Well, maybe not yet. But what does the future hold for those who consider their source code an important proprietary asset?
Avoiding failure is obviously critical to any plan for success, and requires constant patrolling for signs of processes gone awry, support slipping away and other omens of impending doom.
Among the most critical skills lacking in project management today are the ability to say “no,” and the willingness to be a naysayer.
Because Longhorn remains a vague concept to most Microsoft customers, a clue to its eventual success might be found by looking at how the installed base fared with .NET, released barely two years ago.
Despite signs of progress, the data warehousing and business intelligence industry still has a way to go before it masters meta data.
Some software developers work their entire careers without acquiring the skills needed to produce quality production code. Are you one?
The elders always said that XML 1.0 was but one part of a foundational trio comprising XML Core (syntax), XML Stylesheets and XML Linking, but it didn't take long for things to spiral out of control ... It may be moving beyond 1.0, but -- for now -- don't rush toward the next generation of XML.
There are a ‘bazillion’ different ways of going about it, says one expert.
Unilever Latin America believed there had to be a better way to track regional information and improve business performance.
Application development, integration and deployment environments are converging to address an emerging opportunity: Web services orchestration requirements.
In late August, Ford Motor Co. abandoned its Herculean effort to reach the summit of its five-year Everest Web purchasing project. Neither Ford nor Oracle, its partner, is talking, but according to analysts, while cost may have sounded the death knell, the real killers were poor design, integration issues and IT sprawl.
Software developers have only vague ideas of what Longhorn will offer, and
conflicting opinions on whether those features will be valuable.
As Patricia Keefe writes in Oops! Ford and Oracles Mega-Software Project Crumbles, the bigger the project, the more likely it will fall apart before it’s done.
A review of Portfolio 7 and TierDeveloper 4.0 Enterprise Edition
Longhorn will combine a new Windows platform with a new software development platform that expands on and, in some ways, changes the .NET Framework.
A look at software tools and technologies on the market.
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina used to win top honors in Fortune magazine’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business list with the regularity with which a young Ali once KO’d opponents. But for the first time since the list debuted in 1998, there’s a new champion -- Meg Whitman, president and CEO of eBay is now “the most powerful woman in American business.”
The Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse was built on the premise that the business model is constantly changing. Because of this approach, the warehouse can provide consistent management information in very complex, multinational enterprises.
Sun has designed Java Studio Creator to be the Visual Basic of Java and J2EE Web development. It’s not there yet, but JSC is a major improvement over NetBeans, Eclipse, and even IntelliJ and JBuilder for quickly creating JSP applications that use JavaServer Faces.