5 posts and columns on Macromedia

A Cloud Application That Saves Lives

in Enterprise on April 5, 2011 at 5:06 pm PT

Matching people who need kidney transplants with compatible donors is a profoundly complex problem. A software company veteran who once needed a kidney himself has found a way to help hospitals speed up the search for donors.

Meet Nokia's New CEO: Elop's BoomTown Video (Plus His Vision Quest)!

in News on September 10, 2010 at 9:21 am PT

Just as the chickens always come home to roost, BoomTown always has a video ferreted away of someone who makes it to the bigs. In this case, here is a video interview I did in April of 2009 with new Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, just a year after he had taken over as president of Microsoft’s Business Division.
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Adobe Co-Founder: We Never Abandoned Apple, but Apple Is Abandoning Us

in Mobile on May 14, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

A couple of weeks ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs published “Thoughts on Flash,” a 1,671-word execration of Adobe’s Flash platform. On Thursday, Adobe co-founders and co-chairmen Chuck Geschke and John Warnock followed suit with some thoughts of their own. Their eight-paragraph essay, “Our Thoughts On Open Markets,” mentions Apple only once, but when it does it is to lambaste the company for its position on Flash. I spoke to Geschke Thursday afternoon about his letter, Adobe’s new “We ? Apple” ad campaign and Apple’s stance on his company’s software. After the jump, a transcript of our conversation.

BoomTown's 1998 Rob Glaser Profile: A Web Pioneer Does a Delicate Dance With Microsoft

in News on January 14, 2010 at 11:48 am PT

BoomTown did an interview last night with outgoing RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser after the announcement yesterday of his departure from the company he founded and led for 16 years. That will be posted later today, but here is a profile I wrote about Glaser when I was covering the Internet for The Wall Street Journal. It’s from Feb. 12, 1998, and focuses on Glaser’s decidedly complicated relationship with his former employer, Microsoft.
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Microsoft's Stephen Elop Speaks!

in News on April 3, 2009 at 1:40 am PT

In BoomTown’s ongoing series, “Microsofties on Parade,” I spent some time earlier this week with Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft’s Business division. Reporting directly to CEO Steve Ballmer, Elop is a newbie, having gotten to Microsoft only a year ago. Which is why he is enthusiastic in his determination to tell the world that the software giant has gotten the open religion and is becoming “the most interoperable company in the world.” Yes, he really said that.
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