IT ROI questions from the CFO to the CTO
Required investment How much investment — including capital expense, planning and deployment, application development, and ongoing management and support — will the project require? Financial benefits What are the expected financial benefits of the project, measured according to established financial…
Rethinking ROI
The economy headed south and the board tightened the purse strings, compelling CTOs to think about ROI from the CFO’s viewpoint. And that’s not likely to change even as the economy improves SCOTT PREBLE HAS A name for when he…
The role of directories in Web services
CTO Hal Stern outlines the direction of Sun’s next generation of software infrastructure AS CTO OF the Sun ONE (Open Net Environment) software products group, Hal Stern tries to be a unifying force within Sun. Stern, who has been quietly…
Java Product News (updated June 7, 2002)
PointBase adds JDBC 3.0 compatibility to RDBMS suite; TogetherSoft voices support for Sun ONE; and more PointBase adds JDBC 3.0 compatibility to RDBMS suite June 7 — PointBase has updated its relational database management systems (RDBMS). PointBase Server 4.3 and…
Study guide: Achieve strong performance with threads, Part 2
Brush up on Java terms, learn tips and cautions, review homework assignments, and read Jeff’s answers to student questions Glossary of terms critical code sections Code sequences that let multiple threads manipulate class and instance field variables and other shared…
Design patterns make for better J2EE apps
Standardize the J2EE architectural layer using the Java community’s accumulated knowledge Since its inception, J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) has simplified enterprise application construction in Java. As J2EE becomes more broadly adopted, however, developers are realizing the need for…
Java 101: Understanding Java threads, Part 2: Thread synchronization
Use synchronization to serialize thread access to critical code sections Last month I showed you how easy it is to create thread objects, start threads that associate with those objects by calling Thread‘s start() method, and perform simple thread operations…
FileNet plans portal, content management integration
ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT (CM) vendor FileNet this week revealed a development strategy to integrate its CM offerings with portal products from companies such as BEA Systems and IBM. Costa Mesa, Calif.-based FileNet said the move is designed to offer enterprises…
Intelliseek boosts search with Coreintellect buy
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE VENDOR Intelliseek on Tuesday acquired Coreintellect, a Dallas-based provider of competitive intelligence technology and enterprise search products. Intelliseek officials in Cincinnati said the company plans to use Coreintellect technology to expand into the areas of competitive intelligence and…
Microsoft’s vision of .Net Framework
Distinguished Engineer Anders Hejlsberg discusses .Net’s evolution AS MICROSOFT’S DISTINGUISHED engineer of its developer division, Anders Hejlsberg has been a central figure in the development of Microsoft’s .Net Framework. The author of Borland’s Delphi and .Net’s new C# language, Hejlsberg…
