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Spinning off with style (pictorial report)

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

ZeroTurnaround is a spin-off of Webmedia (fastest growing software development company in the Baltic States since 2000). Before JRebel (our flagship product) we worked in the R&D team of Webmedia. Then came JRebel, JSPWeaver, ZeroTurnaround and now we’ve spinned off and are at a new office.
A spin-off is a new organization or entity formed by [...]



A PHB + a startup + dilbert = SALES are up!

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Looking at the numbers I can say that it is working but wearing the extra nose is not as easy as it seems.



Microsoft acquires ZeroTurnaround for undisclosed amount

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

ZeroTurnaround Ltd., a developer of Java development productivity tools, announced today that it has been acquired by Microsoft Corp. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. ZeroTurnaround will stop any further developments of JavaRebel and JSPWeaver and will buy back all the licenses sold so far.
“The deal fits with Microsoft’s strategy of migrating Java developers to the .NET [...]



Random observations from Devoxx 2008

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Pictorial report from Devoxx 2008. Does Bruce Willis work for IBM? Which app server is evil? How popular has Spring App Platform become?



Script kiddies have awesome tools

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

About 10 years ago a friend of mine showed me an exploit. It was written in C and it tried to spawn a shell at a remote host. It seemed pretty cool. I did not understand the code but the mere idea that almost anybody equipped with a script like that could deface a webpage [...]