It’s a brave new world for application integration DARING INNOVATION IS not the reason why Web services will disrupt the status quo. It is easy to exchange XML-formatted messages via the Internet — and that, of course, is exactly the…

Real-time collaboration takes corporate users by storm IM (INSTANT MESSAGING) is changing corporate communications, and it’s doing so without the prodding or even the approval of executives and IT managers. Combining the real-time advantages of a phone call with the…

P-to-P technologies create new models of knowledge sharing IF A TECHNOLOGY considered more disruptive to business than peer-to-peer file sharing exists — as seen by the effort to ban corporate access to sites such as Gnutella and Napster — then…

Emerging standards prepare wireless networks for prime time WIRELESS NETWORKS based on the 802.11 standard, also known as Wi-Fi, were all the rage last year and promise to be even more popular in 2002, as the growing use of Pocket…

Will virus technology be part of future software delivery systems? ALTHOUGH THE PROSPECT of using virus technology to simplify the task of delivering patches and software updates is tempting, the dangers can outweigh the benefits when the process is too…

Storage networks fuel the distributed enterprise THE MARRIAGE OF networking and storage technologies is not only simplifying the way storage is managed, it also promises to revolutionize the way enterprise storage is used, allowing corporate data to be pushed to…

A new development framework challenges enterprise Java AFTER BEING THRASHED in the enterprise software market by the likes of Sun, IBM, and Linux, Microsoft is pinning its comeback hopes on its new application framework, .Net. Although the freedom to use…

PAKISTAN’S TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS Development Office near Silicon Valley is being shut down after less than six months of operation, the country’s IT envoy there confirmed Thursday. The office was set up in July in Los Altos, California, to help U.S.…

Ethical decisions are often more complex than we realize Do we have ethical obligations to corporations? When I first posed this question (to read earlier columns on this topic, see Ethics Matters archives ,) I never expected the dialogue to…

Corporate intranets don’t usually have the “make a profit” requirements of most e-commerce sites, so intranet developers — paradoxically — can give Internet developers some lessons in making a site more usable and popular. This is the conclusion I draw…