tomorrow in
Ellison's Keynote By Bill Roth Latest update I have is
that Oracle will make its
Linux announcement on
Wednesday in Larry's
Keynote. He'll call it
'Unbreakable Linux'. Now
how they will position it
as non-competitive when
it takes revenue away
from RH remains to be
seen. Oct. 24, 2006 03:30 PM Reads: 6,655 Replies: 1 | What Oracle Will Announce
This Week: Predictions By Bill Roth Oracle OpenWorld is this
week, so expect an
avalanche of
announcements by the
company about their
various efforts. OK, so
the title is misleading.
I admit I do not
*actually* know what
Oracle is going to
announce, but it is not
hard to figure out what's
coming. ... Oct. 24, 2006 07:45 AM Reads: 8,930 Replies: 3 | BEA Exec Re-states BEA's
Position on Open Source By Bill Roth It is the day before BEA
World Prague, and it
seems like a good time to
revisit what BEA's
position on open source
is. As I travel across
the globe, I have been
describing our position
to developers, and they
instinctively understand
it. I wanted to write it
down,... Oct. 9, 2006 03:45 PM Reads: 10,219 | BEA on AJAX By Bill Roth BEA has a broad ranging
AJAX strategy. It extends
across our tooling,
server and portal product
lines. In general, BEA
views AJAX as a nascent
technology, but are keen
to deliver users the
ability to build and use
applications with AJAX
attributes. Sep. 19, 2006 06:15 PM Reads: 9,201 Replies: 4 | Ubuntu and BEA Workshop
Studio By Bill Roth  I work in Building 2 on
the 4th floor of BEA's
Corporate offices. I had
moved into a new office,
when I noticed a box of
CDs on the filing cabinet
near my office... Jul. 27, 2006 02:30 PM Reads: 7,920 | JavaOne 2006: Day Two -
Oracle Keynote By Bill Roth It's Day Two of JavaOne
and I am covering the
Oracle Keynote to see how
they spin their Fusion
vision today.
Preparations for our
Keynote are going well
and we're getting good
visibility . The keynote
started out with an
obilgatory corporate
video, with the tag li... May. 17, 2006 01:45 PM Reads: 7,326 Replies: 1 | JavaOne 2006: JavaOne Sun
Keynote Day 1 By Bill Roth John Gage did his usual
MC, routine. Then
Jonathan Schwartz came on
stage, and started off by
somewhat inexplicably
offered a download of
hardware, the new Niagra
boxes. He then brought Ed
Zander on stage, who was
in town for the Gartner
symposium. Ed was the
form... May. 16, 2006 03:30 PM Reads: 7,217 Replies: 1 | JavaOne: A Look Back, and
Predictions For This Year By Bill Roth Back in the day, the real
decision on what to
announce during JavaOne
didn't really happen
until the week before the
show. (They could use it
as a forum to announce
their new CEO, but I will
stay away from that one.)
However, if I had to bet
on what Sun will
annou... May. 1, 2006 02:15 PM Reads: 10,414 Replies: 2 | Bill Roth's Blog on
Oracle JBoss Acquisition:
"BEA Workshop for JBoss" By Bill Roth It is rumored on a couple
of news sites that Oracle
is buying JBoss. If this
is true, it is an
exciting opportunity for
BEA. Oracle would, IMHO,
kill JBoss, whether
through malice or benign
neglect. Not many people
realize that with the
acquisition of M7, BEA
now ... Feb. 10, 2006 11:30 PM Reads: 10,759 Replies: 4 | Service-Oriented
Architecture Best
Practices By Bill Roth The concept of a
service-oriented
architecture is a
powerful tool for
simplifying enterprise
integration. Following
the three principles of
modularity, encapsulation
and loose coupling will
achieve some amount of
improvement for an
individual service. It is
insu... Feb. 2, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 19,484 Replies: 1 | Slashdot Enters the
Political Arena By Bill Roth 'With the advent of the
Digital Millennium
Copyright Act and the
Induce act, the technical
community can no longer
be uninvolved,' says Jeff
'Hemos' Bates, vice
president of editorial
operations and executive
editor of Slashdot.org.
