Business World India Interview on EJI

Here’s Business World (India)’s Sanjitha Rao Chaini’s interview with me on EJ1.

Infrastructure Investment: Some Concrete Numbers

Sam Palmisano’s article in the WSJ says:

“Smarter infrastructure is by far our best path to creating new jobs and stimulating growth. We at IBM were asked to map this out by President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, and our research shows that a $30 billion stimulus investment in just three areas — smart grids, health-care IT and broadband — could yield almost one million new jobs within one year. That’s possible because these kinds of infrastructure have significantly greater economic and societal multiplier effects than traditional infrastructure like bridges and highways.” >>>

Forbes Column 2009: Success Tips For New Entrepreneurs

Here’s my new Forbes column, Success Tips For New Entrepreneurs, based on the Entrepreneurship Forum this week, where all 130 attendees were either first-time entrepreneurs, or tire-kicking, aspiring entrepreneurs. It was an interesting snapshot of people in the midst of a deep recession, thinking about new horizons. Read on!

Commercial OpenSource: SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson (Part 2)

SM: What kind of work did you do in your early IT career?

RJ: I started off as a regular developer and rapidly moved into senior architect roles. I worked for a variety of companies in the London area, including the Pearson Group, who own the Financial Times. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: EnergyWare

I last discussed ecological data centers in my interview with Rackable Systems CEO Mark Barrenchea, who is changing the physical structure of servers and data centers in order to cut energy use. Today’s Deal Radar highlights a different aspect of green computing, processor optimization, with a discussion of Blacksburg, Virginia-based EnergyWare. This early stage pre-revenue company makes a software package that maximizes processor performance while reducing energy use. >>>

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 PhD from the University of Sydney.

SM: I detect an accent. Where is that from?

RJ: I come from Sydney, Australia. My accent has been confused because I also lived in London for seven years. I have lived in the Bay Area for a bit over a year now. >>>

Today’s Entrepreneurship Webinar

Today’s webinar was very well attended (probably the largest Dimdim webinar they’ve ever had, according to Steve Chazin, CMO) – well over 130 people from 220+ registered.

For those of you who missed the webinar, here is the recording: >>>

Deal Radar 2009: DecisionView

DecisionView is a leading provider of web-based software solutions for the life sciences industry. These solutions help companies improve their clinical trial performance by making informed decisions through predictive analytics and scenario simulation and modeling. >>>