Even as Linux makes substantial inroads on the server side, observers ask if it will ever play a big role on client systems. While administrative software helpings were most plentiful on the plates at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo last week in New York City, client-side developments were somewhat sparse.
Sun Microsystems Inc. (http://www.sun.com) today disclosed plans to bundle a new version of the Describe UML modeling tool from Embarcadero Technologies (http://www.embarcadero.com) with the SunONE Studio Integrated Development Environment.
IBM this week used the LinuxWorld stage to unveil a new implementation of its mainstay relational database -- DB2 for Linux Clustering.
Altova Inc., Beverly Mass., has unveiled a set of tools aimed at delivering XML technology to DBAs at Oracle sites.
The SCO Group this week created a new business division dubbed SCOsource to manage the licensing of its Unix intellectual property assets and hired famed Microsoft prosecutor David
Boies to defend those assets.
The current "tough economy" will spur greater deployment of Web services for
integration inside and outside the firewall, moves that will lead to a revival of much maligned B2B efforts, predicts Jeff Tonkel in his first week as president and CEO of Infravio Inc.
Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. this week signed an agreement aimed at boosting the visibility of both firms in the quickly emerging network attached storage (NAS) business.
Sun Microsystems last week began shipping Version 6.0 of its SunONE Identity Server, said to be one of the first commercially available ID servers based on Liberty Alliance Project specifications for federated network identity.
Open-source software distributor Lindows.com is reaching out to schools with an unlimited licensing offer.
While XML is primarily a software technology, DataPower Technology Inc. offers a vision of hardware for processing XML, especially in
Web services applications.
Sybase Inc. has been offering a
mini-warehouse solution -- Industry Warehouse Studio -- to help customers jumpstart the design and development of their enterprise analytic applications.
Doug Ring, vice president of eBusiness technology at Geac Enterprise Solutions, sees a future for global Web services where mobile devices
link to a variety of applications as part of as yet-unimagined business models. But that's in the future. Right now, the focus in a conservative economic climate is on nitty-gritty business chores.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and IBM disclosed last week that they would be
collaborating on the development of new processing technologies for future
high-performance products.
Macromedia Inc. has announced the immediate
availability of Macromedia JRun 4 for Mac OS X, a J2EE-compatible application server.
Apple now offers the company's largest laptop screen, its smallest full-featured laptop
and its fastest communications standard.
The bitter rivalry between Microsoft Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. appears to be back in full force after several Apple moves disclosed by CEO Steve Jobs during last week's MacWorld conference in San Francisco.
Following up on the November announcement that it was taking over the PKI Forum, OASIS announced this week that it has formed a new technical committee to "advance adoption of the Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) for Web services and other applications."
Developer's Corner, http://dev.systinet.com/, a new online community for users of Web services tools from Systinet Corp., launched this week.
A group of Gartner Inc. analysts begin 2003 with a list of eight resolutions that can help IT personnel of all ranks keep their careers on track.
Telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies rang in the new year with a big win, consummating a $100 million deal with US Cellular to deploy the wireless carrier's third-generation (3G) infrastructure.