'Unlocking content to be remixed into new business value' is the driver of Web 2.0 in the enterprise, says Rod Smith, IBM VP of Emerging Internet Technologies, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan on the occasion of IBM's release of a new technology created by IBM researchers, codenamed 'SMash' - short for Secure Mashup.

WLDJ was a media sponsor at the recent BEA eWorld 2004 conference and expo in San Francisco, and SYS-CON Radio was there to get the latest on WebLogic directly from the industry's most influential IT professionals and executives.

JDJ:For the benefit of our readers, could you briefly describe your role in BEA? Dietzen: I'm the chief technology officer for the BEA e-commerce server division. As CTO I look after the technical strategy for BEA's application server products, including the WebLogic Server, WebLogic Enterprise, and Tuxedo. So I get to spend a lot of time on newer technology initiatives, such as Web Services, wireless, and J2EE-based integration. Also, I represent BEA on the Java Executive Council, which helps shape the future of Java via the Java Community Process. Finally, I drive relationships with BEA's high-level partners, OEMs, and blue-chip customers.

The editors of WebLogic Developer's Journal recently sat down with Olivier Helleboid, BEA's President of Products, to talk about WebLogic's direction in 2003.

We recently had a chance to talk to just some of the team behind BEA's dev2dev portal and program. Diana Reid is senior director of Developer Marketing. Before joining BEA, she spent six years at Microsoft in a variety of developer-focused roles. Mary Haggard is senior director of dev2dev Online. Mary came to BEA from the Westside acquisition in late 2001 and was also at Microsoft for several years. Jill Steinberg is editor in Chief of dev2dev Online. She was previously editor-in-chief of JavaWorld. As a whole, the entire development team has an average of five to seven years of developer-related experience across the industry.

Adam Bosworth, vice president of engineering of the Frameworks Division at BEA, recently sat down with JP Morgenthal to talk about his role in WebLogic. WLDJ: Tell us about your role at BEA. Adam: Basically, I make sure that we build what's necessary for J2EE to become usable by the rest of us - on top of WebLogic Server. Whether it's building the user interface in the portal strategy, or building the overall development environment, WebLogic Workshop will make it easy for every reasonable developer to use.