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Roger Strukhoff
Roger Strukhoff spent 15 years with Miller Freeman Publications and The International Data Group (IDG), then co-founded CoverOne Media, a custom publishing agency that he sold in 2004. His work has won awards from the American Business Media, Western Press Association, Illinois Press Association, and the Magazine Publishers Association. |
The Business Value of an
SOA Strategy By Roger Strukhoff  After IMPACT 2007 in
Orlando, Java Developer's
Journal had the
opportunity to talk with
Sandy Carter about IBM's
new SOA announcements at
the event, as she is
responsible for driving
IBM's cross-company,
worldwide SOA marketing
initiatives. Jul. 12, 2007 08:00 PM Reads: 12,523 Replies: 1 | AJAX World Editorial
— Taking AJAX
Seriously By Roger Strukhoff  Over the past two years,
AJAX as a general
technological approach
seems to be maturing very
quickly. I won't bore
this magazine's savvy
audience by recounting
for the umpteenth time
how, when, and by whom
the term was coined, and
I fully realize that many
of you h... Jul. 11, 2007 06:45 AM Reads: 9,775 Replies: 1 | CFDJ Editorial —
Scorpio Becomes Beta By Roger Strukhoff  Roman astrology turned
into the Greek alphabet
recently, with the
announcement that the
previously named
'Scorpio' has been
released as the
ColdFusion 8 Beta.
Initial reaction from the
most sophisticated
members of the CF
community was positive. Jul. 3, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 15,653 | Creative Integration at
Adobe By Roger Strukhoff  The increasing
integration of Adobe and
former Macromedia
products continues with
Creative Suite 3, which
is available in a version
targeted specifically to
Web developers and
designers. Designers
today - whether they
started in an era of
X-acto knives and border ... Jun. 2, 2007 05:30 PM Reads: 18,423 | Virtualization in Media:
Microsoft Latest to
Expand Media Mogul
Aspirations By Roger Strukhoff The report that Microsoft
is buying local digital
marketing shop Aquantive
for six BILLION dollars
shows that if we're not
in a new bubble, we're in
something that sure looks
and feels like the real
thing. Redmond seems bent
on regaining consumer
computing supremacy... May. 18, 2007 03:00 PM Reads: 11,032 Replies: 1 | Former CA CEO Joins
LogMeIn Board of
Directors By Roger Strukhoff  Before forming Uproar,
Cron spent nearly two
decades at CMP Media
where under his
leadership the company
grew from an information
technology trade
publishing company into a
global, publicly traded
media multinational. As
CMP's President,
Publishing, Cron was
res... May. 17, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 14,537 Replies: 4 | Hurd Outlines HP's
Internal Virtualization By Roger Strukhoff Mark Hurd said that HP
had more than 700
datamarts, 87
datacenters, 20 petabytes
of non-shared storage,
and were running on 5,000
applications. Since his
arrival in 2004, the
company has reduced the
number of datacenters to
three and consolidated
9,000 servers 'by... May. 10, 2007 09:15 PM Reads: 12,792 Replies: 1 | Adobe Was at the
Forefront From the
Beginning With Its
Postscript Fonts By Roger Strukhoff  Development and Design
are two sides of the same
coin in the digital age,
and it is very nice to
consider in any case how
well these two formerly
separate worlds have come
together over the past
two decades. Adobe was at
the forefront from the
beginning, with its
... Apr. 24, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 22,665 | AJAX and Simpler Times By Roger Strukhoff  We live in the eternal
present, yet think mostly
about the future and the
past. When we are able to
stop time and consider
what's going on 'right
now' or 'these days,' we
often think about how our
lives and times used to
be simpler. How often do
you recount stories ... Nov. 5, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 15,780 | RIA AJAX Atlas Revolution By Roger Strukhoff  'Ease-of-use' is one of
those buzz terms that
software marketeers
routinely inject into
their promotional copy to
describe their product.
