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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. |
Jonathan Schwartz New Sun
CEO By Roger Strukhoff No reportorial inquiries
have been able to find
out whether Scott McNealy
is really stepping down
as CEO of Sun
Microsystems. Now a wire
report from PR Newswire
says that he is, indeed,
to be succeeded by
current COO Jonathan
Schwartz. Apr. 24, 2006 05:00 PM Reads: 10,290 Replies: 1 | Sun Incurs Expected Loss;
McNealy Announcement
Tomorrow By Roger Strukhoff Sun Microsystems lost
$217 million in the
recently complted
quarter, or six cents per
share, in line with
expecations. Revenue
rose, primarily due to
the company's recent
StorageTek acquisition.
Meanwhile, speculation
about Chairman and CEO
Scott McNealy will
co... Apr. 24, 2006 04:45 PM Reads: 8,248 Replies: 1 | Weird Steve Jobs Video
Appears on Web By Roger Strukhoff Maybe you've already seen
this. But if not, please
do, and in any case tell
us what you think. Is
this the fearsome
presence that has
terrorized generations of
managers and suppliers?
The guy who won his
rematch with John Scully
then vanquished Michael
Eisner? Or ... Apr. 24, 2006 03:00 PM Reads: 9,891 Replies: 1 | Open AJAX Is Loosed Upon
the World By Roger Strukhoff  IBM's announcement last
month of the Open AJAX
initiative brought to the
fore a few key points.
The two most obvious are
that IBM remains an
800-pound gorilla that
the other primates will
follow through the
business jungle, and that
AJAX has emerged as an
ironical... Apr. 18, 2006 06:00 PM Reads: 13,908 Replies: 2 | WebSphere Editorial
— Welcome to This
New World By Roger Strukhoff  Welcome back to WebSphere
Journal. Good to see you,
good to know that you're
still engaging in web
services, one of the more
dynamic areas within all
of technology today.
Although there are a
number of new acronyms
emerging right now, the
now-old standby SOA
conti... Apr. 17, 2006 10:00 AM Reads: 11,984 Replies: 1 | SYS-CON i-Technology
Podcast: LinuxWorld
Product Excellence Awards
Announced in Boston By Roger Strukhoff SYS-CON Publishing
Director Jeremy Geelan
emceed the annual
LinuxWorld Product
Excellence Awards
ceremony at LinuxWorld
Expo in Boston. Novell
took Best of Show, and
awards were presented in
12 other categories. Apr. 7, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 6,415 Replies: 2 | Are the EU vs. Microsoft
Hearings a Joke? By Roger Strukhoff Microsoft continues to
battle with--and be fined
by--European Union
officials over the basic
issue of antitrust.
Redmond, having long
vanquished U.S.
government efforts to
change its ways, has not
yet been able to do the
same in Europe. And the
latest wrinkle incl... Mar. 31, 2006 09:15 AM Reads: 11,615 Replies: 2 | Does Open Source Create
Jobs? By Roger Strukhoff My purpose today is to
examine the question
about whether the hottest
topics in software
development right
now--Open Source, Ajax,
and Web 2.0--offer any
relief. My attention was
drawn to recent coverage
of three classic Web 2.0
companies, flickr,
myspace, and youtube. Mar. 27, 2006 01:15 PM Reads: 20,588 Replies: 8 | WebSphere Journal
Editorial: "Web 2.0 and
the Future" By Roger Strukhoff  The new year is
proceeding with what
appears to be a
renaissance or perhaps
mini-bubble in the global
IT industry. Use of the
technically imprecise but
no doubt seductive term
'Web 2.0' is stimulating
companies to think
through what they need to
deploy for and thr... Mar. 17, 2006 12:30 PM Reads: 11,770 Replies: 2 | Wireless RIM Takes One
for Team, Sets
Patent-Trolling Precedent By Roger Strukhoff In announcing that RIM
'took one for the team'
in settling with NTP over
long-disputed patents,
did the company in effect
negotiate with business
terrorists? There are a
lot of numbers being
thrown around in this
case, but one clear
question emerges: what
sort of ... Mar. 4, 2006 08:45 PM Reads: 18,366 Replies: 1 | HP CEO Mark Hurd Touts
Integrity Series Linux
Blades By Roger Strukhoff HP CEO Mark Hurd, on the
new job for almost a year
now, touted the company's
Integrity servers during
a recent webcast that
