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Jeremy Geelan
Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo series, of the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAXWorld Magazine and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV. |
As Oracle Recommits to
Java, Sun Sweeps 2005
RCAs By Jeremy Geelan  Every year for the past
10 years, SYS-CON Media's
'Readers' Choice Awards'
have given the multiple
constituencies we serve -
developers, architects,
IT managers, vendors - a
chance to exercise their
democratic rights, not
just through the ballot
box but also through... Feb. 11, 2006 02:45 PM Reads: 19,700 Replies: 3 | Adobe Has Inherited Web
History from
Macromedia... By Jeremy Geelan One of the 'inflexion
points' of the
development of the Web,
when commentators and
analysts draw breath for
long enough to chronicle
its history, is certain
to be the day that
Google, through first
Gmail and then Google
Maps, opened the eyes of
millions to the fac... Feb. 8, 2006 03:30 AM Reads: 30,719 Replies: 2 | Google Images Vindicated
in Latest "Censorship"
Alert By Jeremy Geelan Charles Arthur, editor of
'Technology Guardian' - a
section of the UK
national Daily The
Guardian - thought he was
on to something big. But
the blogosphere quickly
corrected him. The net
result? A triumph for
Capitalism - literally!!
Read on for the
explanation... Jan. 31, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 13,355 Replies: 3 | The Week in Microsoft:
Redmond Reports
Record-High Quarter
– $11.84BN By Jeremy Geelan Kevin Turner, chief
operating officer at
Microsoft, and the
company's CFO Chris
Liddell were able on
Thursday to announce
revenue of $11.84 billion
for the quarter ended
December 31, 2005, a 9%
increase over the same
period of the prior year,
marking the highest
... Jan. 29, 2006 06:15 PM Reads: 13,439 | Java, .NET, SOA, Web
Services, Linux, XML,
Open Source and AJAX
Predictions for 2006 By Jeremy Geelan  This is traditionally the
time of year for SYS-CON
Media's roundup of
i-Technology predictions
from around the Web and
the year's harvest of
thoughts and viewpoints.
According to our
worldwide network of
software development
activists, evangelists,
and executives,... Jan. 18, 2006 08:15 AM Reads: 31,002 | Oracle-Sun Announcement:
Sun's Schwartz Sets the
Record Straight By Jeremy Geelan  'Please don't read
[anything] in to my not
being at Sun's recent
announcement with
Oracle,' wrote Sun's
president and COO
Jonathan Schwartz the
weekend after Sun
(represented not by
Jonathan but by Scott
McNealy) and Oracle
(represented by Larry
Ellison) announc... Jan. 17, 2006 02:45 AM Reads: 23,956 Replies: 1 | Sun & Oracle: McNealy and
Ellison Strive to "Make
History" By Jeremy Geelan 'We're going to
collaborate,
interoperate,
integrate...and really go
after what tends not to
be so open,' said Scott
McNealy and Larry Ellison
Tuesday as they made a
clear statement to both
employee bases that
Microsoft and IBM are the
competitors, not one
another. Jan. 12, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 21,154 Replies: 2 | Adobe Has Inherited Web
History from
Macromedia... By Jeremy Geelan  One of the 'inflexion
points' of the
development of the Web,
when commentators and
analysts draw breath for
long enough to chronicle
its history, is certain
to be the day that
Google, through first
Gmail and then Google
Maps, opened the eyes of
millions to the fac... Jan. 7, 2006 03:45 PM Reads: 17,191 Replies: 2 | When Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Starts Blogging, the Web
World Listens By Jeremy Geelan When the rest of us start
a blog we can do so
pretty much safe in the
knowledge that our entry
into the blogsophere will
be gradual, even
invisible. Not so when
you're Sir Tim
Berners-Lee, who's just
started one devoted to
his Semantic Web
interests. Jan. 1, 2006 02:45 PM Reads: 22,082 | The Shape of i-Technology
To Come: Predictions for
2006 By Jeremy Geelan This is traditionally the
time of year for SYS-CON
Media's round-up of
i-Technology predictions
from around the Web, and
this year's harvest of
thoughts and viewpoints
is more varied than ever.
