Sun EAI, where Where is, JavaOne roundups, and more...

Sun's software track record is lousy, asserts Curt Monash, writing about the SeeBeyond purchase, predicting it will be "Neither a major success nor a major failure." Poor puns about seeing beyond hardware aside, Vishal Sharma calls it "interesting," saying it helps Sun to move into EAI, to take on IBM. IBM UK blogger Richard Brown hopes that this means that EAI will get exciting again and wonders if SeeBeyond will disappear without a trace. David Linthicum chimes in:

SeeBeyond has been in the integration business from the beginning with their Datagate product, and had done a reasonable job with their product since then, including opening up the mother of all channels with their deal with Accenture ...Sun's acquisition of SeeBeyond is logical ... Now, they have a complete integration stack... [ read more]

It's Where. Where? In San Francisco, since you asked (37° 47.27' N, 122° 24.49' W specifically). "Where" is O'Reilly's conference about location-aware technologies. And my, wasn't there a rush for folks to announce their shiny new toys? No longer will we have to use unofficial sources such as Joel Webber's "Deconstruction" article. We now have official APIs from Google, and Yahoo!. There's also a new mapping site from Amazon's A9, which Dennis Cheung calls "Pretty neat" (while managing to piss off people living in Boston, India, and Japan: quite a feat). Wade Roush sums it up:

The conference's main theme is that the old business of GIS is about to be disrupted big-time by the arrival of Web-based technologies that put the power to access, explore, create, and enhance, digital maps into the hands of average people. That's going to change the way people think about place and space; it's also going to create new opportunies [sic] to serve people branded information (and, not incidentally, advertising). [read more]

It's also JavaOne, and Scott wants open source text books: "A worthy cause, but..." says David Rothman. Shoujo-lover Alice Lee publicly denounces her geekgrrrl friend, Amber, for attending. Many Sun bloggers writing, including Naoki Ishihara, who blogs about JavaOne street performers, Ed Burns, and British ex-pat Rich Sharples, who snaps one of the more ... errr ... protective booth giveaways.

Buffer overflow:

• Motorola buys Sendo assets
• UK putting as much spectrum as possible into the open market
• Sun steps back from Linux JDS
• Why Intel should study the Microsoft playbook
• How not to outsource IT
• Nuclear power: yes please!
• Security awareness tips
• Microsoft border security

And finally... Don't try this at home, kids (and they spelled "Aluminium" wrong ;-).

Richi Jennings is an independent technology and marketing consultant, specializing in email, blogging, Linux, and computer security. A 20 year, cross-functional IT veteran, he is also an analyst at Ferris Research. Contact Richi at blogwatch@richi.co.uk.