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.
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