Exclusive Q&As

Exclusive Q&A with Vik Chaudhary, Keynote Systems VP

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:00:00 EDT

"The real-time aspects of performance monitoring and testing become more important as cloud applications evolve into mission-critical applications," notes Vik Chaudhary, VP of Product Management and Corporate Development for Keynote Systems, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan, Conference Chair of SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo being held in just two weeks' time in New York City (March 30-April 1, 2009).

Appcelerator Building Out the RIA Open Source Community

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:15:00 EDT

'We're dedicated to building the largest open-source community dedicated to RIAs, breaking down the barriers between traditional preferred languages, programming models and solutions,' says the co-founder & CEO of Appcelerator, Jeff Haynie, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan. To date Appcelerator has seen the strongest amount of interest from Java and PHP developers, Haynie notes, but he says the company has continued to see steady growth across Ruby, Python, Perl and .NET programmers as well.

Bringing Excellence to the Field of UI Engineering

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:00:00 EDT

"My mission has always been to bring excellence to the field of user interface engineering," says Bill Scott, Director of User Interface Engineering at Netflix, in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's AJAX & RIA Journal in the run-up to his session on October 20 at AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo in San Jose, California (October 20-22, 2008).

Exclusive Q&A with Coach Wei - Chairman, Founder & CTO of Nexaweb

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:00:00 EDT

'Ten years ago,' Coach Wei tells Jeremy Geelan in this exclusive interview with AJAXWorld Magazine, 'I was as a poor graduate student naive enough to start a company at the bottom of the 'dot-bomb' burst. I learned so much coping with the 'nuclear winter,' raising $18M in financing, working through all the challenges associated with the market, dealing with investors and everything else. I only wish that I had known all this before I got started.'

Web 2.0 Is Fundamentally About Empowering People

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:00:00 EDT

'Unlocking content to be remixed into new business value' is the driver of Web 2.0 in the enterprise, says Rod Smith, IBM VP of Emerging Internet Technologies, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan on the occasion of IBM's release of a new technology created by IBM researchers, codenamed 'SMash' - short for Secure Mashup.

"Hard Work Pays Off" – Exclusive Q&A with Alan Meckler, Chairman and CEO, Jupitermedia Corporation

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

In the seven brief years since selling Mecklermedia, the Chairman and CEO of Jupitermedia - Alan Meckler - appears to have packed in what most business leaders would happily have accepted as their lifetime's achievement. SYS-CON Media group publisher and editorial director Jeremy Geelan caught up with him to celebrate the new technology year, and here's what he had to say...