InfoWorld articles from March 2002

InfoWorld archives from March 2002

Talking the BizTalk - Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002 makes b-to-b EAI work , but with considerable effort.(Evaluation)
March 4, 2002... 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 a complicated workflow. These days, the exchange of...

Downscaling for better projects - The economic downturn might be the best thing that ever happened to project management.
March 4, 2002... 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 company's IT executive. "And...

Rx for health records - ChartOne's CTO helps the health care industry chart the management of patient records.(Sharad Patel)
March 4, 2002... 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, who...

Quick change.
March 4, 2002... From September 2001 to mid-February 2002, 32 respondents to InfoWorld's CTO Network poll took immediate actions to shore up internal security policies and procedures. Copyright (c) 2002 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.

Where are they now? Since the 2000 Ones to Watch were named, many dot- coms imploded and the economy soured. How have these technological talents fared?
March 4, 2002... Sergey Brin and Larry Page Known for then: Search engine Known for now: 2002 Technology Innovators Google co-founders Brin and Page, now president of technology and president of products, respectively, were included in the 2000...

Ones to Watch 2002 - These up-and-comers are developing the technologies that will matter most in the coming months.
March 4, 2002... Adam Bosworth, BEA Systems: Asynchronous Web services Building on his experience as chief architect of XML at Microsoft, co- founder of CrossGain, and now vice president of engineering at BEA Systems, Bosworth is setting up a framework to...

Hall of fame 2002 - Several industry icons join InfoWorld's Innovators Hall of Fame.
March 4, 2002... Tim Bray and the XML Working Group: XML XML offers a way for programs to squeeze real meaning out of Web pages through metadata -- now it has expanded all over the Internet and become a core standard for doing business online. But for those...

Top ten technology innovators.
March 4, 2002... Peruse the Top Ten Technology Innovators profiled this year, and it becomes clear that necessity is not only the mother of invention, but of innovation as well. We were struck by these innovators' accounts of initial contributions that opened...

Top ten technology innovators: John Crawford - Intel's processor pioneer strikes gold again.
March 4, 2002... JOHN CRAWFORD always had a hunch he would work on the cutting edge of technology. But the path that led him to the position of lead engineer for Intel's next generation 64-bit Itanium processor took its share of unexpected turns along the way....

Top ten technology innovators: Mike Lazaridis - BlackBerry genius shares simple secret of success: Listen to your customers.
March 4, 2002... RARELY DO YOU run across a CEO who can eloquently articulate both the benefits of Sun's J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) and the four partial differential equations developed by 19th-century physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Mike Lazaridis is one who...

Top ten technology innovators: Mark Lucovsky - The brains behind HailStorm sees Web services as a hub for simplifying busy lives.
March 4, 2002... HAILSTORM'S GENESIS was not so much a lightning bolt of inspiration, as it was like a soft Seattle rain rolling together ideas that were brewing independently within two different teams at Microsoft. These teams faced the task of making the...

Top ten technology innovators: Andy Mendelsohn - Breaking new ground is old hat for Oracle's long-time visionary database developer.
March 4, 2002... DATABASE TECHNOLOGISTS once proudly held the notion that the monolithic, centralized platform was good; widely distributed, decentralized databases were bad. While Oracle has put itself at the sharp end of the stick when it comes to beating off...

Top ten technology innovators: Dave Moellenhoff - ASP founder predicts the end of software as we know it.
March 4, 2002... AFTER BURSTING OUT OF THE GATE two years ago amid lofty expectations, ASPs have endured user apathy and a battered existence. But behind CTO Dave Moellenhoff, Salesforce.com is helping to get ASPs back on track and prove that outsourcing and...

Top ten technology innovators: Clifford Neuman - For Kerberos co- author, security hasn't lost its allure.
March 4, 2002... IN A JOURNEY that began 20 years ago when he was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and led to his current job researching authentication at the University of Southern California, Clifford Neuman has always approached...

Top ten technology innovators: Ray Ozzie - Notes inventor envisions peer-to-peer technology supplanting e-mail.
March 4, 2002... STARTING FOUR YEARS ago with only a whiteboard, a card table, and a firm resolve to address a thorny business problem, Notes inventor Ray Ozzie and a small, hand-picked development team crafted the first decentralized collaborative product...

