Longtime Java Report Editor Dwight Deugo recently reported to us on some of the more stimulating chatter heard at last fall's OOPSLA conference, including a discussion of how intellectual property rights may inhibit creativity in software innovation.
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina's unveiled a new digital music player, revealed an online music alliance with Apple Computer, and
weighed in on the online music piracy debate at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this past week.
IBM is providing a "technology preview" of WebSphere Application Server, V6, which will provide a J2EE 1.4-certified runtime and support for JCA 1.5.
All knowledge is out on the World Wide Web somewhere. But increasingly, the
parts that I care about are already on my computer when I go to look for them.
Could RSS quietly revolutionize the way we use the Internet?
Assorted development toolmakers and large users have banded together to create yet another standards body, the Java Tools Community (JTC), in an effort that founders hope will lead to the creation of a Java technology process that
is more affordable and easier to use.
Faced with ebbing revenues from traditional PC sales, Microsoft and other industry heavyweights,
such as Intel and Hewlett-Packard, are moving aggressively into the market for digital home entertainment.
Developing Windows software as a non-administrative user seems like a sensible
idea...until you really think about it.
Actuate Corp. is basing its business on the belief that enterprise reporting app platforms must provide business information to users of varying skill and interest levels -- an
idea that conflicts with the traditional belief that such tools are strictly for management types.
Tim Berners-Lee -- inventor of the World Wide Web as well as founder and
director of the W3C, which established the XML standard -- will become a Knight
Commander, Order of the British Empire.
Ascential Software Corp. has placed a big bet on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). And Bob
Zurek, the firm's vice president of advanced technologies and product management, contends that the bet is already beginning to pay off.
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs kicked off this week's Macworld Conference with a bit of nostalgia on the 1984 launch of the Macintosh computer and talked about his company's expansion into online music, digital media editing software
and supercomputing.
Seeking to expand the ranks of Java programmers, BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, Calif., and Compuware Corp., Detroit, last month disclosed plans to integrate their respective Java development toolsets.
Perhaps the greatest change in development in recent years has been the expansion of the application user community via the World Wide Web. Development targets quite usually today are wide-area network targets. And networks with seeming 'bandwidth to burn' can get quite stingy when least expected.
Your career is your responsibility. What are you going to do about it this year?
According to officials from BluePhoenix Solutions and Cook Systems, the process they call Cobol
Regeneration can yield applications that are more reusable, easier to maintain and more responsive to accommodating new business processes.
Thanks to the growing popularity of .NET, you can now choose among a wide variety of free and commercial tools to automate the build process for your .NET applications. Here's a quick roundup of the contenders.
A player early to stake out the fast portal development space was Bowstreet. The company recently updated its offerings with Bowstreet Portlet Factory for WebSphere Version 5.7.
We all know the next version of SQL Server is on the way. But do you know what
you should be doing to prepare for it?
Akamai Technologies Inc. and IBM have started
shipping the fruits of a partnership that called for the building of software to make it easier to deploy J2EE Web apps built on IBM's WebSphere across Akamai's global computing platform.