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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.

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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: 12,546  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: 9,802  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: 15,676
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: 18,468
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: 11,052  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: 14,563  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: 12,827  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: 22,698
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: 15,809
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: 18,328  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: 15,899
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: 125,940  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: 23,441  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: 17,388  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: 22,186
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: 17,906
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: 16,356  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: 21,247
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: 19,531
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: 30,043  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: 16,047
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: 14,418
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: 17,533
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: 20,367  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: 17,480
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: 17,653  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: 18,029  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: 18,141  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: 22,517
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: 27,068  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: 23,170  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: 15,752
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: 16,285  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: 17,266  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: 19,536  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: 20,763  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: 20,268  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: 23,812  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: 17,831  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: 23,190  Replies: 3

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