Java’s secret weapon
Revisiting the Jini vision A recent New York Times article (“Unfazed by Defectors, Sun’s Chief Charts Next Era,” John Markoff (May 3, 2002)) asked Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy about the company’s plans to increase its software offerings’…
Java Product News (updated August 16, 2002)
TogetherSoft acquires WebGain Studio; Borland adds unit-testing tool to IDE; Metrowerks opens new development center; and more TogetherSoft acquires WebGain Studio August 16 — TogetherSoft will assume full support of all WebGain Studio products, which include the VisualCafé Java IDE,…
Java Tip 130: Do you know your data size?
Don’t pay the price for hidden class fields Recently, I helped design a Java server application that resembled an in-memory database. That is, we biased the design toward caching tons of data in memory to provide super-fast query performance. Once…
Mapping Microsoft’s mobile mission
Juha Christensen, Microsoft’s mobility group VP, discusses Wi-Fi, peer-to-peer KNOWLEDGE IS POWER — so long as it’s accessible. Mobile computing promises to arm companies with the tools they need to keep communication flowing, regardless of physical barriers. Among companies driving…
MIR3 inks notification partnership with APIC
INTELLIGENT NOTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY provider MIR3 this week announced a strategic relationship with corporate performance improvement vendor Anderson Performance Improvement Company (APIC) to roll out mobile notification services to APIC clients. MIR3’s two-way intelligent notification platform, dubbed INlogic, is a protocol,…
Interview: Sun shines over Linux
CEO Scott McNealy sounds battle cry for open computing HE’S BACK. TIMES are tough and Sun has missed the boat on several key industry trends. But Scott McNealy is clearly back in charge of strategic decisions as the CEO of…
SAS embraces ETL
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE VENDOR SAS on Tuesday announced it is providing near real-time data warehousing and new integration capabilities through adaptors to IBM Websphere MQ, Microsoft MQ, and Tibco message queuing products. The adaptors are designed to deliver SAS data collection,…
Epicentric takes portals to the next level
Co-founders Ed Anuff and Oliver Muoto explain the concept of enterprise portal management EPICENTRIC IS A leading provider of corporate portals and one of the first companies to advocate the adoption of Web services. Today, corporate portals are evolving into…
See which sites are most related to your site
Search engine add-on provides interesting data Have you ever wondered which Web sites are most similar to your own site? Now you can see a graphical diagram of your site surrounded by these others, thanks to a new online graphing…
Interview: Jeff Raikes outlines the future role Of Office
Microsoft’s group vice president discusses .Net strategies, SharePoint Team Services YOU CAN CALL Jeff Raikes, Microsoft’s group vice president of Productivity and Business Services, just about anything you want, just don’t call him a desktop guy. Raikes is charged with…
