Inspirational Technology

On Wednesday at 12PM I’ll be giving a talk at Gangplank about product development in startups and what I feel are the ten milestones you’ll encounter that will help guide your way. If you’re in the Phoenix area and are developing a product or thinking about developing one in a startup environment I’m hoping it turns out to be a really good discussion. I don’t generally talk much in public so this is a rare occasion to hear me ramble.

Gangplank is located at 290 E. El Prado, Chandler, AZ, it’s on the second floor. Here’s a map.

Last week we announced that Six Apart and JumpBox have been working together to vastly simplify the deployment of Movable Type Pro. This new product called “Virtual Movable Type by JumpBox” is a JumpBox virtual appliance that bundles all the components required to run Movable Type together in a single module that deploys in minutes. For Movable Type this represents a vast simplification of their present install process and is a great confirmation of what we’ve been working on at JumpBox.

“The virtual appliance makes it radically easier to get started and allows anyone to quickly experience the flexibility, scalability and power of Movable Type,” said Ed Anuff, EVP and GM of the Movable Type Division at Six Apart. “You can get up and running immediately, while reducing the cost of configuration and maintenance. And it’s a snap for anyone who wants to evaluate the platform to get started, whether that’s on a desktop running VMWare or Parallels, a large-scale deployment on Amazon’s EC2 or anything in between.”

Distributing software in this way is a huge step forward for ISVs like Six Apart, it allows them to put their software into less technical people’s hands and to give them a good experience while doing it. That’s what JumpBox is all about.

Just wondering if anyone is heading to VMWorld in Las Vegas next week and would like to meet? I’ll be at VMWorld Tues-Thurs and would love to hear some experiences with JumpBox, virtual appliances and virtualization or cloud computing in general.

Kimbro