I am heading down to the KMWorld show in San Jose, CA tomorrow (Tuesday). From the KMWorldconference page:
The KMWorld & Intranets Conference and Exhibition offers a wide-ranging program especially focused to meet the needs of executives and strategic business and technology decision makers. This is a must-attend for those concerned with improving their organization's bottom line, business processes and productivity, as well as streamlining operations and accelerating development and innovation in their evolving enterprises.
I'm meeting a few folks at the conference, but would enjoy meeting you if you are planning to attend.
An encouraging article about wikis popularity in the enterprise. In fact, a quote from a Gartner analyst stated:
Gartner analyst Kathy Harris predicted that by 2009, 50 percent of U.S. companies will be using wikis.
While Confluence wasn't directly highlighted, many of the companies listed in the article are already Atlassian customers.
You can read the entire article here.
John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco Systems, made that comment during his speech at the Oracle OpenWorld happening here in San Francisco. The article the quote was taken from was in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Another interesting quote (or set of quotes) was from Mark Hurd, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard:
"You've got this explosion of data," he said. "The job isn't going to get easier. It's actually going to get tougher. You have an aging infrastructure. It is aging at a rapid rate. Less and less money is being spent on those applications and infrastructures."
The article then goes on to discuss the partnership between Intel, Oracle and HP to better utilise mainframes over server-based networks.
Mainframes? Should be interesting to see how this coincides with the move to a "Web 2.0" infrastructure.
You can read the full article here:
SFGATE - More alliances for tech companies
We first talked about the Universal Wiki Converter (UWC) in a July blog post:
The Universal Wiki Converter (UWC) is both a GUI tool to assist customers with converting their wikis and a well documented,
extensible framework for creating new wiki-to-Confluence converters. We typically receives at least one inquiry a week about
converting another wiki to Confluence. Looking at the common activities associated with these conversions we've created a process
and framework to support those activities.
We've updated the UWC to include a fourth, very popular conversion tool: MediaWiki. Jonathan talks more about the updated UWC on the Developer's Blog.
Go check it out.
We're less than two full months from JavaPolis 2006, a conference in Antwerp, Belgium addressing topics such as AJAX, SOA, and of course Java. Our very own Mike Cannon-Brookes will be speaking at the event, and we'll have a few other folks from Atlassian there as well.
I'll continue posting information about our role at and around the event. If there's anything you'd like to bring up, please let us know.
A quick blurb from the JavaPolis wiki:
JavaPolis 2006 takes place between December 11th and 15th in Antwerp (Belgium) at the venue MetroPolis. During the first 2 days you can attend in-depth University sessions and follow technical hands-on labs . Followed by the JavaPolis Conference (3 days) with 60 minute technical talks covering topics on Web, standard and enterprise Java, Security, SOA, Methodology, case-studies, mobile and hot beans!
Next to the conference we'll have 15 minute Quickies, informal BOFs and a new concept named Whiteboards. Whiteboards are one hour sessions where people can reserve a whiteboard and present, brainstorm, model with other interested developers.
I added Stephen Danelutt's blog to our Partner wiki home page this morning. I've been following it regularly and find it timely and informative from a social networking/application perspective- I thought you'd enjoy following it as well.
Stephen's firm, netoCiety, is an Atlassian Partner, is based in the United Kingdom and is doing some really great work with Confluence. You can find Stephen's blog below in our link roll.