Top ten technology innovators: Larry Page and Sergey Brin - The Internet's most famous pair of Ph.D.s are still striving to make data more accessible.
March 4, 2002... AS THE INTERNET was just beginning to sprout wings in the mid-1990s, two Ph.D. candidates in computer science at Stanford began exploring the relationships between pages on the Internet. What started out as an unassuming research project...

Top ten technology innovators: Vivek Ranadive - Real-time computing pioneer is taking his message to the enterprise masses.
March 4, 2002... TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadive, renowned real-time computing pioneer, boasts an early professional life straight out of a Hollywood movie script: A 17-year-old prodigy comes to America with $50 in his pockets. After working his way through...

Top ten technology innovators: Dave Winer - SOAP co-author strives for simplicity and drives decentralization.
March 4, 2002... DAVE WINER'S COMPANY, UserLand Software, released Radio UserLand 8.0 in the middle of January. By the end of the month, it had turned in its best sales performance ever. Widely acclaimed, the new version of Radio, a desktop Weblog tool,...

Web services growing pains - Intel, Microsoft, BEA look to improve performance and tools for Web services networks.
March 4, 2002... SEEKING TO ADVANCE Web services technology beyond base-level interoperability, vendors this week outlined plans to fill a number of holes in Web services capabilities. Issues that remain include transactional integrity, SLAs (service-level...

Microsoft takes on CRM market - Offering will work with Office and systems from Great Plains Software.(Microsoft Customer Relationship Management)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... MICROSOFT MADE A stronger commitment to the burgeoning CRM market this week, while a range of vendors -- from established players such as Siebel Systems to newer Web-based providers such as Salesforce.com and UpShot -- said there is room for...

Preventive medicine - Before choosing an anti-virus solution for end- users, enterprises should take a good look at how the software will be deployed.(Norton Anti-Virus Corporate Edition 7.6, McAfee Total Virus Defense Suite, F-Secure Anti-Virus for Workstations 5.0 and Sophos Anti-Virus)(Evaluation)
March 4, 2002... ONCE THE RESPONSIBILITY of only the most ardent technophiles, anti- virus technology now holds a prominent slot on most enterprises' priority lists. But with so many products on the market, which anti- virus solution should you invest in? ...

OpenReach mixes frame relay and VPN.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 2002... OpenReach this week announced Frame Relay Plus, a suite of products to improve security and reliability of frame-relay systems at business locations by adding IP-based VPNs. The technology allows businesses to install the software on any Intel...

Avaya embraces IP telephony with suite.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 2002... Basking Ridge, N.J.-based Avaya announced this week a voice application suite, MultiVantage, as well as three servers and two media gateways. It also unveiled the next release of its IP Softphone. The servers support distributed IP networking...

Infiniband's debut draws near.
March 4, 2002... THE INDUSTRY-WIDE support for Infiniband was on display this week as a wave of Infiniband component vendors showed their wares at the Intel Developer's Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. The next-generation switched-fabric I/O technology will...

ABOVE THE NOISE: Automated help is on the horizon - IT managers frustrated by the labor costs of routine support systems can take heart.
March 4, 2002... EVERYONE HAS A dream. For most IT managers that dream involves automating the routine tasks associated with their jobs, namely the configuring and provisioning of servers. For an industry that prides itself on automating repetitive tasks,...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Endangered species.
March 4, 2002... AMBER CALLED ME midday, all excited after reading that someone spotted an ivory-billed woodpecker in a Louisiana swamp. "They thought it was extinct 50 years ago," she said. "But now ornithologists uncovered clues that it still may be alive."...

To the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
March 4, 2002... Setting standards MICHAEL VIZARD'S column "Pots, kettles, and black standards" (see Above the Noise, Feb. 18) misrepresents the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WSI), calling it "vendor chicanery." The column characterizes...

FOR THE RECORD: Finding the mutual benefit of IT infrastructure.(Column)
March 4, 2002... Last week I had the privilege to moderate a panel at the Global Ecommerce conference at the United Nations in New York. Even as delegates and private-sector people from around the world showed keen interest in the possibilities of e-commerce...

