Blogging Roller Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and software development https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/feed/entries/atom 2026-05-18T08:23:39+00:00 Apache Roller https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/reminder_covalent_s_roller_webinar Reminder: Covalent&#39;s Roller webinar is tomorrow Dave Johnson 2007-06-19T17:25:27+00:00 2008-01-04T19:45:58+00:00 Roller fans don&#39;t forget, Covalent&#39;s Introduction to Apache Roller webinar is tomorrow, Wednesday June 20 at 2PM ET. Raible has the <a href="http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/webinar_on_wednesday_introduction_to">details</a>. <br> https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/redmonk_on_roller_covalent_and Redmonk on Roller, Covalent and IBM Dave Johnson 2007-02-14T09:29:01+00:00 2007-02-14T17:32:37+00:00 <blockquote><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/02/13/new-customer-win-covalent/">James Governor</a>: Covalent gets its mojo back and refocuses on its core competence - supporting open source code, and doubles down on Apache projects, going back to its roots. The latest example of Covalent seeing an opportunity and nailing it is the company’s announcement of <a href="http://blog.covalent.net/roller/covalent/date/20070122">support for the Roller blog platform</a>. That’s now two companies, IBM and Covalent, making direct revenues from a platform originally built by a Sun employee, but for which Sun has no business model.&nbsp;Here is a hint Sun - perhaps its not software you need to sell but service and support. That is what Covalent is nailing.</blockquote><p>I appreciate the support from James and the Redmonk crew. They always seem to be rootin&#39; for Roller. </p><p>Of course I&#39;d like to see better support for Roller all around, but at this point I can&#39;t say much beyond this: I&#39;m focused on building a great blog platform and support is a very important part of any platform.</p><p>A couple of small corrections for James. I was not a Sun employee when I originally developed Roller. Second, IBM hasn&#39;t shipped Connections, so they&#39;re not any making &quot;direct revenues&quot; yet. Third, I don&#39;t know if Covalent has &quot;nailed&quot; anything -- I haven&#39;t heard from anybody who has tried the service and I&#39;m still trying to figure out exactly what they offer.</p>