The IT rust belt
For a prognosis on the future of programming, take a look at what happened in manufacturing “Mother, mother ocean / After all the years I’ve found / My occupational hazard being / My occupation’s just not around.” — Jimmy Buffet,…
Looking into Lindows
Once hyped as a Windows-compatible Linux OS, Lindows pales in the light of Mandrake LINDOWS IS GETTING a lot of buzz recently. For those who haven’t heard, LindowsOS is a Linux-based operating system focused on the consumer desktop market. Lindows…
Tears of rage
Mourning the loss of a young innovator who knew that collaboration spurs great achievement “I READ THE news today, oh boy.” For most of us, John Lennon’s “A Day in the Life” anchors the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper album with its…
Fiorano takes component approach to EAI
CEO and CTO Atul Saini explains how Tifosi cuts the cost of integration and building collaborative apps FIORANO SOFTWARE IS a startup company that is leveraging a component architecture to compete against established players in the EAI (enterprise application integration)…
Java Product News (updated July 12, 2002)
Companies partner to enable Web services interaction; Zion launches IM products; and more Companies partner to enable Web services interaction July 12 — BEA Systems, Intalio, SAP AG, and Sun Microsystems have published an XML-based Web services interface that bridges…
Remote-control Java
Use VNCj to export your Java user interface to VNC viewers Now that Windows XP supports desktop remote control over the network, we see a cycle close, a cycle that has been closing in on us for a long time.…
Serve clients’ specific protocol requirements with Brazil, Part 6
Plug Jini, BeanShell, and JAXM into Brazil Brazil is a third-generation HTTP server that provides an extensible, understandable framework for building small, application-specific HTTP servers. In Parts 1 through 5 of this series, I discussed how to use Brazil technology…
As I was saying, it’s the system
Corporate scandals involve more than just personal misbehavior Imagine, if you will, a bank, in which the managers decide that maintaining a vault is costly and inconvenient. After all, it takes up space and someone has to lock it every…
NetLedger names new president, COO
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER NETLEDGER, maker of the Oracle Small Business Suite, has signed on former Oracle executive Zach Nelson to fill its newly created COO position, the company said Tuesday. Nelson also becomes the company’s president, a title formerly held by…
PeopleSoft focuses on business process integration
CTO Rick Bergquist discusses the impact of Web services in moving information in real time AS CTO OF PeopleSoft, Rick Bergquist has seen a lot of technology come and go. But with the advent of Web services, Bergquist sees a…
