Digital Harbor deals in live apps
See correction below DIGITAL HARBOR IS taking the wraps off a development and deployment platform that leverages “smart client” technology to help build applications composed of bits and pieces of disparate back-end sources. Based on J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition)…
Mindreef diagnoses Web services
MINDREEF IS ROLLING out its first product this week, which the company claims is the first diagnostics system for Web services designed to head off problems that arise when developing in the nascent programming model. Mindreef SOAPscope Personal 1.0 gives…
Sybase, SuSE link on Linux
SYBASE AND SUSE Linux on Tuesday announced a technology partnership in which the two companies intend to synchronize product planning and development to provide joint customers with a consistent support base. Sybase’s Adapter Server Enterprise database will support the upcoming…
Debugging SOAP
Personal sniffer watches, simplifies, and interacts with traffic Andrew Schulman, the author of Undocumented Windows, used to lecture on the many mysteries he had unraveled deep in the bowels of the VxD (virtual device driver) realm. “How do I know…
Family quits jobs, pays the mortgage with Web site
Finding a niche and a strategy pays off If you can’t raise venture capital to “get big fast,” as Amazon.com did, your best strategy to build a profitable Web site is to pick a niche and become the best source…
Intel raises DP server ante
Fresh workstation and server products unleash power trapped in dual-processor systems THE STEADY CLIMB of clock speeds in 32-bit processors from Intel and AMD has not translated into markedly improved application performance. A multigigahertz processor runs at its rated speed…
Playing IBM’s game
Competitors rally against Big Blue’s dominance on the services court IBM HAS LED THE FIELD in IT services since the punch-card era, and considering Big Blue’s plan to invest $10 billion in on-demand utility offerings, on top of its recent…
Crush creepy crawlers
Readers find ‘parasiteware’ is getting out of hand and begs for a strong dose of bug spray MANY OF MY readers like surprises — but they hate being surprised by “parasites.” These programs quietly install themselves into Windows when you…
Interplanetary tango
In today’s astronomy headlines, Jupiter is now moving into orbit around IBM THE WEB SERVICES Interoperability Organization (WS-I)agenda is embodied in Jupiter, Microsoft’s latest amorphous code-named initiative. Jupiter is not a product, a bundle of products, or a set of…
Flexibility and control
Decisions, decisions: Web services come of age, offering apps that bridge the ‘build or buy’ gap ONE OF THE perennial questions for IT executives considering enterprise systems is “build, buy, or outsource?” The question has become so common that it’s…