WINDOW MANAGER: Your flicks for free - Readers recommend a downloadable multimedia program to convert your .mov files to .avi.(Column)
March 4, 2002... 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 movies," Feb. 11). I mentioned in passing that I'd paid 30 bucks to upgrade Apple's...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Learning to learn - Developing new skills takes some time and effort; mastering them can save you even more in the end.
March 4, 2002... "IT'S TOO DIFFICULT! Why can't it just be simple, like I'm used to?" I've been hearing that a lot recently. No, not from the mouths of people struggling to learn Linux. Quite the opposite, actually. You see, my wife is currently taking a...

SECURITY ADVISER/CTO TEST CENTER: Closing SNMP gaps - Alert sends companies scurrying to check SNMP traffic and the long list of affected devices.
March 4, 2002... 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 system management and monitoring. The announcement, based on the findings of a group from the...

STORAGE INSIDER/CTO TEST CENTER: Mixed messages - Microsoft must do a better job of coordinating its NAS and Exchange Server strategies.
March 4, 2002... IT SEEMS MICROSOFT really has it in for NAS (network attached storage). In case you missed it, the buzz in some technical bulletins of late suggests Microsoft only wants you to use Exchange 2000 with block-level storage devices, and that's...

WIRELESS WORLD: The price of security - Wireless technology creates a conundrum: Give me liberty or give me privacy, but I can't have both.
March 4, 2002... DOES WIRELESS make America more secure and a little less free? The answer is probably yes to both. But whether that worries you or encourages you to feel safer depends on which part of the previous question you think is more important. ...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES/CTO TEST CENTER: Turn, turn, turn - Cost-cutting has collaborative supply chains streamlining asset management to maximize working capital.(Column)
March 4, 2002... THESE DAYS, companies trying to maximize shareholder returns must do more than cut costs. The impact of sell-side efficiency and collaborative supply-chain integration is just as important -- if not more so -- to the bottom line. ...

CTO CONNECTION: Make those bold moves - CTOs should be company visionaries, moving forward on new technology instead of reacting to it.(Column)
March 4, 2002... LAST WEEK, I wrote about making unpopular decisions and taking risks to drive a technology vision. In difficult times, leadership is on the minds of many CTOs. I recently attended a company-sponsored leadership program where discussion...

SURVIVAL GUIDE: Dissatisfied customers - CTOs can rescue their companies from shortsighted business strategies.(Column)
March 4, 2002... BAD NEWS for BIG/GAS. BIG/GAS (Business Is Great/Government and Academics are Stupid) is a ridiculous but popular theory of how things work. The bad news: According to the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index...

THE GRIPE LINE: A censorship test case - New York accuses Network Associates of trying to limit free speech in its McAfee clickwrap agreement.
March 4, 2002... 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 more than any of us realize. In early February, New York Attorney General Elliott Spitzer announced a...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Deja vu all over again - BEA moves ahead to take the lead in the Java pack, closing in on a familiar rival using a familiar team.
March 4, 2002... IT FELT LIKE we'd been this way before. Up on the stage, the CEO stepped off his motorcycle and announced a sexy new tool to revolutionize the development path to Web services. Then a tall, handsome guy on a scooter rallied the troops around...

Reliable messaging - Kenamea Application Network delivers a next- generation communications layer atop HTTP.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
March 4, 2002... 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 they are needed, but the HTTP, SOAP, WSDL (Web...

WebGain unveils Studio 7 suite - Toolset one of many wares at BEA eWorld conference addressing Web services.(Product Announcement)
March 4, 2002... WEBGAIN PREVIEWED its revamped developer tool suite, WebGain Studio 7, this week at BEA's eWorld conference in San Diego. The announcement was one of many from companies at the show aligning with BEA, particularly on Web services. WebGain,...

Bells may get FCC boost - Proposal aims to free telcos fromopening networks to rivals, while focusing on DSL rollout.
March 4, 2002... THE FEDERAL Communications Commission has signaled that it may begin treating broadband services, namely DSL, more like information services and less like dial tone. That decision, although tentative, would be a coup for local phone...

WorldCom, Compaq join to advance Web hosting.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Compaq and WorldCom announced this week that they have joined to co- market Web hosting and Internet collocation services under the WorldCom brand using Compaq hardware and software. WorldCom and Compaq will jointly sell and market a...

