Commercial OpenSource: SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson (Part 1)

Rod Johnson is an accomplished author (‘Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development’ and ‘J2EE without EJB’), a world authority on Java and J2EE, and an entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of SpringSource, which builds Java infrastructure software. Rod holds a BA with Honors in Computer Science, Mathematics and Musicology as well as a

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The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 7)

SM: If I were planning a trip to Ireland, where would Cuil take me? TC: I would hope we would take you to the more interesting places and to the path less traveled. My parents run a bed and breakfast north of Dublin. Everyone lands at Dublin and goes south.

New Facebook Group

Readers, we have a new Facebook group to continue incomplete discussions following all the different events we’re now participating in. Please feel free to start discussions on various topics related to entrepreneurship, and hopefully, we can help one another out.

The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 6)

SM: That is your hypothesis, which is fine. I think there are vertical search cases which have broken out of the pack and been very successful. TC: I do think vertical search works. There is no question that in places people can manage to get themselves established as an idea.

Hachette India To Publish EJ1

By Maureen Kelly I’m pleased to announce that Hachette India will be publishing Sramana’s book, “Entrepreneur Journeys”, in February. Soon after the book was published in October with Amazon’s BookSurge division, the online buzz and word of mouth about Sramana and her book caught the attention of editors at Hachette. Her controversial Forbes article, How

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The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 5)

SM: Is there really a high degree of mistrust in Europe? TC: In Ireland you do not give your credit card to a waiter at restaurant. The waiter will bring the machine to your table where you swipe it yourself and enter your PIN. There is a high degree of mistrust.

The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 4)

SM: Based on the way you are approaching the problem, it seems much easier to do relevance in a constrained domain than in an unconstrained domain. TC: Absolutely. Relevance is the idea of constraining things.

The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 3)

SM: How successful is your architecture when it comes to indexing? TC: We now index a lot more pages than other people. Microsoft and Yahoo! have fallen behind in terms of indexing and keeping up with Google. Google will get better with more competition.