There's one set of benchmarks that no one seems to want to
talk about anymore -- The TPC (www.tpc.org). These performance
benchmarks were once the darling of vendors like Oracle and Sun. The
problem now is that the top TPC benchmark products are dominated by
Microsoft.
Business Objects has agreed to acquire data integration specialist
Acta Technology as part of an effort to evolve from a business
intelligence (BI) tools provider to an enterprise analytic platform
player.
More details are emerging from Hewlett-Packard Co.’s pledge
last month to support the concept of wireless LAN "hot spots"
with a new initiative aimed at providing high-speed wireless
access points in large, public areas, such as airports, hotels
and restaurants.
Microsoft’s .NET technology is at least six months ahead of its
rivals. It’s more complete, more ready and more widely deployed
than any of its Web services framework competitors.
Fears that WorldCom's meltdown might cripple the Internet--even shut
it down completely--were spreading like an Arizona forest fire last
week.
When Excelon Corp. disclosed plans for its Extensible Information Server (XIS) XML database to support Oracle 9i, the company's Coco Jaenicke was often asked an important question: Why would one organization need two databases to store XML data?
IBM has acquired Metamerge, a directory integration software provider based in Oslo, Norway.
XML standardization is not solving all the problems in e-procurement, said Charles Ewen, e-business development manager for Premier Farnell. But he does expect that Web services can eventually resolve many of the issues his company faces in setting up electronic transactions with customers.
Microsoft will package its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) software in the upcoming Service Pack 1 update to Windows XP, but the company does not plan to include a JVM in future versions of Windows.
Toronto-based Orbit E-Commerce Inc., looking to take advantage of turmoil in the telecommunications industry to expand its voice over IP (VoIP) business in the United States, has agreed to acquire the primary network assets of NetVoice Technologies Inc.
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