The term is one of those
unarguable concepts;
after all, who's not in
favor of ease-of-use? Sep. 24, 2006 04:45 PM Reads: 18,307 Replies: 8 | DNDJ Editorial —
Tools of the Trade By Roger Strukhoff  Last month, we addressed
platonic concepts in this
space, albeit in as
surface-level a way as
possible. Just added a
little pretentiousness to
what could have otherwise
been a deadly dull
column. The topic of hand
was 'ease-of-use' and the
practical reality of
ach... Sep. 22, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 15,878 | Flashback to January
2006: Exclusive
SYS-CON.TV Interviews on
"OpenAjax Alliance"
Announcement By Roger Strukhoff IBM is taking the lead
role in rolling out an
'OpenAjax' initiative
that seems sure to add
significant momentum to
recent grassroots efforts
to bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
... Sep. 21, 2006 07:30 PM Reads: 125,828 Replies: 21 | AJAX and Simpler Times By Roger Strukhoff  We live in the eternal
present, yet think mostly
about the future and the
past. When we are able to
stop time and consider
what's going on 'right
now' or 'these days,' we
often think about how our
lives and times used to
be simpler. How often do
you recount stories ... Sep. 14, 2006 02:15 PM Reads: 23,414 Replies: 6 | Sun Was Concerned About
Eclipse in OpenAJAX By Roger Strukhoff Dan Roberts, Director of
Developer Tools at Sun
Microsystems, discussed
the company's recent
decision to join the
IBM-led OpenAJAX
Alliance, in an exclusive
SYS-CON interview. He was
joined by Sun AJAX
Architect Greg Murray in
the interview, who
discussed the impo... Jun. 24, 2006 10:30 AM Reads: 17,367 Replies: 2 | Analyst Booted Off Net
Neutrality Conference
Call By Roger Strukhoff Tne Net Neutrality
bandwagon has added a new
gear with the passage of
a bill that favors telcos
over Net Neutrality
proponents. There are
several opinions in this
debate, and one
certitude: if you
question at least one
group too persistently,
you get disinvited from
the discussion. Jun. 9, 2006 05:15 PM Reads: 22,151 | Is God on the Side of Net
Neutrality? By Roger Strukhoff The 'Net Neutrality'
debate is heating up in
Washington, DC and around
the U.S., as legislation
that may determine a key
aspect of the future of
the Internet as we know
it works its way through
Congress. On the surface,
it seems to be a simple
matter of giant telcos... Jun. 9, 2006 12:30 PM Reads: 17,890 | The More Things Change,
the More They Change By Roger Strukhoff  If you don't like change,
stay away from the
software development
world. But if you embrace
change, then these are
among the most exciting,
if volatile, times in
years. Jun. 6, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 16,337 Replies: 1 | IBM's David Boloker
Delivers Deep View of
OpenAjax Alliance By Roger Strukhoff David Boloker talked
about 'the promise of
richer user interfaces,
encompassing all devices'
during his presentation
at the Real-World Ajax
Seminar at the Roosevelt
Hotel in New York on June
5. Jun. 5, 2006 12:45 PM Reads: 21,221 | SOA Web Services Edge:
Cassatt CEO Bill Coleman
Delivers Keynote By Roger Strukhoff Cassatt CEO Bill Coleman
outlined a vision of the
future in which broadband
access, open source
software, and the
creation of true
service-oriented
architectures (SOAs)
deliver a variety of
services to customers who
are given much more
choice than they are
given today. Jun. 5, 2006 09:00 AM Reads: 19,509 | Sun Wields Ax; Aiming For
Savings In The Hundreds
Of Millions Of Dollars By Roger Strukhoff An 11-13% workforce
reduction and the
consolidation of its real
estate portfolio are just
two of the measures that
Sun's CEO Jonathan
Schwartz and his CFO
Michael Lehman announced
after what they called
'their comprehensive
review of Sun's entire
global operations.' Jun. 2, 2006 12:45 PM Reads: 29,992 Replies: 3 | Did SAP Get the AJAX
Memo? By Roger Strukhoff Contrasting events in May
showed a clear difference
in perspective over AJAX,
considered by some to be
the number one story in
the IT world today.
