Leading by listening first
Before you judge history or your staff, review the facts and the process “THOSE WHO DON’T remember the past are condemned to repeat the 11th grade.” — James W. Loewen REVISIONISM IS the art of waiting until everyone who knows…
Need capacity?
Pushing monster storage boxes may be a bad idea in the dour economic climate FOR SOME TIME, NAS products have been knocked for their inability to scale and for being difficult to manage. Well, that is changing: Startups Spinnaker Networks…
Plotting the grid
The University of Pennsylvania’s National Digital Mammogram Archive taps emerging open grid standards to exponentially boost breast cancer treatment Hospitals and medical facilities everywhere continue to struggle to treat victims of breast cancer, hindered by the difficulty and expense of…
Sailing online
Several ocean carriers joined forces to create the GTN portal Introducing new technology to a traditional industry can be a painfully slow process after all, as the saying goes, it takes a long time to turn a large ship. But…
Apple on the move
Senior execs discuss technology innovation at Apple APPLE’S SENIOR VICE President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Avie Tevanian, and Director of Mac OS Product Marketing Ken Bereskin met with InfoWorld Test Center Director…
IT measures and metrics
Develop a dashboard to elevate IT’s importance Focusing and coordinating business technology is increasingly important, with significant sums being spent on technology and the business risks associated with the failure of that technology growing. At New York-based Reed Elsevier, a…
Oracle releases TopLink upgrade, road map
Oracle9i Application Server TopLink 9.0.3 supports connection pooling and features performance optimizations October 15, 2002 — Oracle has released an updated version of the TopLink Java development tool it recently acquired from WebGain, along with a road map pledging continued…
Java Product News (updated October 18, 2002)
PolarLake introduces enterprise integration solution; Wily Technology extends Introscope to WebSphere; and more PolarLake introduces enterprise integration solution October 18 — PolarLake has released PolarLake Database Integrator, a tool for integrating XML with relational databases. The integrator features a runtime…
Best tools for mobile application development
A comparative review of four J2ME IDEs A new technology’s successful adoption often depends on its development tools. Good tools help new developers more easily get started and make experienced developers more productive. For instance, the success of Microsoft’s programming…
Java Product News (updated October 25, 2002)
Flashline enhances CMEE; Isocra livens J2EE application performance; and more Flashline enhances CMEE October 25 — Flashline has updated its CMEE product to version 3.2. Based on J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition), the software asset reuse solution supports asset-centric…