2006 promises to be a
vintage year for software
development, according t... Dec. 31, 2005 07:15 AM Reads: 64,852 | "Thanks, But No Thanks"
– AOL Rebuffs
Microsoft, Sticks With
Google By Jeremy Geelan Published reports are
claiming that Google has
paid $1 billion to take a
5% stake in AOL, thereby
securing the significant
(10%) portion of its
annual sales that derives
from AOL. Dec. 18, 2005 04:15 AM Reads: 17,456 Replies: 1 | Accelerating Uphill:
Gravity-Defying
Businesses Will Win the
Race to be Great By Jeremy Geelan  Sometimes people ask me
what it takes to run a
successful business and
I, who know only the
media business, am always
hesitant to reply. What
could someone who has
'merely' spent the past
25 years exclusively in
publishing and
broadcasting via radio,
TV, print and... Dec. 15, 2005 03:30 AM Reads: 21,491 Replies: 1 | Web 2.0: You'd Have To Be
"Noisettes" Not To
Participate In It By Jeremy Geelan Gomez told the Mercury
News that his aim is to
'make Skype a household
name in North America,'
just as it already is in
Europe (from where Skype
originates, with its
Estonian engineers,
Danish co-founder Janus
Friis and Swedish CEO
Niklas Zennström) and the
Far Ea... Dec. 12, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 10,531 Replies: 3 | US Air Force To Invade
Cyberspace – Is
This the i-Technology
Story of the Year? By Jeremy Geelan If you thought that 2005
would end quietly in the
i-Technology world, think
again: it's going to end
with a rumpus, a furore,
an unprecedented
worldwide commotion.
Because the Secretary of
the US Air Force Michael
W. Wynne and Air Force
Chief of Staff Gen. T.
Mich... Dec. 9, 2005 08:00 AM Reads: 17,035 Replies: 2 | Java Exclusive Interview:
Precision Team Management By Jeremy Geelan  Nigel Cheshire's company,
Enerjy, has just launched
Enerjy CQ2, a code
quality solution for Java
development managers. In
this exclusive Q&A with
JDJ, Cheshire contends
that software quality
from 2002 to 2004 has
diminished: 'As an
industry, it's time to
take this problem
seriously.' Dec. 7, 2005 11:45 AM Reads: 17,194 Replies: 2 | Looking Back at Java:
"Java's Great Missed
Opportunity" By Jeremy Geelan The single thing that
Adam Kolawa in 2004
(prophetically) said he'd
like to change about
Java's history is its
separation from
Microsoft. 'I think it is
a shame that the
technologies from both
sides cannot be used
together,' he says, in an
exclusive interview with... Dec. 3, 2005 03:00 AM Reads: 45,028 Replies: 13 | Can Sun Make Itself "The
Dot in Web 2.0"? By Jeremy Geelan 'Sun is making the Java
Enterprise System, Sun N1
Management software and
Sun developer tools
available at no cost for
both development and
deployment,' the company
said yesterday, in an
announcement. The
announcement also said
that Sun is 'reaffirming
its commitm... Dec. 2, 2005 06:00 AM Reads: 8,690 | "Open Source is the
Future," Declares
Jonathan Schwartz In Bold
Bid to Make Sun
Software's Rock Star By Jeremy Geelan 'Sun is making the Java
Enterprise System, Sun N1
Management software and
Sun developer tools
available at no cost for
both development and
deployment,' said the
company in an
announcement yesterday.