Whereas AJAX was the main
story at JavaOne in San
Francisco, it was nowhere
to be found across the
continent at Sapphire '06
in Orlando. Jun. 2, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 16,023 | AJAX Cleans Up at JavaOne
2006 in San Francisco By Roger Strukhoff Ajax was the word of the
day and talk of the town
during the recent JavaOne
2006 Conference in San
Francisco. This was
probably not the largest
JavaOne ever, but had to
rank among the strangest
with a distinctly
non-Java technology
dominating every
conversation an... May. 31, 2006 02:30 PM Reads: 14,393 | Sun Gains Server Market
Share; Linux Continues to
Grow By Roger Strukhoff A new report from Gartner
Dataquest allows company
spokespeople and
commentators to have fun
with numbers. The net
result of the report is
that there's just enough
good news to make
everyone cautiously
optimistic. May. 30, 2006 10:00 PM Reads: 17,511 | Bloggers = Journalists,
Says California Court;
Apple Loses By Roger Strukhoff A three-member panel from
a California State
Appeals Court has ruled
in favor of bloggers who
revealed information
about Apple Computer from
confidential sources,
only to earn the legal
ire of the
Cupertino-based icon. No
less a personage than
Walkter Cronkite was... May. 30, 2006 12:30 PM Reads: 20,351 Replies: 4 | Yahoo and eBay Team to
Take on Google By Roger Strukhoff Yahoo and eBay have
announced a multi-year
'strategic partnership'
with four major
components: search (along
with graphical
advertising), online
payments, a co-branded
toolbar, and the emerging
'click-to-call'
functionality. The
companies said their
agreement wi... May. 26, 2006 10:45 AM Reads: 17,455 | SYS-CON i-Technology
Podcast: Enron and SOX,
Net Neutrality In the
News By Roger Strukhoff The conviction of Kenneth
Lay and Jeffrey Skilling
was in no small part to
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
legislation. Does this
mean the government has
done something right?
Does it mean the
government may be on the
right track on another
issue, Net Neutrality? May. 25, 2006 05:15 PM Reads: 17,626 Replies: 1 | AJAX Was On Everyone's
Mind, Web 2.0 Too... By Roger Strukhoff 'J2EE is so dead, beyond
dead,' said a prominent
AJAX consultant to this
reporter in an unguarded
moment. His sentiment was
reflected by a number of
people at the recent
JavaOne 2006 conference.
But hey, 'not so fast,'
say many others. May. 22, 2006 10:45 AM Reads: 18,009 Replies: 5 | OpenAjax Alliance "Not
Trying to Create a
Standards Body or a
Product" By Roger Strukhoff Representatives from
OpenAjax member companies
met over a two-day period
recently, and emerged
with an important
semantic change from
referring to OpenAjax as
a collaboration to
calling it the OpenAjax
Alliance. They also
decided to focus on
interoperability as th... May. 18, 2006 11:30 AM Reads: 18,121 Replies: 1 | JavaOne 2006: "Not a
Question of Whether, But
of How" By Roger Strukhoff Sun retained a certain
ambivalence toward the
whole 'open' question
during the keynote
presentation at JavaOne
2006 in San Francisco.
And we didn't have Scott
McNealy to kick around
Microsoft and IBM
anymore. Altogether it
made for a lackluster
presentation, at le... May. 17, 2006 11:15 AM Reads: 22,487 | WebSphere vs WebLogic:
IBM and BEA Spar Over
SPEC Results By Roger Strukhoff  Benchmarks can mean
whatever you want them to
mean, it has always
seemed. Although useful
as a rough guide to
performance, and
sometimes
price/performance,
technology companies are
famous for interpreting
complex benchmark results
as victories over their
competi... May. 16, 2006 01:30 PM Reads: 27,031 Replies: 2 | BEA Systems and
BlueDragon: A Blended
Development By Roger Strukhoff  After BEA's announcement
regarding their release
of the BlueDragon BEA
WebLogic Server, SYS-CON
Media had the chance to
talk with Blake Connell. May. 15, 2006 12:45 PM Reads: 23,144 Replies: 1 | Sun Offers "No Comment"
on IBM-Driven OpenAjax By Roger Strukhoff Dan Roberts, Director of
Developer Tools Marketing
at Sun Microsystems, said
the company is open to
talking to IBM about the
Open AJAX initiative.
