It’s been about two months since we announced TIBCO Silver, and the overall response has been overwhelmingly positive. We are very pleased with the positive reaction and excitement that Silver has generated among our customers, partners, press and the analyst community. There have been quite a few articles by the press and blogs by various independent thinkers on Silver. Here is a quick synopsis of some of the analyst articles and blog posts.

On the analyst front - Gartner published its research note on TIBCO Silver (Aug 6, 2009) titled “TIBCO’s Silver Cloud-Computing Platform Shows Potential.” Authored by some of the leading Gartner analysts, the report gives us positive feedback overall on our positioning and calls out our cloud platform strategy as “genuine”(not just another AMI) and describes the offering as unique and ahead of the curve compared to the other cloud platforms. MWD published its first take on Silver titled “TIBCO gets on to the Cloud with Silver,” noting that TIBCO is the first vendor offering an enterprise class cloud platform. Several other analyst firms, including Forrester, have given us their thumbs up on Silver.

On the independent blog front - “ The next generation of cloud-development platforms” is a very interesting blog post by James Urquhart. His depiction of Silver’s three-element architecture is right on the mark, although I would like to point out that the only component that runs in our datacenter is the initial provisioning server. Once the account is provisioned, Silver and all its components run entirely on the customer’s virtual machine instances. Other interesting blog posts are “TIBCO Silver: RAD and governance for enterprise clouds” by Dennis Howlett , “TIBCO Silver – Amazon for dummies” by Maureen O’Gara, “TIBCO takes PaaS plus integration capabilities to global enterprises via their choice of clouds” by Dana Gardner. These blogs explain Silver quite well and are all good reads.

We also published a couple of articles highlighting the challenges that enterprise customer have in adopting cloud computing - Enterprise Ready Rapid Delivery Platform for the Cloud and Cloud Governance.

The Silver Beta Program is in full swing. Since the beta program was kick-started on July 20^th, more than 200 customers have registered. In my next blog post I will detail the interesting set of cloud use-case patterns that have come to the fore. Btw, if you haven’t done so already, please sign up for the TIBCO Silver Beta program.

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