Hopefully one or more open source businesses will be among the standout successes of early 21st century capitalism. However, it's interesting to look back at one of the standout successes of late 20th century capitalism for an instructive example of one of the unusual challenges facing open source businesses.
Wal-Mart's history is well known. The first […]

Between Rod's recent blog on the origins of the Interface name, a recent thread querying the renaming of Acegi Security, and a suggestion late last year from my colleague Ben Hale to blog about the origins of the "Acegi" name, I've decided that it's probably time to do so!
First of all, the pronunciation: it's "ah-see-gee". […]

A few weeks ago I blogged about the origins of the name Spring. We also get many questions about the origins of the name Interface21.
For anyone who's read my books or considered the design of Spring, the interface part is hardly a surprise. It plays on both the OO concept of an interface (for which […]

I was in San Francisco for Oracle World. I even spoke briefly in Thomas Kurian's keynote on Java middleware. But Neelan and I had to leave on Tuesday and missed the Big Deal: Larry Ellison announcing that Oracle are offering support for Linux.
This is an interesting event from the perspective of the open source […]

Welcome to my new blog! I haven't blogged since August 2004, but have been inspired by our new team blog to try to lift my game. I've also been shamed by the blog-energy of my colleagues.
I'm very excited about a lot of topics at the moment, and promise to blog much more often than once […]

Spring - here to stay for a long time
I visit many clients and speak to even more on a day-to-day basis. This includes existing Interface21 clients as well as companies that are interested in our products and services across Europe. I have noticed a recurring theme in the conversations I am having: Spring […]

Hello all,
This is just a quick entry to let you know I have officially relocated my biz.blog to here, our new Interface21 team blog.  I'm excited about this group blog serving as the voice of Interface21.  For those of you who know me, you know to expect a different perspective.
I have got some saved drafts […]

As Interface21 grows as a global company one thing has become more and more clear to me everyday:
we really have some damn talented, highly motivated leaders who have a lot to say on both business and technology.
Having said that, one of the things we want to do is give our people a convenient, easily accessible […]

I just got finished with my Spring 2.0: New and Noteworthy talk at Atlanta DevCon 2006. Let me be the first to say that the conference was great. The site and organizers were all top notch. I'd like to give a special shout-out to Burr Sutter for putting on one heck of […]