Don’t lean too heavily on the ‘code of ethics’
Written ethical rules may have unintended consequences I’m not a big fan of “codes of ethics.” This isn’t because I’m an unethical boob who wants people to lie and steal. Rather, I think that codes of ethics don’t necessarily result…
AlachiSoft ships object-to-relational mapping tool
NEWARK, CALIF.-BASED ALACHISOFT on Wednesday plans to release the first version of TierDeveloper, which the company calls an object-to-relational mapping and code-generation tool. The tool enables developers to design and deploy middle tier data objects for enterprise applications. According to…
Macromedia to back .Net
ANTICIPATING THE WEDNESDAY launch of Microsoft’s Visual Studio.Net tool suite, Macromedia on Monday said it will support the .Net platform and the .Net Framework in a forthcoming iteration of Dreamweaver UltraDev development tool. By complementing Visual Studio.Net, San Francisco-based Macromedia’s…
Experian offers data quality services
EXPERIAN ON MONDAY plans to unveil a data quality consulting service called DataView, which will assess factors such as relationships between data sets and help customers make accurate decisions based on their data. “Anybody that has customer data … and…
The Langa Letter: 145,000 subscribers, 19,000 paid
Tips for converting free subscribers to loyal customers One of the success stories in the category of “one man working at home, making money on the Internet” is the Langa Letter, a twice-weekly, high-tech newsletter produced by Fred Langa. After…
Salesforce.com ramps up
Not content with just Web-based CRM and SFA (sales-force automation) applications, Salesforce.com within five years hopes to offer the full gamut of office applications via a hosted paradigm, including ERP systems. The company this month is detailing the availability of…
Customer-centric CRM
The prospect of implementing a CRM solution evokes in the mind of many CTOs a disturbing vision of prolonged struggles to assimilate back-office applications, along with the uncomfortable feeling that, despite the efforts, achieving the ultimate objectives of better customer…
Infravio exec explains why run-time management of Web services is the next big challenge for IT
See correction below INFRAVIO IS A startup company that has identified Web services management infrastructure as a major new opportunity. To address that requirement, the company at Demo 2002 this week rolled out a new platform for Web services life…
A towering decision
For Tower Records, the question was whether to develop or outsource a better search engine WHEN KEVIN ERTELL went looking for a better navigation and search tool for TowerRecords.com, he faced a question familiar to every chief technologist: Build or…
Networking CTOs lead the way
Increasing numbers of corporate CTOs are trading in dreams of building the perfect, internal NOC (network operations center) for more pragmatic outsourcing plans. Devoting precious funds into advanced networking capabilities has become a luxury many enterprise officials feel they can…