American Express inksdeal with IBM.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... American Express has signed a $4 billion, seven-year contract with IBM's global services unit, which will assume management of nearly all of American Express' IT operations. IBM will take over provisioning and management of American Express'...

Intel tool to clock Webbased applications.(VTune Enterprise Analyzer)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Intel this week detailed a tool it plans to release for testing the performance of Web applications on its chips. At the Intel Developer Forum, the company previewed the tool called the VTune Enterprise Analyzer, which it plans to release this...

Web-services firms align - Interland to tap Trellix publishing platform toexpand services suite.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... WITH AN EYE on providing Web services tools to customers, Interland is adding customized application integration to its Web-hosting services portfolio by joining forces with Web site publishing company Trellix. Interland announced this week...

CRM seeks Web exposure - Siebel leads charge as vendors address integration complexity.
March 11, 2002... IN AN ATTEMPT to tackle application integration complexity, enterprise CRM vendors are working to build Web services capabilities into upcoming releases and to establish a set of transactional standards. Although CRM applications are still...

Documentum extends content management.(Documentum Digital Asset Management Edition and Documentum Media Services)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 11, 2002... Documentum this week introduced two digital asset management products at the Association for Information and Image Management 2002 Conference in San Francisco. The Documentum Media Services product allows enterprises to manage multimedia, Web...

Noetix opens access to Oracle applications.(Noetix Enterprise Technology Suite)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 11, 2002... A new suite from Noetix will enable Oracle applications customers to access data with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, Noetix announced this week. The Noetix Enterprise Technology Suite is designed to simplify access to Oracle apps by...

Plumtree fortifies Corporate Portal.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 11, 2002... Plumtree Software this week rolled out additions to its portal platform designed to empower business users and boost collaboration within the portal environment. The Plumtree Studio Server is an application development engine that allows portal...

Affordable, capable e-mail - MDaemon Pro 5.0.4 adds LDAP to its rich roster of capabilities.(Evaluation)
March 11, 2002... MANY E-MAIL SERVERS have ballooned into expensive, high-maintenance, resource-hungry collaboration platforms. Although there is definitely a need for such do-it-all solutions, sometimes all a company requires is a lightweight, highly...

Corporate venturing on the edge - Enterprise CTOs are using corporate funding for R&D, to spin off technology, and to incubate a competitive edge.
March 11, 2002... WITH LITTLE SURPRISE, large enterprise investment in new technologies and IT startups took a hit in the past year. Some innovations -- wireless for instance -- will get funding even with corporations and venture capitalists putting the brakes...

The mobile model - MagnetPoint CTO sees the Web services concept driving the future of mobile computing.(Company Operations)
March 11, 2002... ONE OF THE big challenges an enterprise faces is extending its existing applications to mobile devices. Fortunately, with the emergence of Web services and companies such as MagnetPoint -- which has signed deals with General Motors Onstar...

Big plans to secure the future.(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... A poll of 32 members of InfoWorld's CTO Network reveals respondents are planning multiple changes to internal security policies and procedures in 2002. Copyright (c) 2002 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.

Symbol gets the nod - Symbol Technologies' Compact Flash card outperforms its Linksys counterpart, but neither works to perfection.
March 11, 2002... POCKET PCS MUST have network access to be of value to the enterprise. Whether this access should come via standard wired connections, wireless broadband, or an 802.11 WLAN (Wireless LAN) depends on how the organization uses Pocket PCs. An...

The "W" zone - As wireless moves into the mainstream, and begins converging with Web services, enterprises must decide which technologies to back.
March 11, 2002... CALL IT THE "W" zone. That's the point where Web services and wireless technologies converge. As the world moves toward a less hard-wired definition of Web services, our view of the workplace is also changing. Perhaps Microsoft describes...

Fast-tracking WLAN security - 802.11 weak spots have the IEEE revving up security standard time lines.
March 11, 2002... LIKE AN ALARM bell sounding in the firehouse, the WLAN (wireless LAN) industry scrambled when the Fluher, Mantin, and Shamir paper "Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4" revealed how easy it was to crack IEEE 802.11 wireless...

