Compared with some companies, auto parts supplier Behr America's Dayton, OH, facility isn't exactly crowded with PCs. But with 450-plus desktop clients distributed in five buildings across the 1.1 million-square-foot plant, a sneakernet approach to software management and maintenance just isn't an option.
Trend Micro is delivering an upgraded version of its InterScan Web Security Suite that the company says will stave off viruses and other Internet threats that continually target enterprises.
Vendors are making significant announcements this week in San Francisco at
the annual JavaOne conference, which marks the 10th anniversary of Java.
WebMed Technology, a healthcare technology consultancy, practices what it preaches. The company provides services such as Web site development and custom application development to hospitals, physicians, pharmaceutical companies and other healthcare organizations across Canada.
Companies aren’t making decisions on a whim anymore. Instead, they’re banking on reliable, honest and timely information to organize their enterprise data and enhance analytics capabilities, according to recent survey by Knightsbridge Solutions.
IBM’s plan to combine technologies from its recent acquisition of Ascential Software with its existing information integration portfolio moved forward with the company’s announcement of the beta release of two new products: IBM Rational Data Architect and IBM WebSphere Information Analyzer.
Oracle is set to ship the latest version of its Database 10g software. Oracle 10g Release 2 is a high-quality, robust maintenance release for the company’s installed base, says Andy Mendelsohn, Oracle’s SVP of data server technologies. But, he adds, “we did include a small number of new features that we felt were critical to get out to market, fast.”
The good thing about Web services is that they expose interfaces, streamline connections
and accelerate business processes. The bad thing about Web services is that they
expose interfaces, streamline connections and accelerate business processes.
Microsoft plans to extend its Office Communicator 2005 instant-messaging client to the Web, the company disclosed, with a server-side component dubbed Office Communicator Web Access.
eBay is giving the members of its developer programs access to the source code for various eBay and PayPal tools and sample applications. The code is being released today on the newly launched eBay Community Codebase Web site, which the company created to serve as an online forum for open-source developer collaboration.
Developers are justifiably eager for the forthcoming Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 specification (due with J2EE 5.0), says Pierre Fricke. EJB 3.0 overhauls the Enterprise JavaBean architecture that drives business logic and persistence for J2EE applications, simplifying the programming model to significantly improve developer productivity.
Magic Software is preparing a new version of its eDeveloper app environment for release on Aug. 1, with added features such as capabilities for XML handling in applications, support for Unicode and functions for date-time support.
Some analysts say the AquaLogic data service platform BEA Systems announced last week is the last, best hope of a one-time J2EE market leader.
Sun Microsystems has released an early developer beta of a repository/registry designed to help users locate and reuse Web services. The Sun Service Registry combines an integrated repository for storing the metadata accumulated around Web services with services lifecycle management capabilities.
JBoss Inc. released the latest version of its open-source, Java-based portal product. The new JBoss Portal 2.0 embraces the Java portlet API specification (JSR-168) and provides an extensible portal framework designed to integrate dynamic Web pages and applications within standardized reusable portlets.
Beginning to incorporate a service-oriented architecture into the enterprise sounds great, but managing the associated services, interfaces and metadata is a critical element. SOA management products, such as those for metadata management, are thus becoming more and more important.
Conventional wisdom about software platforms is that the largest companies run IBM and Java technologies, ceding much of the mid- and smaller business market to Microsoft and .NET. But that’s hardly Big Blue’s view of the future.
Service-oriented architectures are facilitating the evolution of traditional siloed, proprietary call/contact centers into standards-based, multi-channel doorways into the enterprise. So says Brian Garr, program director and segment manager for contact center solutions in IBM’s software group.
If you think dealing with burgeoning data volumes inside the enterprise is a challenge, spend a day with the folks on the front line.
Sun Microsystems officially released to open source the "lion's share" of its Solaris operating system source code—approximately five million lines, including the kernel, networking stack, libraries and commands for the Solaris 10 OS.