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		Philip Brittan pbrittan@droplets.com Philip Brittan has been writing software and running software companies for 15 years. He grew up on a ranch in Montana and has a degree in Computer Science from Harvard University. He was lead developer, then VP Product Development, and finally CEO of financial software firm Astrogamma. Philip then founded and ran software development firm Spheresoft, and then founded Droplets, Inc., of which he is currently Chairman. In addition to starting companies and writing Java code, Philip enjoys skiing, hiking, mountain biking, composing music, and playing with his kids. Weblogs The Rich Client Strikes Back Microsoft is redefining the application interface around rich clients, and if Java does not have an answer, it faces being cut off from end users. The answer lies in matching Microsoft's... Security Strategies The IT security outlook just seems to be getting worse. Maybe it's time to change the rules. Fighting With Everyone Microsoft's campaign to take over the world is bringing it into conflict with a few people. The Battle Over Java Is the cold war between Sun and IBM over Java heating up? Microsoft retrenches around fat clients Microsoft is leading a charge back to the desktop. Will the world follow? Confusion between grid and utility computing I just published an article on CNet News.com titled The new IT confusion which attempt to disentangle grid and utility... Open Standards Definitions What do we mean by open standards anyhow? My last entry evoked a certain amount of name-calling in the arena of open standards.... Sun: Threatened by Standards? Can 'standards' and 'standardization' be two unrelated concepts? There was an article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal,... RAD Tool Let-down Rapid application development tools let you put together a great-looking mock-up of your app in no time, but often are of little use for the production version of your system. Visual GUI... ROI of UI Technology I recently wrote a paper for The SAP Developer Network on user interface technology in the enterprise. I'd like to pull out one small section of that paper... Embrace, Extend, Extinguish on the browser? Is Microsoft ready to move onto the 'extinguish' phase with the Web browser? Open Standards: Apps and Infrastructure One valuable capability of open standards is to let customers decouple application decisions from infrastructure choices. Avalon: A new UI for Windows Avalon gives Microsoft an opportunity to demonstrate its leverage over the user experience and to shake up competitors. Microsoft and Web Services Web Services are a way for Microsoft to leverage the existing base of J2EE without having to do anything to support Java explicitly. Building software that matters Industry gurus claiming that technology no longer matters to Corporate America may be drawing the wrong conclusion from the wrong evidence. Just wanted to let everyone know that I... Pre-Integrated Airplanes If the IT industry wants to be more like other, mature manufacturing industries, then large vendors need to be willing and able to integrate and resell software components as easily as they do... .NET on Linux, part 2 - "It's the API, stupid" Speculation on a strategy for Microsoft to co-opt Linux Pardon the title. I'm not actually calling anyone stupid. Just couldn't resist co-opting President Clinton's '92 campaign... "I wonder when the Java developers will be as happy as the Mickeys" What do you think about when you write Java? .NET on Linux Could Microsoft co-opt Linux? Java vs. .NET, part 5 - Rich thin clients Let Java play to its strengths and co-opt Microsoft’s advantages In the previous parts of this series on Java vs. Microsoft .NET, I lay out the threat that .NET poses to the... Java vs. .NET, part 4 - Java is a language, .NET is not Java takes a language-specific approach to solving problems, .NET takes a platform-specific one The Internet Has Been Good to Microsoft Office Standards, and corresponding monopolies, can occur naturally Believe it or not, there are times when I feel some empathy for Microsoft. After all, I myself was once a small-time... Java vs. .NET, part 3 - Open Standards Java’s traditional weapon of choice Blackout Single points of failure can be entire systems. Prevention may lie in "fencing in". XP, User Champions, and Software Vendors Software vendors are in a better position than enterprises to have the full-time user champions that Extreme Programming requires ASP.NET and Smart Clients Microsoft makes money from Windows desktops, not from browsers In response to the the latest installment of my Java vs. .Net series... Paradigm Shifts Two articles recently got me thinking about the fact that paradigm shifts can be born out of convenience or necessity. Java vs. .NET, part 2 - The Nature of the Beast What is Microsoft trying to do? Docs >> Forms >> Apps There is a natural evolution of platform technologies from document publishing to forms processing to application delivery. The Web is the leading example of this, but Adobe Acrobat PDF and... Software Usability Case Study: Novices and Power Users Yes, you can support both 1 2 next › last »