The trouble with 802.1x - Weaknesses in the Wi-Fi security protocol present hard choices.
March 11, 2002... SECURING A WIRELESS network forces IT managers to face a set of challenges quite different from what they're used to with wired networks. The mere fact that built-in wireless security standards such as WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) have come...

Database titans embrace XML - CM servers tighten database links in quest for improved data management.(Product Announcement)
March 11, 2002... DATABASE HEAVYWEIGHTS IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft are looking to usher in the next wave of data management with support for XML and, in the case of IBM and Microsoft, by offering new CM (content management) servers that run on their databases....

Web services makes BI inroads - Ascential, Business Objects announce Web services support to ease integration.
March 11, 2002... BI (BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE) vendors Ascential Software and Business Objects are looking at Web services as a means to ease integration and to help customers make BI data more accessible. Ascential Software this week announced support for Web...

Vignette ties V6 to Web services agenda - Upgrade sees Vignette join Interwoven and divine in push to expose CM processes.(Product Announcement)
March 11, 2002... VIGNETTE HAS BOLSTERED its V6 CM (content management) system with support for Web services standards in a move aimed at slashing the cost and complexity of content sharing. The company announced this week it will arm V6 with support for...

Secure extranets arrive - A new breed of appliances offers virtual, reliable network elements.
March 11, 2002... AS IMPORTANT AS VPNs (virtual private networks) are, they aren't the ideal solution for connecting two business partners. Enter a new breed of startups that is developing appliances that let businesses offer secure access to specific...

Airports ready for biometrics.
March 11, 2002... U.S. AIRPORTS FACING intense pressure to revamp security checkpoints and verify passenger identity are considering biometrics-related solutions to help safeguard travelers. Last week, Chyrsalis-ITS and AiT unveiled a partnership to create a...

Slender and silent - Sony's StorStation Lib-162 taps AIT tape technology to deliver high capacity and quiet performance in an incredibly thin box.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
March 11, 2002... IT MANAGERS OF small datacenters often grapple with the question of which backup technology to adopt. At the heart of this conundrum are two conflicting concerns: locking their companies into a technology that has no room to grow or wasting...

Narrowing the tunnel - Flatrock's Instant Extranet goes beyond VPNs to provide secure, Internet-based access to specific applications.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
March 11, 2002... Flatrock's instant extranet is a unique hardware/software solution that lets IT staff implement secure access to applications and data via the Internet without the added risk of enabling remote network access. Instant Extranet is similar to a...

ABOVE THE NOISE: Steering your platform on wheels - With driver information systems, the wireless network hits the road and never looks back.
March 11, 2002... THE EDGE OF the enterprise became a blur ever since people starting taking work from the office to do on their home systems. But what little distinction there is between the enterprise and other computing environments is about to be obliterated...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: What's in a name?(Humor)(Column)
March 11, 2002... I HEADED OUT all by my lonesome to Salt Lake City this past weekend to see if I couldn't snowboard like those Olympians. No such luck, sorry to admit. But when I got back, Amber had a surprise waiting for me: a puppy. "He's an Airedale, born...

To the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
March 11, 2002... Portal lock MICHAEL VIZARD'S ARTICLE on portals is very good (see Above the Noise, Feb. 25). We have been going through this battle ourselves, and have been very leery of the things he speaks of. It would have been helpful if he had...

WINDOW MANAGER: Your virtual network - A freeware program lets you see the workings of a PC, Mac, Linux, or Solaris box from wherever.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 11, 2002... I SAID A few weeks ago that I was looking for free or inexpensive shareware programs that don't just make it possible for you to perform a task but actually do the task for you (see "Shareware for all," Feb. 18). Such products might be called...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Some games aren't fun - The DMCA arms software companies with even greater control over how their products are used.(Column)
March 11, 2002... A TUG-OF-WAR is in progress between users of proprietary software and the software companies. If you cannot control the software you use, control of your business is at risk. Recent events demonstrate how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act...

SECURITY ADVISER/CTO TEST CENTER: The view from RSA - Consolidation, integration, automation, and vulnerability assessment solutions lead the way.(Product Announcement)
March 11, 2002... I SPENT THE week of Feb. 18 scoping out the RSA conference in San Jose, Calif., looking for new and interesting developments and trends in the security world, and I didn't come away disappointed. Integration was a key theme in announcements...

