Sometimes it seems like developers can turn anything into a battle to the death.
Take the apparently-simple matter of coding standards, for example. Why do we
keep fighting about these things?
Logistics is a concern for the $450 billion a year Department of Defense (DoD). To become the best in class logistics, the DoD is turning to radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.
Supply-chain security and environmental compliance are things to watch for in the next supply-chain wave, predicted Bruce Richardson at AMR Research's recent Supply Chain Executive Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Mike Milinkovich is the first executive director of the newly independent Eclipse Foundation. A spokesman for the Eclipse board of directors said the body selected Milinkovich, who most recently was a vice president for technical services at Oracle Corp., for his executive leadership abilities in both the technical and business fields.
Microsoft says they'll wipe out spam within the next couple of years. I don't
really believe that, but with some effort it's possible to avoid seeing most
spam today.
Segue Software and Borland outlined plans to jointly market a bundled J2EE offering for optimizing the performance of enterprise Java applications. The agreement calls for selling a joint offering that incorporates Segue's SilkPerformer load and performance testing toolset and Borland's Optimizeit ServerTrace J2EE root-cause analysis offering.
XML-based standards being developed by multiple standards bodies, and currently in various iterations and levels of maturity, have become the bane of the Web services developer. However, while acknowledging that "standards bodies are notoriously slow," Gartner analysts believe the situation will improve in the next five years.
Web services remain a "moving target" in the view of Gartner Inc. analysts, but it doesn't stop them from predicting where the technology is going. If you liked the dot-com boom, hold onto your hat. One of the places Web services is going is into new e-commerce applications, which will be "widespread by 2009," predicted David Smith, a Gartner vice president and research fellow.
Sun Microsystems Inc. roll out its first radio frequency identification (RFID) software product and Sun officials said the new Java System RFID Software is designed to simplify the integration of RFID data into enterprise information systems and to reduce the complexity of managing the massive amounts of data expected to result from the proliferation of this technology.
BEA Systems and The Middleware Company (TMC) have jointly published a set of "blueprints" for developing and implementing applications that use Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs.
With the Information Bridge Framework, Microsoft tries to tighten the
connections between three of their product lines. Is this worth your while to
look at?
Online trading giant eBay expanded the reach of its growing developer program by signing up Borland Software to distribute eBay and PayPal SDKs to Delphi developers.
Sure, there were lots of significant software announcements at this year's Tech
Ed. But you might have missed some of the other downloads that snuck out of
Microsoft with less fanfare.
At Microsoft TechEd 2004 in San Diego, Microsoft provided further details on its upcoming database release now known as SQL Server 2005 (formerly code-named “Yukon”). The software will natively support Web services, XML and encryption.
BEA Systems' chief exec Alfred Chuang kicked off the ninth annual eWorld user conference in San Francisco this week by officially rolling out his company's Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy, which is based on BEA's vision of a "fluid enterprise" enabled by a set of products and services collectively dubbed "Liquid Computing."
BEA Systems used the stage of its annual user conference in San Francisco to disclose plans to turn its open-source Project Beehive effort over to the Apache Software Foundation.
Visual Studio 2005 Team System was announced on Monday, and now the pundits will
be
scrambling to tell you what to think. I don't know what I think myself yet, but
here are a few preliminary thoughts.
Microsoft is urging developers working on or maintaining applications running on Windows XP to get up to speed on Service Pack 2 (SP2), currently a Release Candidate 1 (RC1).
Despite plenty of pre-briefings and a measured rollup to launch, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (formerly Whidbey) packed a few surprises when it was formerly announced at Microsoft's TechEd conference this week in San Diego. While the company had already suggested that operations modeling would be part of the mix, the breadth of promised integration between different application life-cycle tools was notable.