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Product Briefs

A look at software tools and technologies on the market.

What’s in the name “Web service”?

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.

Q&A: Akamai takes grid computing to the Edge

ADT’s Will Kilburn recently spoke with Bill Weihl, CTO at Akamai Technologies, about EdgeComputing, his firm’s foray into grid computing.

An organic view to developing software: A review of “Managing Software for Growth”

Review of new book on application development management.

EII — The return of the virtual data warehouse?

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).

Q&A: Integration in the offing

Sonic Software CTO Gordon Van Huizen discussed the business of integration in a recent interview with ADT Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan.

Q&A: SOAP gains traction

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.

Reporter’s notebook: A random walk through the modeling firmament

Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan provides readers with a unique look at modeling issues around the industry.

The autonomic promise

Some of the world’s largest technology companies are spending huge sums to solve a problem that has been talked about for years -- providing computing resources on demand, and allowing automatic maintenance and updating of systems without human intervention.

Management Spotlight: NYC modernizes mainframe to rebuild city

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.

Product Briefs

A look at software tools and technologies on the market.

Risk and respect

IT may not draw more respect, but with the growing attention to regulatory compliance, IT folks -- and software firms, in particular -- may command more scrutiny than many have been accustomed to.

Books in Brief: Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach

Update tackles the problem of defining software requirements by outlining six key phases in defining a software system’s requirements.

Perspective on XML: What is this ‘agility’?

The pitch on the buzzword “agility” is that software development can be more like a maneuverable motorcycle than a lumbering locomotive.

Analyst’s Soapbox: Is it lock-in or is it commitment?

Gary Barnett asks whether lock-in truly is the demon we all make it out to be or whether it is just a case of being afraid to tie the knot.

Reporter’s Notebook: Risk is real

It is quite possible that the notion of the real-time enterprise will confront the IT development manager with a risk-reward problem of the kind that can make or break a career.

Books in Brief: Web services from a business perspective: A review of “Web Services: A Manager’s Guide”

New book advises when to use Web services and when not to use Web services.

Q&A: Objects meet VB .NET

ADT’s Jack Vaughan spoke earlier this year with Deborah Kurata of InStep Technologies Inc. about the migration of Visual Basic developers to .NET.

Goyal takes Lotus helm

ADT’s Jack Vaughan spoke recently with IBM’s new Lotus group head, Ambuj Goyal. He talked to us from his offices in Sommers, N.Y.

Product Briefs

A look at software tools and technologies on the market.