Polishing the Apple for the enterprise
The darling of the ‘alpha geeks’ may also spark corporate interest APPLE COMPUTER — longtime darling of the education, graphics, and desktop publishing markets — is pushing the enterprise envelope. A powerful server, a commitment to open standards, and killer…
The ubiquitous CTO
As technology, financial, and business processes intertwine, demand for the CTO’s expertise will grow I SPOKE RECENTLY about technology leadership at the National Association of Convenience Stores annual convention in Orlando, Fla. Technology leadership is a tough issue in the…
Leading by listening first
Before you judge history or your staff, review the facts and the process “THOSE WHO DON’T remember the past are condemned to repeat the 11th grade.” — James W. Loewen REVISIONISM IS the art of waiting until everyone who knows…
Need capacity?
Pushing monster storage boxes may be a bad idea in the dour economic climate FOR SOME TIME, NAS products have been knocked for their inability to scale and for being difficult to manage. Well, that is changing: Startups Spinnaker Networks…
Plotting the grid
The University of Pennsylvania’s National Digital Mammogram Archive taps emerging open grid standards to exponentially boost breast cancer treatment Hospitals and medical facilities everywhere continue to struggle to treat victims of breast cancer, hindered by the difficulty and expense of…
Sailing online
Several ocean carriers joined forces to create the GTN portal Introducing new technology to a traditional industry can be a painfully slow process after all, as the saying goes, it takes a long time to turn a large ship. But…
Apple on the move
Senior execs discuss technology innovation at Apple APPLE’S SENIOR VICE President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Avie Tevanian, and Director of Mac OS Product Marketing Ken Bereskin met with InfoWorld Test Center Director…
IT measures and metrics
Develop a dashboard to elevate IT’s importance Focusing and coordinating business technology is increasingly important, with significant sums being spent on technology and the business risks associated with the failure of that technology growing. At New York-based Reed Elsevier, a…
Oracle releases TopLink upgrade, road map
Oracle9i Application Server TopLink 9.0.3 supports connection pooling and features performance optimizations October 15, 2002 — Oracle has released an updated version of the TopLink Java development tool it recently acquired from WebGain, along with a road map pledging continued…
Java Product News (updated October 18, 2002)
PolarLake introduces enterprise integration solution; Wily Technology extends Introscope to WebSphere; and more PolarLake introduces enterprise integration solution October 18 — PolarLake has released PolarLake Database Integrator, a tool for integrating XML with relational databases. The integrator features a runtime…