STORAGE INSIDER/CTO TEST CENTER: Outlook proprietary - A lack of standards clouds the skies over multiplatform storage management.
March 11, 2002... STORAGE MANAGERS cried out for interoperability, and behold, the storage management software platform was born! The concept of storage management heterogeneity is gaining traction in the vendor community courtesy of companies such as EMC,...

WIRELESS WORLD: WLANs, the Army way - The Army recruits an ally in Fortress to overcome the challenge of an 802.11 security hole.
March 11, 2002... WE LIVE IN a democracy, a fact that is evident even in the corporate world which, during the past decade or so, has tried at least to build consensus. But sometimes it is hard not to admire swift, autocratic decisions made from the top. In...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES/CTO TEST CENTER: The heart of the matter - BPM's granular control spells relief for process management, but innovation is still missing the beat.
March 11, 2002... OVER THE PAST few years, BPM (business process management) has become one of the hottest trends in the world of enterprise application integration. And why not? With BPM, companies can take separate pieces of business logic and organize them...

CTO CONNECTION: Greenspan's green light - The Federal Reserve chairman takes special note of technology's role in an economic recovery.
March 11, 2002... DURING THE LATE 1990s, technology people were the superstars of business. The Internet was going to redefine the way everything was done and the tech folks were leading the way. Businesses bid for CTOs and other tech staff as if they were major...

SURVIVAL GUIDE: The moral compass - Corporations aren't moral agents, creating interesting dilemmas for business leaders.
March 11, 2002... ACCORDING TO OUR national philosophy, we have a government "... of the people, by the people, and for the people." People, in other words, precede government, which is why people have inalienable rights. Corporations, in contrast, are...

THE GRIPE LINE: Palming off the SUDS - Users of Palm m500 and m505 are experiencing problems with the handhelds, and product support is lacking.
March 11, 2002... IT IS FRUSTRATING enough when product support doesn't know the answer to your problem -- but it's even worse when you think they aren't telling you the truth. Right now, many readers feel that's what Palm is doing to them. The Gripe Line...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Tale of two Rodneys - The standards battle is being played out over inclusion in the Web Services Interoperability Organization.
March 11, 2002... IT'S RODNEY against Rodney -- "Why Can't We All Just Get Along" versus "I Can't Get No Respect." In one corner are the Rodney King contenders: IBM, Microsoft, BEA, and six other founding members of the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I)...

ARM spurs chip debate - Intel, TI, Motorola embrace ARM and foster application development.
March 11, 2002... FUELED BY INDIVIDUAL modifications to ARM's chip set, Intel, Motorola, and Texas Instruments are campaigning to convince developers and users of the advantages expected from a raft of new handheld devices that will contain their chips. ...

Microsoft releases Datacenter Server.(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... On the road to a .Net version of Datacenter Server, Microsoft next week will begin shipping an interim release of its highest-end server operating system. Windows Datacenter Server Limited Edition, which is available only through some of...

Macromedia and Adobe update tools.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 11, 2002... Macromedia and Adobe separately updated their Web development tool lines this week. Macromedia announced Flash MX, an application development environment for building rich Web-based applications rather than just a tool for creating animation...

Intel begins shipping its mobile Pentium 4.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 11, 2002... Intel will bring its Pentium 4 processor to mobile PCs next week and, as usual, several major PC makers will release products based on the chip. Using Intel's SpeedStep technology, the Pentium 4 Processor-M operates using low-voltage, which...

Softek touts automation - Single console offers centralized storage management capabilities.(Product Announcement)
March 11, 2002... FUJITSU SOFTEK, the storage software arm of Fujitsu, jumped ahead of storage software stalwarts such as Veritas this week to become one of the first storage software vendors to offer a single, integrated, automated storage management console....

Automate the books - Intacct's Web-enabled financial suite eases application integration.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 11, 2002... ALTHOUGH MOST OF the buzz about enterprise integration has focused on front-office applications such as sales force automation and online shopping malls, financial software is arguably the true source of most integration-related headaches....

Vignette melds Webservices, CM.(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Vignette this week revealed plans to add support for two Web services standards to its flagship Web CM (content management) system, V6. The company will arm V6 with support for SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and WSDL (Web Services...