also featured Intel CEO
Paul Otellini and a brief
pre-recorded appearance
by Oracle CEO Larry
Ellison. And Linux was
mentioned as part of the ... Mar. 3, 2006 01:45 PM Reads: 8,181 Replies: 2 | SYS-CON i-Technology
Podcast: Strukhoff
Considers Oracle, Open
Source, RIM, and Gossip By Roger Strukhoff SYS-CON West Coast Bureau
Chief Roger Strukhoff
comments on the renewed
Oracle/JBoss rumors,
considers the upcoming
RIM court decision, and
gossips a bit about
emerging gossip in Silion
Valley. Feb. 10, 2006 03:30 PM Reads: 10,462 Replies: 1 | Tech Commercials a Super
Bowl No-Show By Roger Strukhoff SYS-CON West Coast Bureau
Chief Roger Strukhoff was
on assignment Sunday,
Feb. 5, dutifully
watching Super Bowl XL,
but there was nothing
'Xtra Large' about this
year's group of tech ads.
Tech was, in fact, almost
non-existent. Are they
just being smart, or are
th... Feb. 6, 2006 09:30 AM Reads: 9,089 Replies: 2 | SYS-CON i-Technology
Podcast: Tech Companies
Becoming Consumer
Companies By Roger Strukhoff It's been a wet and wild
January in Silicon
Valley. Major Web 2.0
companies Yahoo and
Google, in particular,
have been in the news
recently, with their
executives now being
covered like major
celebrities. Can
paparazzi be far behind? Feb. 4, 2006 07:45 PM Reads: 14,798 Replies: 6 | Can We Ever Have
Finality? By Roger Strukhoff  I've never fully embraced
the name of this column,
'Final Thoughts.' I get
it, this is the last page
of the magazine, so is
the final word in the
literal sense. But the
column name sounds like a
last will and testament,
or less ominously, as if
this is all the colum... Feb. 1, 2006 02:15 PM Reads: 11,720 Replies: 2 | Oracle's Ellison Causing
His Accountant to Lose
Sleep By Roger Strukhoff Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
was spending too much
money on himself between
2000 and 2002 in the
opinion of his
accountant, according to
court documents that have
been released in
connection with a
challenge to a
shareholder lawsuit
settlement Ellison made
last year... Jan. 31, 2006 12:15 PM Reads: 16,177 Replies: 2 | No Predictions, Just
Content By Roger Strukhoff  As the year closes it's
time for industry
columnists to make their
bold, wrongheaded
predictions for 2006. You
won't find that sort of
nonsense here. There's no
Top 10 or crystal ball or
cute list of Things to
Watch. Jan. 28, 2006 03:45 PM Reads: 12,668 Replies: 1 | The Need for Big Apps By Roger Strukhoff  It will be interesting
over the coming year to
witness the progress of
open source software in
general and open source
in application
development in
particular. IBM, chided
by many members of the
open source community for
taking the proprietary
approach to app
d... Jan. 28, 2006 02:15 PM Reads: 11,988 Replies: 1 | Editorial: How to Keep
Your Job By Roger Strukhoff  So it appears that the
power of the pen is
omnipotent. In this very
space just a couple of
months ago, the writer
was heard complaining
about certain aspects of
a college football team,
and a few short weeks
later the coach of said
team lost his job. Wow. Jan. 28, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 15,285 Replies: 2 | i-Technology Viewpoint:
The Five Dimensions of
Blogs By Roger Strukhoff  The value of blogging
continues to surface as a
navel-gazing exercise
within the technology
community. Does blogging
matter? Does anyone care
whether or not it
matters? Should it
matter? These and other
meta-questions continue
to be posed by those who
a.) aren't g... Jan. 20, 2006 10:45 AM Reads: 29,877 | Silicon Valley Report
Shows Little Programming
Job Growth, Open Source
or No Open Source By Roger Strukhoff A new report from Joint
Venture: Silicon Valley
Network will tout the
region as a new center of
creativity for the global
technology community,
citing the Apple iPod as
a prime example of this
creativity at work. In
his recent blogpost,
SYS-CON's West Coast
Bureau... Jan. 15, 2006 11:15 PM Reads: 9,137 Replies: 1 | More About SOA By Roger Strukhoff  This issue has an
emphasis on SOA, an area
of application
development that has
gotten a life of its own
over the past year.
