Talking the BizTalk
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002 makes b-to-b EAI work, but with considerable effort IN THE OLD days of document management, quick-fingered clerks would clean up and reformat data as they entered it, sifting out invalid documents and keeping information moving through…
Your flicks for free
Readers recommend a downloadable multimedia program to convert your .mov files to .avi I DEVOTED MY column a few weeks ago to AutoProducer, a program that automatically edits your video clips into a slick-looking music video (see ” Muvee makes…
Rx for health records
SHARAD PATEL WAS dragged into health care technology unwillingly back in 1991, when his attorney asked him to visit a clinic around Christmastime to help a friend with computer problems. “I said, ‘I don’t do user fixes,’ ” recalls Patel,…
Downscaling for better projects
THE END OF the golden age of massive IT projects came suddenly for a food service provider about to embark upon a major ERP implementation. “We got approval from the board and we were closing in on it,” says the…
Reliable messaging
Kenamea Application Network delivers a next-generation communications layer atop HTTP THE HTTP PROTOCOL is both the greatest strength and the Achilles’ heel of the Web services movement. Yes, it’s wonderful that SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages can go everywhere…
A censorship test case
New York accuses Network Associates of trying to limit free speech in its McAfee clickwrap agreement COULD FREEDOM of speech and freedom of the press be lost to the fine print? Don’t dismiss the possibility. We may have already lost…
Closing SNMP gaps
Alert sends companies scurrying to check SNMP traffic and the long list of affected devices ON FEB. 12, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) went public with a series of vulnerabilities in SNMP Version 1, the widely used standard for…
The price of security
Wireless technology creates a conundrum: Give me liberty or give me privacy, but I can’t have both DOES WIRELESS make America more secure and a little less free? The answer is probably yes to both. But whether that worries you…
Dissatisfied customers
CTOs can rescue their companies from shortsighted business strategies “If you go into a situation with nothing planned, sometimes wonderful stuff happens.” — Jerry Garcia BAD NEWS for BIG BIG/GAS (Business Is Great/Government and Academics are Stupid) is a ridiculous…
Comergent chases channel efficiency
CEO Jean Kovacs and CTO Bill York talk about partner relationship management AS ENTERPRISES SEEK to build efficient channels, it seems business intelligence, PRM (partner relationship management), application integration, and Web services are headed for a collision course. Redwood City,…
