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Software license to ill

For some vendors, software licenses are like minting money -- but for many software buyers the yearly license invoice is their most dreaded mail. Something has to give.

Book review: On the march with Ed Yourdon

Once a project has reached death march status, it will be next to impossible to fulfill all the requirements by the time you reach your deadline. That being the case, the best you can do is to determine which features you must implement and concentrate on getting those done.

Product Briefs

A look at software tools and technologies on the market.

Ad hoc BI is killing us!

It's back to the future as all the major BI suppliers have moved to add the reporting capabilities they once ridiculed as old-fashioned and out of touch to their suites.

FrontPage, front and center

Serious corporate developers and weekend homepage builders alike will find a lot to appreciate in Microsoft FrontPage 2003.

User story: At Fidelity

Fidelity Information Services' Nancy Landau describes her company's effort to have testers work more closely with enterprise monitoring teams to find process changes that could help bridge the gap between development and operations.

Sarbanes-Oxley: A gift from the government?

New rules to protect investors can give savvy CIOs a raison d'etre for moving forward with innovative new projects that limit legal exposure of top execs.

A Letter to the Editor: Taking issue

A reader takes issue with a column by Uche Ogbuji.

Conversation with Ken Orr

Ken Orr has long provided IT units with his expertise on a variety of subjects ranging from BPM and software engineering to data warehousing and knowledge management. Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan caught up with Orr recently to get his latest insights.

What's next for app servers?

There have been periods when experts called for replacing all things technology, but for the most part, managers recognize that maintaining and updating legacy systems is vital to corporate success.

Oracle compares evolution of app server, database

Thomas Kurian, senior VP of development in Oracle's app server group, sees parallels between the evolution of the app server and the database.

Review: SnapBridge

This enterprise-level system lets you use dynamic XML to share all manner of information, whether it started in XML or not.

Review: SmartDraw

SmartDraw provides an easy-to-use drawing package with a wide variety of symbols at a cost-effective price.

Review: AccuRev

AccuRev is an innovative source code control system that features truly atomic transactions, perfectly permanent history, and a nifty graphical client.

Review: SQL Comparison & Synchronization Toolkit

From the makers of SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare, this library exposes an API that you can call from your .NET applications to work with multiple SQL Server databases.

Review: Teamplate

Teamplate is a serious workflow framework that integrates with a host of Microsoft products. It's easy to use, both for the developer and the ultimate customer, and offers impressive flexibility.

Review: Veredus

Rascal Software's Veredus is an easy-to-use single-source documentation builder that stores its projects using XML standards.

Briefing: Logidex .NET Library

Logidex .NET Library offers a way to maintain an enterprise-wide repository of Software Development Assets. It's integrated directly into Visual Studio .NET for ease of use.

Review: XtraBars

XtraBars offers a dizzying array of flexible UI components, complete with source code, for an attractive price.