Service-oriented
architectures are not
only the rage of the age,
but represent an approach
sure to be on the front
burner of enterprise IT
... Jan. 8, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 12,475 Replies: 1 | Will Google Subvert
Microsoft's Dominant
Paradigm? By Roger Strukhoff Speculation about the
announcement of a $200 PC
from Google that won't be
running Windows is
setting technology
industry speculation into
the highest gear it's
seen since, uh, Google's
IPO. One analyst has
emerged from the pack to
make a bubblesque
prediction of G... Jan. 5, 2006 01:30 AM Reads: 15,435 Replies: 4 | Intel Revamping Logo,
Superseding Pentium Name
as Company Prepares for
Consumer Electronics Show
(CES) By Roger Strukhoff Intel is set to revise
its fabulously successful
'Intel Inside' campaign,
change its logo, and drop
the Pentium name in favor
of 'Core' as it prepares
for the huge Consumer
Electronics Show in Las
Vegas in the short term,
and for the 21st century
in the long term. Dec. 30, 2005 11:15 AM Reads: 13,934 Replies: 2 | Strukhoff's rssblog
Predicts: Open Source
Will Find Hot Seat at
Adult's Table By Roger Strukhoff It is time for all of
punditry to clear its
collective throat and
pronounce precisely what
will happen in the
upcoming year. As I child
I, somewhere back in the
20th century, learned to
make fun of astrologist
Jean Dixon's puerile
prognostications, even as
they do... Dec. 29, 2005 11:00 PM Reads: 12,578 Replies: 1 | My Predictions For 2006 By Roger Strukhoff  Silicon Valley will once
again be lauded for its
traditional
strengths--good
educational base, plenty
of funding, and a
warm-weather location set
in a highly competitive
society with a relatively
low level of government
interference,
theoretically
non-existent c... Dec. 29, 2005 06:45 PM Reads: 8,477 Replies: 1 | WebSphere Journal: Is IBM
Standing Still? By Roger Strukhoff  Random encounters can
provide unexpected
illumination. If you are
the type of person who
just starts talking to
strangers anywhere
anytime, as I am, the
conversations that ensue
can relate to your work a
suprisingly high
percentage of the time. Dec. 20, 2005 01:30 PM Reads: 12,414 Replies: 3 | The Five Dimensions of
Web Logs By Roger Strukhoff The value of blogging
continues to surface as a
naval-gazing exercise
within the technology
community. Does blogging
matter? Does anyone care
whether or not it
matters? Should it
matter? These and other
meta-questions continue
to be posed by those who
a.) aren't g... Dec. 13, 2005 11:15 AM Reads: 8,805 Replies: 2 | Groups Tell ICANN That It
Can't in Internet Domain
Name Furor By Roger Strukhoff A pair of lawsuits has
been filed and domain
registrars are lined up
about the block in
opposing a recently
proposed extension of
ICANN control over domain
name extensions. The
battle seems destined to
last awhile. Dec. 7, 2005 08:15 AM Reads: 14,480 Replies: 3 | Sun Niagara Falls To $3K
Price Point, Integrates
CoolThreads Technology By Roger Strukhoff In the wake of its
recent, aggressive
open-source software
strategy announcement,
Sun choose its Network
Computing event in New
York as the scene of
releasing a pair of
'Niagara' servers, the
SunFire T1000 and T2000,
offering the company's
'CoolThreads'
multi-th... Dec. 6, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 14,881 Replies: 2 | ICANN Faces Multiple
Challenges By Roger Strukhoff The ICANN meeting in
Vancouver seems to be as
lively as such an event
can be, with porn in the
picture during the most
