John R. RymerVice President, Principal Analyst
Application Infrastructure Technologies, Application Platforms & Programming Strategy, High-Tech, Application Development, Business Rules, Application Server Platforms, Financial Services, Application Development Processes & Tools, Architecture & Technology Strategy, Healthcare & Life Sciences
John serves Application Development & Program Management professionals. He is a leading expert on the market for application platforms and infrastructure software for building and running applications. Included in his coverage are the Java/J2EE application servers from BEA, IBM, JBoss, Oracle, SAP, and Sun Microsystems and the equivalent portions of Microsoft's .NET platform. John also covers the business rules platforms market.
John came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group and has a combined total of six years with the company. He has worked as an industry analyst in middleware for more than 12 years, starting in 1989. John's industry experience includes a stint as vice president of product marketing for IONA Technologies, where he gained firsthand experience in creating and executing market strategies.Before joining IONA, John was principal consultant and founder of Upstream Consulting, a vendor-strategy consulting group within Fleishman-Hillard International Communications.John is a frequent speaker at Forrester conferences for IT professionals.
John graduated from Ohio University with a B.S. in journalism.
Lean Software Is Agile, Fit-To-Purpose, And Efficient December 12, 2008 (Rating: 10) BookmarkPDF
Microsoft Azure: Low Immediate Impact But Watch This Space December 10, 2008 BookmarkPDF
What Oracle's And SAP's App Strategies Mean To App Dev Pros November 14, 2008 (Rating: 9) BookmarkPDF
Which Has The Better Apps Strategy: Oracle Or SAP? October 31, 2008 (Rating: 5) BookmarkPDF
Oracle Absorbs BEA's Middleware: The Impact On Application Development Managers July 30, 2008 (Rating: 4) BookmarkPDF
Translating Design for People, Build for Change into Practice, Part I (Build for Change) February 2009 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
Future Of Application Servers February 2009 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
Best Practices: SharePoint Development May 2009 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
TechRadar: Application Platforms March 2009 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
John enjoys running.