The announcement added
that Sun is also
'reaffirming its
commi... Dec. 1, 2005 09:15 PM Reads: 31,494 | YV&C Editorial:
Megayachts, Sharks, and
Blue Marble By Jeremy Geelan  Did you know that in
November, Great White
Sharks congregate in the
waters around the
Farallon Islands, a
protected national marine
sanctuary located 26
miles outside of San
Francisco Bay? Or that
Makauba marble from
Brazil is blue? Or that
the average cost of the... Dec. 1, 2005 01:45 PM Reads: 18,611 Replies: 2 | i-Technology Blog: Can
Blogging Change the
World? By Jeremy Geelan In a wonderfully
eccentric posting last
week entitled 'Does the
old school accept
blogging?' Alan
Williamson suggests not
only that I am a late
adopter to the world of
blogging, dragged-relucta
ntly-into-the-future-thro
ugh-a-hedge-backwards
kind of thing, but also ... Nov. 27, 2005 07:00 AM Reads: 41,813 Replies: 1 | i-Technology Viewpoint:
Are We Blogging Each
Other To Death? By Jeremy Geelan  SYS-CON's Geelan takes on
both Nicholas Carr and
Dan Farber as he ponders
blogging in the context
of what he terms 'insight
capture' - and argues
that the volume of
insight worth capturing
in the blogosphere is no
great shakes. Nov. 24, 2005 08:30 AM Reads: 58,078 Replies: 1 | The Week in Microsoft:
Can the Creator of Lotus
Notes Also Reboot
Redmond? By Jeremy Geelan  One of the most
interesting facets of the
'Leaked Memo' incident
last week is not so much
what it reveals about
Microsoft's Bill Gates,
author of one of the two
leaked memos, as what it
tells us about the author
of the second one: Ray
Ozzie, the creator of
Lotus N... Nov. 12, 2005 08:15 PM Reads: 23,499 Replies: 1 | Ray Ozzie: Who Can Keep
Microsoft From "Growing
Old Inside"? By Jeremy Geelan  In this analysis,
published over at
SYS-CON.com, I attempt to
argue that one of the
memo-authors, Ray Ozzie
(48), is a better bet as
a successful leader in
the coming era of
Microsoft vs Google than
his close contemporaries
Bill Gates and Steve
Ballmer ? because h... Nov. 10, 2005 08:45 PM Reads: 10,988 Replies: 1 | Companies Who Dare to
"Disturb the Lexicon" Win By Jeremy Geelan  If successful trade expos
are a good barometer of
the market place (and
they are), then things
are going very well
indeed with the homegrown
category of apps named by
Macromedia (soon to
become Adobe), namely
'RIAs.' Which started me
thinking: to what extent
are t... Nov. 10, 2005 07:30 PM Reads: 22,100 Replies: 2 | Bill Gates' Microsoft Web
Services Memo Disclosed
By SOAP & RSS Pioneer
Dave Winer By Jeremy Geelan In an extraordinary
first, Dave Winer - best
known as editor of
Scripting News, the
weblog he started in
1997, and for pioneering
several Internet
standards in distributed
computing, including
SOAP, XML-RPC, RSS, OPML
and podcasting - has
obtained what he claims
... Nov. 9, 2005 08:15 AM Reads: 18,179 | Another Oracle CFO
Resigns; Greg Maffei Is
Leaving Larry After Just
5 Months By Jeremy Geelan 'Oracle's a great place,
a great opportunity, but
they have a fantastic CEO
and they're likely to
have that CEO for a long
time. It was not only a
case that he was not
leaving, but I was not
the obvious heir
apparent,' said Greg
Maffei yesterday as he
became Oracl... Nov. 4, 2005 04:30 AM Reads: 14,247 Replies: 2 | McNealy: "Sun Does Not
Favor Mega-Mergers" By Jeremy Geelan According to Sun, its
mergers and acquisitions
– unlike Oracle's,
Adobe's, and AT&T's
– aren't quick
fixes aimed at instantly
growing its customer
base. They're
'thoughtful, strategic
acquisitions that
complement and enhance
our historic strengths.'
... Oct. 29, 2005 06:15 AM Reads: 19,389 Replies: 1 | i-Technology Blog:
Zero-Cost Telephony, the
6-Ton Elephant in the
Telco Room By Jeremy Geelan In my view, GoogleTalk is
far better positioned to
take over the zero-cost
telephony market than
eBay ... How strange to
think that companies like
Cingular, Verizon, and
Sprint may very soon
simply be made irrelevant
by commercial
realizations like this of
the exp... Oct. 22, 2005 11:15 AM Reads: 36,724 Replies: 1 | Coexisting in the Java
Universe - An Interview
with WebRenderer's
Anthony Scotney By Jeremy Geelan  Anthony Scotney is a
science graduate of the
University of Tasmania
with majors in computer
science and information
systems. After graduating
he established JadeLiquid
Software Pty Ltd. to
develop software tools
that would enhance the
Java programming
language. Ja... Oct. 20, 2005 11:45 AM Reads: 32,941 Replies: 2 | MAX 2005 – "RIA
2.0" Begins Right Here In
Anaheim, CA By Jeremy Geelan  A week is a long time in
politics,' they always
say; but a week in the
world of technology is -
on occasion - longer than
anyone ever imagined.