recent proceedings, as
well as a continued
challenge to its proposal
to extend a .com monopoly
to VeriSign. Dec. 4, 2005 06:15 PM Reads: 9,019 Replies: 2 | WebSphere Journal
Editorial: The IP Battles
Continue By Roger Strukhoff  The battles over
intellectual property
continue. Google is the
company-of-the-day in the
headlines, with its plan
to make available
excerpts and whole text
from several university
libraries under legal
attack from the New
York-based Author's
Guild, which represents
8,000 authors. Nov. 29, 2005 06:00 PM Reads: 10,817 Replies: 1 | RSS Blog: Chaordic
Concordance By Roger Strukhoff But 'chaordic?' As
Nietzsche wrote, 'out of
chaos, comes order.' Or
as Mel Brooks wrote,
commenting on a character
of his pretentiously
quoting Nietszche, 'Oh,
blow it out your a--,
Howard!' My sentiments
exactly. Chaordic indeed. Nov. 26, 2005 09:45 PM Reads: 16,970 Replies: 1 | Interview: IBM's Adam
Jollans Outlines Linux
Strategy By Roger Strukhoff  Adam Jollans is IBM
Software Group's senior
Linux strategist. He
leads its worldwide Linux
marketing strategy. In
this role he is
responsible for defining
Linux marketing
activities at the
software category level
and integrating them with
both IBM's corporate
Li... Nov. 19, 2005 05:00 PM Reads: 15,743 | Cisco Defies "Plumber"
Image, Buys
Scientific-Atlanta By Roger Strukhoff One characteristic of the
boom years of the late
90s was the serial
acquisition of companies
by Cisco. That stopped
when the bubble burst, as
the company lost hundreds
of billions of market cap
and shed thousands of
employees. But Cisco has
been active recently, and... Nov. 18, 2005 04:30 PM Reads: 8,492 Replies: 1 | WebSphere vs WebLogic:
IBM and BEA Spar Over
SPEC Results By Roger Strukhoff IBM reported a 64% margin
of victory over the
competition on a new
benchmark developed by
Standard Performance
Evaluation Corp., or
SPEC. But when apprised
of this claim, BEA
executives said 'whoa,
just a minute, podner!'
So what do these results
really mean? Nov. 12, 2005 11:45 PM Reads: 29,581 Replies: 2 | CA and Investors Spin
Ingres Database Into New
Open Source Company By Roger Strukhoff The most venerable of
databases, Ingres, will
see new life as a
privately funded,
open-source company
according to a new
arrangement between
Computer Associates and a
long-time technology
investor. Nov. 10, 2005 10:00 PM Reads: 8,733 Replies: 1 | Open Source Mozilla
Firefox Observes
Birthday, Faces
Challenges By Roger Strukhoff The open-source Firefox
browser has now been
available for a year, and
has been downloaded more
than 100 million times,
according to its
developer Mozilla. It has
as much as 10 percent of
the market, and has
emerged as a prime
example of open-source
success. Now what? Nov. 10, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 18,893 | i-Technology Viewpoint:
Should RIM BlackBerries
Be Rented? By Roger Strukhoff 'So I was sitting under
the hot lights at SYS-CON
Media's headquarters in
Montvale, NJ recently,
trying to mind my own
business but expecting to
get hit with some sort of
surprise question by my
SYS-CON.TV colleague
Jeremy Geelan...' Nov. 6, 2005 08:45 AM Reads: 62,171 Replies: 1 | IBM WebSphere Journal
Editorial: Big Blue
Rejuvenated By Roger Strukhoff  IBM announced an expanded
SOA strategy in September
building on the recent
momentum it has gained
over its archrival in
this space, BEA, as well
as Microsoft's .NET
strategy. Nov. 2, 2005 08:45 AM Reads: 11,222 Replies: 1 |
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