'Part of the reasons that
the D... Oct. 9, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 10,352 Replies: 2 | Linux and Public Safety By Bill Roth On June 30, IBM and two
U.S. senators announced
the initial deployment of
a system to link local
Mississippi law
enforcement agencies to a
single database of public
safety information. The
federally funded project
will deliver public
safety information across
Miss... Aug. 31, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,398 | LinuxWorld, San
Francisco: "We View
Cloudscape As Important
As Eclipse," Says IBM By Bill Roth IBM and the Apache
Foundation announced that
IBM is contributing the
Cloudscape product it
acquired from Informix to
the Apache open source
program. The project name
for the effort will be
'Derby.' The contribution
amounts to more than
500,000 lines of Java
cod... Aug. 6, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 23,638 | LinuxWorld, San
Francisco: Day One
Keynote Report By Bill Roth Orbitz's CTO Chris Hjelms
and Red Hat's CEO Matthew
Szulik between them
provided an adrenalin
injection for the Linux
faithful - and food for
thought for the naysayers
- when they delivered the
opening keynote at the
LinuxWorld Conference &
Expo yesterday here in
San Francisco. Aug. 4, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,502 | LinuxWorld, San
Francisco: "We Lead App
Server Market on Linux,"
Says BEA By Bill Roth While the big market
share gainers in 2003
were not IBM and BEA,
but Oracle and JBoss,
both of which bucked the
deflationary trend in the
enterprise software
market, BEA has been
pointing out in the
run-up to LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo today
that it was named ... Aug. 3, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 13,975 | LinuxWorld, San
Francisco: More Buzz
Around Beehive By Bill Roth The so-called 'Beehive'
and 'Pollinate' projects
will be riding the next
wave of Open Source
innovation, if things go
according to plan for
BEA's scheme to release
the source code for a
large portion of its
application development
framework for WebLogic
Workshop. Aug. 3, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 21,157 | The New Campaign By Bill Roth Democrats are taking full
advantage of Linux and
open source software
(OSS) in their bid to win
the White House in 2004.
Leveraging the successful
e-campaign strategies
pioneered by Howard Dean
during the primary
season, all of the
democratic candidates
embraced L... Jul. 27, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 12,920 | Linux in Government: A
Growing Sector By Bill Roth A Mississippi-based
project involving IBM and
Novell's SUSE LINUX
underlines the growing
importance of Linux in
the government sector.
The State of Mississippi
Automated System Project
(ASP) will provide local
officials with real-time
access to public safety
infor... Jul. 2, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 12,626 | McNealy at JavaOne:
"Somebody Has to Be in
Charge of Java, or No One
Is." By Bill Roth Scott McNealy held court
yesterday at JavaOne,
giving a keynote
presentation in which he
was more subdued than
usual, but which covered
every issue from Sun's
hardware and software
offerings to its position
on open source. JDJ
editorial board member
Bill Roth was ... Jun. 30, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 22,114 Replies: 2 | Java in the News: Sun's
JavaOne Day One -
First-Hand Report By Bill Roth With demo after demo
designed to dispel the
notion that Java is not
performant and a host of
announcements concerning
everything from the
open-sourcing of Java 3D
to the new versioning
system for the Java
platform, Sun's top
executives opened the 9th
annual JavaOn... Jun. 29, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 22,915 | Taking the World by Storm By Bill Roth Linux is taking the world
of Java application
servers by storm.
Recently, Sun
Microsystems hosted an
event to tout the
adoption of the latest
version of the enterprise
Java platform, known as
Java 2 platform,
Enterprise Edition, or
simply J2EE 1.4. At this
eve... Jun. 15, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 23,616 | The Theory of Innovation By Bill Roth; Reza Behforooz We know from the theory
of relativity that the
passage of time is
relative to the
perceiver. This is true
of history as well.
Sometimes history moves
fast, e.g., during World
War II and when communism
was crumbling in 1989.
Sometimes history moves
slowly, as in th... Jun. 3, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,891 | Java on Linux: State of
the Union By Bill Roth Linux is making huge
gains as the platform of
choice for developing and
deploying enterprise Java
applications. Sun has
seen more than 1 million
downloads of the Linux
version of its latest
application server
release, and all
application server
vendors uniformly a... May. 1, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 24,828 Replies: 11 | J2EE v1.4 By Bill Roth This talk will review the
evolution of the J2EE
platform, and discuss its
future, with an emphasis
on crucial issues to be
addressed in order to
avoid the looming
disaster of
fragmentation. Feb. 25, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 12,953 | In Medias Res By Bill Roth JavaOne always provides
plenty of food for
thought. JavaOne 2003 was
no exception. This year,
Alan Williamson, our
beloved editor-in-chief,
organized a
'birds-of-a-feather'
session for the JDJ
editorial board. This is
quite an auspicious
bunch, and this session
... Jul. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 10,871 | J2EE, Democracy, and
Sausage By Bill Roth Back in the beginning of
October, I was dragged
into the middle of a
raging e-mail argument.
The argument was whether
J2EE was a success, and
if it was too
complicated. This was
like waving a red cape in
front of a Spanish bull.
I felt then, as I feel
now, compelled to
respond. Dec. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 13,392 |
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