Thoughts on purity, functionality, compatibility and more.
Here's a look behind IBM's middleware strategy and how it's playing out for systems management vendors.
Enterprise JavaBeans simplify plumbing tasks - but the spec is still young.
The back end is where the action is -- management must hook it up to the Web, and fast!
A new breed of enterprise integration software acts as needed "middleman" between disparate packaged applications.
Some developers have cast their lot with COM, others mix and match.
"Enterprise data marts" promise central repositories that feed satellite data marts on an as-needed basis. But a lack of integrated standards could leave I/S "holding the bag"
Some love them, some hate them. But Microsoft tool managers set the industry pace.
Corba or DCOM? The decision depends on how your firm deploys business-critical apps, as well as on the importance of each technology's requirements to your system.