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.
BroadVision's latest release marks its move from personalization and point tools to a broader portal offering. -May 21
Humility descended on Steve Jobs one day in May. The occasion? A roll out of a belated Apple server market offering. - May 21
Borland Software Corp introduced JBuilder 7 at Borland's BorCon 2002 developer conference in Anaheim, Calif. The product brings a number of useful enterprise development capabilities to the Java world. -May 20
VA Software Corp. has unveiled SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.1, an updated version of its collaborative software development platform. Upgrades to the software are intended to better position SourceForge for enterprise implementation. -May 17
The government's efforts to go online are troubled, but there are some good signs, according to Gartner. -May 17
"Chaos costs money," said Al McPhee of Ford, "process can reduce expenditures." He recently implemented new provisioning processes using StorageNetworks software. -May 16
AvantGo this week released
M-Business Server 5.0 Application Edition, which supports XML Web
services, DOM and dynamic HTML. It enables use of VisualStudio
.NET, and programming languages such as C# and Java. -May 15
Several moves position Somerville, Mass.-based Spotfire as a potential data analytics powerhouse. -May 14
According to testing guru Adam Kolawa, founder
and CEO of Parasoft Corp., the pursuit of perfect code must carry on -- especially
in the emerging Internet-centric world of Web services.
Multimedia and Web design toolmaker Macromedia has moved deeper into
the enterprise application development business with the recent unveiling of
the Macromedia MX family of client, tool and server technologies.
IBM will unveil a new version of its DB2 OLAP Server system that insiders say incorporates both data mining and data analysis technology.
At its annual user group conference in Orlando, Fla., Computer Associates (CA)
announces a reorganization into five brand units based on six brands.
An enterprise software category BEA calls "Application Infrastructure"
will be a $57 billion market by 2005, said Rani Merritt, senior vice president at BEA Systems Inc.
Microsoft has taken another step into the Bluetooth camp with its announcement
last week that it will begin shipping a USB Bluetooth transceiver, keyboard
and mouse later this year, using the wireless networking technology to connect
to PCs.