Christopher “Tony” Bucchere

I'm very pleased to announce that Mingle, a prototype of a BEA/Plumtree Web 2.0 social networking application, has been posted on the BEA/Plumtree…

This fourth episode tells the story of how Papa Len "escaped from life in New York city" and began his career as a sales representative for the…

This third episode describes another historic flight of 1936. Papa Len tells the story of his first flight cover that traveled aboard this flight and…

I just cut the third episode of the bdg Plumtree Podcast. I'm very happy to say that I've worked out a glitch in the connection between the mixer and…

I rode public transit today (always good for the soul) and had a chance to listen to some of the many podcasts that I've downloaded to my iPod. One I…

With the acquisition of Plumtree by BEA in the books, all of the Plumtree products we know and love have received new monikers. / Here's a cheat…

This episode takes you back to 1929 and the historic flight in which the Graf Zeppelin circumnavigated the globe. Papa Len sent a letter around the…

In today's podcast (Episode 2: What is Plumtree?), I cover the short and long answers to the question I get asked most often: what is Plumtree? In…

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

This first episode features Papa Len telling a story of what you could get for a nickel in New York city in the early 20th century. It also explains…

Leonard W. Leeds was an amateur historian and news aficionado with amazing archival skills. He was also my grandfather-in-law. Although I only knew…

I'm very pleased to announce that bdg has officially kicked off our very much irregular and irreverent Plumtree podcast! / Please download and listen…

With a resounding victory this morning in the Booth of Pain, bdg put the wraps on what will probably be the last Plumtree Odyssey. / We sent five…

We're going for a big splash this year at the final Odyssey+ADC while Plumtree is still, well, Plumtree. / Plumtree just released the onsite guide…

Or IBM? Or Oracle? / The author of this brief article seems to think that all three companies have BEA in their sites. / Interesting

Late yesterday, Plumtree announced the release of their G6 line of products. They have made everything generally available for download for partners…

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

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

Several colleagues, coworkers, customers and other Plumtree partners have asked me for my opinion on the buyout of Plumtree by BEA Systems. I…

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

I usually don't take much interest in legal matters, but I found this tidbit quite interesting and even a bit entertaining. / Two weeks ago, in an…

I'm very pleased to announce that bdg has been selected by Plumtree as a co-sponsor of this year's Odyssey+ADC, which is Plumtree's User Conference…

This matter has been a subject of a great deal of debate among many of our customers, so I thought I would share my thoughts on the topic. What…

bdg plans to offer a 5-day Plumtree Training Course in the Washington DC Metro Area starting on August 22nd. We’re combining our two most popular…

If you like RSS and you like Plumtree, you might find the following links interesting: / This blog: http: / feeds.feedburner.com/bdg/plumtree / Links…

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.…

I can't even begin to count the number of times I've been asked how to write a query filter in Plumtree. Yesterday, I had to write one for myself and…

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

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…

Many of our customers run Plumtree on Oracle, for better or worse. / Despite it's complexities and eccentricities, it's been a good platform albeit…

I am very pleased to announce that on Friday, 8 July 2005, bdg released the PHP EDK 5.1 to the Plumtree Code Share. Largely due to a Herculean effort…

Two different customers of ours have recently experienced problems with server-to-server SSL and Plumtree, so I thought I would shed some light on…

If you'd like to see what people are doing with Plumtree on the open internet, you can search Google using the allinurl: portal/server.pt syntax. /…

All of us at bdg are very pleased to announce that our very own Andrew Morris has led Wind River to a successful launch of 5.0.4J on their corporate…

There is some interesting speculation about the future of JSR-168 going on at the Portlets Yahoo! Group. IMO (which is a redundant thing to say…

I went to the final set of sessions at NVSS today which included a gem of a presentation by Eitan Suez, a Java programmer who also happens to be a…

I also get asked this question from time to time. Unfortunately, I can't take credit for that great little game (and one of Sun's original sample…

I'm at the Northern Virginia Software Symposium this weekend, and after hearing Ted Neward speak yesterday on "The Fallacies of Enterprise Systems…

"We call this re-imagining Radical Openness. Radical Openness is our strategy to offer both J2EE and .NET versions of our entire application…

No, it's not boo-SHARE, it's not buck-HEAR, and it's certainly not buck-HAIRY. / Actually it's easy: boo-CARE-eee. Once you've said it once or heard…

I get asked this question -- or some variant of it -- all the time. Unlike almost everything else known to mankind, the answer is not: search Google.…

Perhaps I've finally realized that it's time to enter the 21st century; perhaps I'm interested in promoting my company and it’s services; perhaps I…