This week's MAX, for
example, where many of
you will have picked up
this month's issue, may
seem to rush by - with
its s... Oct. 18, 2005 01:00 AM Reads: 20,947 Replies: 1 | Adobe/Macromedia -
Microsoft, Look Out! By Jeremy Geelan On April 18, 2005, as we
all know, Adobe Systems
Incorporated announced a
definitive agreement to
acquire Macromedia in an
all-stock transaction
valued at approximately
$3.4 billion. This is a
look back, sideways, and
forwards, based on what's
been happening since
then. Oct. 15, 2005 04:15 PM Reads: 61,792 Replies: 3 | Macromedia Studio: Soon
All the Guessing Will
End? By Jeremy Geelan  The same is true of the
technology world. But
nonetheless let us play a
very simple guessing
game: what technology was
this well-known writer
talking about when he
recently wrote about how
'a technology that
started out as nothing
more than an animation
program ha... Oct. 15, 2005 03:45 PM Reads: 18,351 Replies: 1 | i-Technology Viewpoint:
"Pessimism Leads to
Weakness, Optimism to
Power" By Jeremy Geelan  Sun and Google are going
to be teaming up to take
on Microsoft in its
holiest of holy markets,
the desktop. Could such
an alliance have been
dreamed of just one year
ago? The answer, of
course, is 'Yes!'
'Game-changing' is what a
disruptive company like
Google doe... Oct. 11, 2005 06:15 AM Reads: 55,197 Replies: 1 | JDJ Exclusive: First
"Post-Google" Q&A With
Sun About the Java
Desktop By Jeremy Geelan 'As a desktop Java
enthusiast,' says Sun's
director of Java Desktop
Engineering, Thorsten
Laux, 'what's
particularly compelling
about the new partnership
is the fact that Google
has shown Sun that the
JRE distribution channel
represents an
extraordinary value.' Th... Oct. 7, 2005 06:00 AM Reads: 26,445 Replies: 5 | Sun-Google Partnership:
Is It About Money, or
About Microsoft? By Jeremy Geelan 'There's going to be a
lot of money flowing both
ways if we do this thing
right,' said Scott
McNealy yesterday, in the
much-publicized press
conference he held with
Eric Schmidt in Mountain
View's Computer History
Museum. But are Sun and
Google teaming up just to
... Oct. 5, 2005 05:15 AM Reads: 23,662 Replies: 1 | Is the "Web" in "Web
Services" a Misnomer? By Jeremy Geelan  I know I shall be accused
of being old-fashioned,
but sometimes in order to
understand the present,
let alone the future, one
of the very best
starting-places is the
past. Take for example
the present surrounding
Web services. The best
clue to what is happening
ri... Sep. 27, 2005 01:30 AM Reads: 34,542 Replies: 2 | The Voices of The
Community: MXDJ's
Exclusive Developer
Survey By Jeremy Geelan  For this in-depth report
we reached out to the
community of developers
and designers whose daily
work is real-world design
and programming. In each
case what we sought to do
was, first, establish
which technologies our
respondents used most
frequently (in order of
... Sep. 23, 2005 01:00 AM Reads: 37,381 Replies: 1 | Monaco Yacht Show 2005
Live Coverage - M/Y
Jasmin The Scent of Pure
Excellence By Jeremy Geelan  M/Y JASMIN, with her dark
blue hulk, flared bow,
white superstructure, and
her flawless fully-faired
finish, is such a vessel.
Berthed conveniently at
Atakoy Marina, just 15
minutes drive from
Istanbul's main Ataturk
airport. When I boarded
her, the JASMIN is the
... Sep. 21, 2005 06:45 AM Reads: 32,419 Replies: 1 | Java Developers: 'Just Do
It!' By Jeremy Geelan  September is here and
since the name comes from
the Latin septem, for
'seven' - September
having been until 153 BCE
not the ninth but the
seventh month of the
Roman calendar - I have
no hesitation in saying
that it's an appropriate
month to pluck just seven
items ... Sep. 19, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 18,209 | What's Next For Palm OS?
Is Its Future
Linux-Based, and in
China? By Jeremy Geelan So, will ACCESS kill off
the Palm OS, once it owns
PalmSource? Or will it
keep it going, and maybe
even restart Cobalt,
originally touted by
PalmSource as being
'designed from the ground
up to enable new classes
of smartphones'? And what
of Linux, what's the
story there? Sep. 11, 2005 02:30 PM Reads: 16,250 |
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