The path to establishment or obscurity of many of today’s leading technologies may be defined in terms of whether they are accepted under the remarkable buzzword of “Web services,” or indeed whether or not people learn to see through the buzzword.
Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan shares his thoughts on grid and network computing.
It is difficult to debate the need for real-time analytics because the definition of real time itself can be so highly subjective, but everybody wants data “while it’s hot.” Development managers need to navigate a wide field of hyperbole to find the big picture.
ADT’s Will Kilburn recently spoke with Bill Weihl, CTO at Akamai Technologies, about EdgeComputing, his firm’s foray into grid computing.
Development teams are finding their way toward the new Microsoft platform. They are encountering decent performance, sketchy security standards and a handful of best practices.
In the “aught-world” of standards (2000 and beyond, that is), compliance is a moving target. Vendors are beginning to push UML 2.0 products, but some people wonder if today’s “standardization” is adequate.
Review of new book on application development management.
Like all good information technologies, virtual data warehouses never died. It is now re-emerging under a new guise and with a slightly new mission. Its new name: Enterprise Information Integration (EII).
The concept of a self-healing infrastructure is great, but how does that help the developer? Zohar Gilad maintains that the notion of on-demand or utility computing is "a more beautiful name for outsourcing."
Sonic Software CTO Gordon Van Huizen discussed the business of integration in a recent interview with ADT Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan.
Java and Web services get all the fanfare now, but CORBA was first with a host of crucial breakthroughs in distributed computing. It’s here, it works and this update tells you what’s next.
ADT’s Jack Vaughan spoke recently with Rebecca Dias, Microsoft product manager for advanced Web services, about the status of the technology in Redmond today and in the future.
Among bigger software players outside of the database realm, none has been faster off the block to promote XQuery than BEA Systems.
IBM calls it autonomic, Microsoft calls it dynamic, Hewlett-Packard calls it adaptive -- if it works, developers may someday deploy their apps on “crashless grids” of computers.
The Department of Buildings updated its front end to make it easier to query information on building history or to check the status of a permit. A side benefit: reduction of long lines and better use of employee time.
Most major software suppliers are waiting on the XQuery standard to be finalized before they ship any related products. An update from IBM, Oracle and some smaller vendors.
The still-developing standard for querying XML documents is garnering more support from vendors. But it will likely be a while before most shops have to deal with it directly.
Oracle’s application business draws attention right now, but its evolving tools tactics are crucial to legions of developers grappling with data, Java and XML.
Oracle will begin a potentially big new push in Grid computing.
Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan provides readers with a unique look at modeling issues around the industry.