Grid computing, the collaborative, network-based model that enables the sharing of data and computing cycles among many processors, represents a new computing paradigm with the potential to dramatically alter the IT industry's competitive landscape, according to a new report entitled "The Global Grid Computing Report 2002 -- Technology and Market Opportunity Assessment" from consulting firm Grid Technology Partners.
Providence Health System, a Seattle-based integrated delivery system provider,
has entered a Web services initiative with Infravio, Redwood City, Calif., that provides a platform for the development, management and execution of Web services.
Another collection group of techno-companies has added to the alphabet soup of Web services with a newly published spec that's said to let developers "choreograph" events and transactions between computers when applications and services are accessed over the Internet.
BEA and Hewlett-Packard will
jointly sell integrated hardware,
software and services solutions
built around BEA’s Weblogic
application server and running
across all HP operating systems.
-June 25
Streamlining business processes is a key to achieving a successful CRM implementation, a FleetBoston executive told DCI CRM conference attendees in Boston this week. -June 21
Sun Microsystems said it will make its application server available for free on HP-UX, Windows, AIX and Linux. -June 19
There just aren't enough programmers in the world to continue writing custom adapters, says Mike Hoskins. New as they are, Web services still have to confront this issue. -June 20
New software technologies may deliver on an age-old promise. -June 20
Industry need some common way of describing and exchanging the data between devices and back-end systems, particularly in over-the-air environments. -June 17
Framework is a term used to describe a wide array of "things" that provide IT developers with some degree of pre-built functionality.For the more cynical, an equally valid description of a framework is "something that hasn't been finished." -June 17
Long-time software configuration management player Merant has moved more deeply into the content management software space with a new release this week of Collage. -June 17
IBM moves quickly to spread Eclipse support throughout its many tool sets. -June 17
Last week, Oracle's Larry Ellison addressed questions about a controversial deal gleefully. -June 12
Business software maker Informatica sees analytic implementations moving from the batch to near-real-time computing realm. -June 11
While Sun Microsystems works as hard as any vendor to enable
next-generation Web services middleware architectures, company
scientist James Gosling that Web services are
not really new. -[WEEK OF JUNE 3, 2002]
Released at the XML Web Services One expo in San Jose, Calif., software from eXcelon is intended to speed XSLT development. -- June 8
Four distributors of the open-source Linux operating system have announced their intention to join in the formation of a single version of the OS. -WEEK OF JUNE 3, 2002
ProClarity shows its platform for building analytics at the TDWI conference in San Diego. - May 29
The new Solaris 9 adds more than 300 new features, and Sun execs characterized the upgrade as the biggest in the 10-year history of the flagship OS. -May 29
FineGround Networks Inc. has unveiled the Condenser Application Acceleration
Suite 4.0 for speeding page generation of Web applications.