'We're not sure exactly
what the initiative
means, what its goals
are, and so we are open
to a dialog (with IBM)
abou... May. 12, 2006 09:30 AM Reads: 15,732 | Microsoft and IBM in the
Age of AJAX and Web 2.0 By Roger Strukhoff All companies, and
especially companies with
the mass of an IBM or
Microsoft must integrate
The Big View into their
Big Revenues and Big Cash
Stacks. It is good for
business to do so. It
also happens to be good
for society. Microsoft,
where are you going
today? May. 10, 2006 10:00 AM Reads: 16,264 Replies: 1 | Microsoft AdCenter and
New Direction Panned By Roger Strukhoff Industry commentator
Dwight Davis told us,
'Having a solid ad
management and
distribution engine is an
important part of
Microsoft's belated
response, but it isn't
the only necessary
element. Unless Microsoft
can make its search
engine -- and other
online servic... May. 5, 2006 08:30 AM Reads: 17,242 Replies: 1 | Podcast: Storage Company
Quantum Acquires ADIC,
Battles Sun, HP, and IBM By Roger Strukhoff Storage and Enterprise IT
Analyst Marc Farley
comments on the newly
announced Quantum
acquisition of ADIC. The
$770 million acquisition
can be viewed as a
defensive move, but it
also strengthens
Quantum's story while
competing against major
enterprise IT vendors S... May. 4, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 19,506 Replies: 1 | SYS-CON Podcast: Java
Testing Expert Frank
Cohen on XML, and AJAX By Roger Strukhoff SYS-CON author Frank
Cohen, who also authored
the book 'Java Testing
and Design,' appeared
with SYS-CON West Coast
Bureau Chief Roger
Strukhoff and IT Analyst
Marc Farley on a recent
'TechMash' podcast, in
which he addressed the
challenges of developing
and deploy... May. 2, 2006 10:15 PM Reads: 20,740 Replies: 1 | SYS-CON Podcast: AJAX,
Net Neutrality, and
Microsoft Considered By Roger Strukhoff The growing influence of
AJAX has been featured at
SYS-CON events over the
past several weeks, with
a primary focus on the
developer side of the
equation. But what about
the IT management
aspects. Enterprise IT
analyst Marc Farley joins
Roger Strukhoff in a
discus... May. 1, 2006 08:00 AM Reads: 20,243 Replies: 1 | SOA Web Services Leader
Bill Coleman: "Software
Isn't IT Anymore!" By Roger Strukhoff Bill Coleman is founer
and CEO of Cassatt Corp.
Prior to that, he
co-founded BEA Systems,
and also served as Vice
President of System
Software at Sun
Microsystems. He will be
keynoting SYS-CON?s Web
Services Edge Conference
and Exhibition at the
Roosevelt Hotel in... Apr. 28, 2006 04:00 PM Reads: 23,773 Replies: 1 | SYS-CON i-Technology
Podcast: Storage Analyst
Marc Farley Comments on
Sun By Roger Strukhoff Marc Farley, president of
Building Storage, Inc.,
was interviewed by
SYS-CON West Coast Bureau
Chief Roger Strukhoff
about the CEO transition
at Sun, specifically
about how Sun's storage
strategy was, in his
opinion, a bad deal at
the time and one that
does not bo... Apr. 27, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 17,804 Replies: 4 | Sun's McNealy Steps Down
as CEO: "This Isn't About
Me" By Roger Strukhoff Sun Microsystems Chairman
Scott McNealy
relinquished his
long-held CEO position on
Monday, April 24,
announcing it at the end
of a conference call just
as an official press
release about the
transition hit the wires.
Sun's stock was up in
after-hours trading. Apr. 24, 2006 07:30 PM Reads: 23,148 Replies: 3 |
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