milestones

20 posts

2008

The Social Collective Debuts at RubyNation

June 10, 2008
We're very pleased to announce that, together with the organizers of RubyNation, we debuted our social application "The Social Collective" today as a…

bdg welcomes Rémy Miralles!

February 15, 2008
I'm very pleased to announce our first hire of the year, Rémy Miralles! / Rémy hails from just outside Paris, France, so this marks the first time…

2007

Visual Design

August 19, 2007
We started applying the visual design tonight, which means one thing: we're getting close! The image to the left is the first cut at the logo. The…

bdg Announces Plans to Launch Social News Site

July 17, 2007
Today bdg announced plans to launch a Web 2.0 social news site in Q3 of this calendar year (2007). / This site, which will be called Feedhaus, will…

Welcome to Feedhaus

July 13, 2007
Welcome to the Feedhaus blog! / Several of us at bdg are working hard to bring you a next-generation, Web 2.0 news site that will change the way the…

Chris Bucchere Quoted in BEA Research Brief

June 7, 2007
Off The Record Research, a subscription-based Wall Street publication, recently prepared a research brief on BEA that was released to their customers…

Chris Bucchere Interviewed by the Sloan (MIT) School of Management

May 13, 2007
Last week I had the pleasure of being interviewed by former Plumtreevian and soon-to-be-graduate of MIT's Sloan School of Management, John Osborne.…

Happy Birthday, bdg!

January 12, 2007
bdg just turned four! To celebrate the beginning of year five, we've launched a new web site. It's all about how bdg, given our background of…

2006

Ruby IDK 5.3 development has begun

August 12, 2006
We've laid down the basic architecture for the Ruby IDK 5.3 and written most of IPortletContext and IPortletRequest. We also now have a test bed…

bdg welcomes Andrew Bays to the team

August 6, 2006
It is with great pleasure that I ask you all to join me in welcoming our newest addition to the team, Andrew Bays. / Andrew will be starting this…

BEAWorld 2006 sponsorship is a go

July 23, 2006
Check out our logo on the BEAWorld sponsors page. We're the first AquaLogic User Interaction partner to sign up (and the only one so far)!

Mingle & the PHP EDK moved to dev2dev's CodeShare

July 7, 2006
Just in case you're looking for our two opensource projects that were once accessible via the Plumtree Portal, you can now find them on BEA dev2dev's…

Announcing my new dev2dev blog

June 22, 2006
I'm very pleased to announce that I've been selected by BEA to be one of their featured bloggers on dev2dev, BEA's product community site for…

2005

Official transition date/time

October 18, 2005
I heard from someone on the inside that at noon on Thursday, October 20th, Plumtree officially becomes the AquaLogic devision of BEA.

Steve Markoff – welcome to bdg!

September 16, 2005
I am very pleased to announce that Steve Markoff, an outstanding software engineer with over 10 years of product development experience and a…

Howie Bagley joins bdg – welcome to the team!

August 31, 2005
I am very pleased to announce the addition of the newest member of our team, portal industry veteran and consultant extraordinaire, Howie Bagley. /…

BEA plans to acquire Plumtree Software

August 22, 2005
Big news: BEA plans to aquire Plumtree Software for $5.50/share or about $200 million in cash. Read the full story.

It's official: bdg becomes a Plumtree partner

July 27, 2005
I am very pleased to announce that bdg has joined Plumtree's Synergy Alliance program. Please check out our partner landing page on www.plumtree.com.…

We've moved!

July 17, 2005
Effective immediately, bdg's new place of business is located at 13800 Coppermine Road in Herndon, Virginia, just 10 minutes from Washington Dulles…

bdg's new hires and site changes

July 17, 2005
All of us at bdg are very pleased to welcome the newest members of our team: Rich Weinhold and Eric Bucchere. / Rich, our resident PHP and Plumtree…