Deal with meetings
Domino 6, Sametime 3 bolster collaboration orchestration GETTING PEOPLE TO WORK together is an effort under many circumstances; even the best of team players usually has a personal agenda. Anything that makes it easier to tap into a company’s knowledge…
The e-mail scandal
Your messages have a 1-in-8 chance of never reaching your intended recipients’ inboxes A NEW STUDY shows that 11.7 percent of messages that were requested by an e-mail subscriber never reached the recipient’s inbox. Six percent were incorrectly routed to…
Buggy whips for India
Like the automotive age, the open-source age is inevitable, but Microsoft won’t give up easily OCCASIONALLY, I hear people say about open source, “Hey, it’s just software.” But from a market perspective, open source is far more than software —…
The Big Bang
Microsoft may have blurred the messaging, but its brilliant idea processor strikes the right Note WATCHING BILL GATES’ annual Comdex keynote is an eerie exercise. For starters, it takes place at the MGM Grand amphitheater, the site of heavyweight bouts…
Dancing with peer -to-peer
As p-to-p begins to play new roles, enterprises will need to learn new steps Peer-to-peer is growing up. In addition to meeting demands for better collaboration, more flexible file sharing, and optimal use of existing resources, peer-to-peer technology is finding…
CTO with heart
Community Health Network IT executive leads the launch of an all-digital specialty hospital RICK COPPLE’S WORK represents the merger of two trends: specialty medicine and the promise of the paperless office. The CTO has been working toward the opening of…
IBM bets on ‘smart’ computing
Senior VP Steve Mills discusses IBM’s grid and autonomic computing initiatives STEVE MILLS, IBM’S senior vice president in charge of the company’s software solutions group, is responsible for shaping IBM’s overall software strategy. Mills met with InfoWorld Test Center Director…
Got resources?
Two strategies for loading resource bundles and property files from Java code November 22, 2002 What is the difference between Class.getResource() and ClassLoader.getResource() ? Because Class.getResource() eventually delegates to ClassLoader.getResource(), the two methods are indeed very similar. However, the first…
Java Product News (updated November 22, 2002)
Trigent Software launches J2EE training courses; Flashline integrates CMEE with WebSphere; and more Trigent Software launches J2EE training courses November 22 — Trigent Software will offer three- to five-day training sessions on Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) development and…
Stretching middleware
Oracle9iAS is a viable solution for enterprise-wide mid-tier integration Integrating dissimilar and far-flung enterprise assets can be daunting. But IT executives can successfully address the issue by selecting mid-tier technologies that can act as scalable hubs. With its latest application…
