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XML joins the IT workforce

Diploma in hand, and ready to get down to business, XML has quickly found its niche in business computing.

Getting Personal on the Web

Personalization promises to teach corporations all they want to learn about customers. But the fervor for such tools may diminish unless standards and ethical concerns are faced.<br> With: The language of personalization<br> With: A closer look at the personalization space

Mining gives meaning to complex data

New tools, techniques let IT more quickly and cheaply sift through critical data, while significantly improving the quality of the analysis.<br>With: Data mining tools With: Coming of age<br> With: The data mining lexicon<br> With: Text mining<br> With: Data mining books

Upstart ASPs can be fruitful for IT

IT must ensure ASP strengths match their needs, and be confident that the supplier can sustain a long-term relationship.<br> With: Put your ASP under the microscope<br> With: Growing your own ASP<br> With: Nothing fishy here

Opening the gates to a new era

Open source software is driving new IT business and development models; access to source code provides users with control of their own destiny.<br> With: Turning a business around with open source<br> With: A sampling of open source software

Overcoming the Obstacles to META DATA Management

Meta data "repositories" are slow to catch on, but XML and other technologies promise to help overcome obstacles; emerging integrated meta data management systems promise to better link corporate islands of information.

Everyman's Guide to Data Warehousing

Essential questions to be answered before going ahead with a data warehouse project.

Wireless DevelopmentLegacy goes wireless

IT scrambles to get corporate data onto wireless devices; experts list assorted paths for different objectives. With: Wireless tools and services With: What to remember

EJB components: Distributed object containers this way come

Components have long been touted as a means to distributed computing. Enterprise JavaBean servers may move that dream closer to reality, some users suggest. Scalability and portability are big pluses.

CORBA and EJB Team Up in Data Center

Potential conflict between CORBA standard and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) de facto standard is blunted as the OMG and Sun both recommend a combination — CORBA for legacy systems and EJB for the fresh new mid-tier and front-end apps.

The Ever-Changing Microsoft Repository

The strategy has changed over the years, but Microsoft continues to plug away in its effort to build a workable repository that could radically shift the IT development process.

Wake up and smell the Java

Think your Web apps are ready to meet the competition? A look at Java testing tools that can help your organization avoid e-business pitfalls.