The Gillmor Gang

Special guests: Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings (CNet), and Dan Farber, Editor, ZDNet/CNet. The program was recorded at Supernova 2004.

Are the venture investors back? Are they putting money into open-source software? What about Java--is it still an important platform? Should Sun make it open source?

With special guest Mitchell Kertzman, Partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, the Gillmor Gang tackles these questions as well as DRM, and of course RSS.

Guest: Michael Vizard, editor-in-chief, CRN Magazine

CA's CEO resigns. Sun announces open-source Solaris. As the PC becomes more powerful, will desktops become servers? Is the middleware market as we've know it dying due to open source (JBoss)? Does IBM just talk the open-source talk? How are vendors creating their open-source strategies?Are applications and services the only remaining battlegrounds? Trends follow the talent, so where is the talent going? Globalization? The Gillmor Gang plays Vendor Sports: Who will win? Who will become the JetBlue of IT services?

Web services, SOAs, commodity IT and open source. Which vendors will survive and how will they do it? Why are they pushing suites when web services were all about best-of-breed components? This week's special guest is Dan Farber, ZDNet Editor.

Guest: Mary Jo Foley, author of Ziff Davis' Microsoft-Watch.com

Guest: Michael Vizard, editor-in-chief, CRN Magazine