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Rachel Chalmers

Senior Analyst, Enterprise Software, The 451 Group

Rachel covers Web services and software platforms for The 451 Group, and has pioneered specialist technology coverage in such areas as the evolution of Java, 3D modeling and graphics, the emergence of Web application servers, Linux and open source software, embedded operating systems and databases, Web services standards and distributed application management.

For more information see Rachel Chalmers's bio.

Recent posts by Rachel Chalmers:

  • August 21, 2007: Have your say on virtualization management
    In the wake of the VMware IPO and Citrix-XenSource acquisition, it's pretty clear that virtualization management will become the hot ...
  • March 26, 2007: Death threats for Kathy Sierra
    In January Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users gave a keynote speech that was the talk of Linux Conf Au. ...
  • August 30, 2006: Virtualization user survey
    Hi, readers! Remember me? I've been working on a forthcoming major report on virtualization, looking especially at the next two ...
  • June 22, 2006: Geographic equalizer
    Raven's right about the worldwide impact of open source. This week I sat down with Peter Harrison of Induslogic and ...
  • May 17, 2006: AJAX and Java frameworks
    Not quite open source, but open-source-adjacent: I am taking over The 451 Group's Rich Internet Application (RIA) coverage from my ...
  • May 17, 2006: Catching up with CollabNet
    CollabNet VP of marketing Martin Doettling dropped by our office on Monday afternoon to correct my erroneous impression that CollabNet's ...
  • April 25, 2006: MySQL user conference
    O'Reilly & Associates is having a crazy busy week. The company's Make magazine took over San Mateo County Fairgrounds all ...
  • April 24, 2006: McNealy out, Schwartz in
    At first blush this looks like good news for open source Sun. Schwartz's blog has spent the last couple of ...
  • April 17, 2006: solidDB for MySQL
    I like the new product Solid Information Technology announced today - a combination of Solid transactional software with MySQL Server. ...
  • April 4, 2006: Web 2.0 for the enterprise
    Dutch software house TIOBE (named for The Importance of Being Earnest, endearingly enough) calculates the relative popularity of various programming ...
  • April 4, 2006: No money in tools?
    I had a lot of fun at EclipseCon 2006 talking to small, profitable companies with no VC. The Eclipse ecosystem ...

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