e-Business Advisor articles from April 1998

e-Business Advisor archives from April 1998

Welcome to E-Business Advisor.(Editor on the Go) (Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
April 1, 1998... This is your professional guide to the new era of e-business technology. Welcome to our new magazine, e-BUSINESS ADVISOR, the technical guide to building successful e-business solutions. This magazine is written by IT experts, for IT...

Countdown to the Euro. (European Community single currency plan) (Government Activity)
April 1, 1998... On January 1, 1999, countries in the European Community plan to launch a single currency--the euro. By 2002, the euro will replace the national currencies of participating countries and become the de facto currency. Analysts estimate the cost...

XML 1.0 makes its debut.(extensible mark-up language for the Web) (Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 1998... The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced the first version of the extensible mark-up language (XML) standard, a document-smart language for the Web. While HTML is primarily a layout language, XML uses Document Type Definitions (DTD)...

Java makeover. (Sun Microsystems Java Foundation Classes 1.1)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 1998... Sun has released Java Foundation Classes (JFC) 1.1, a set of GUI components for application development. New high-level components (nicknamed Swing components) are written in Java, without window-system specific code. This gives developers a...

IBM champions business intelligence. (Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 1998... IBM is kicking off a global effort to help companies implement what it's calling Business Intelligence solutions. IBM differentiates its Business Intelligence solution from other data warehousing solutions by offering information mining and...

Ask E-Business advisor. (market trends in front-end Web site design) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) (Question and Answer)(Column)
April 1, 1998... Designing Front Ends Q: What is the market trend in front-end design? Should front ends be built using Visual Basic, C++, or HTML? What are the market demands, and where will they be in the future? A: The front-end design decision...

Advisor tips. (programming) (News Briefs)
April 1, 1998... Traceroute and Ping Script * PERL * CGI Increasingly, developers are finding the need to code a traceroute routine in their applications. (One reason for doing this is to learn the IP addresses of visitors to their sites.)...

Build an effective E-commerce site. (Technology Tutorial)
April 1, 1998... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Whether you're creating or evolving your business to the online world, there's no doubt this move changes your business processes and you need a way to evaluate the effect it has on your bottom line. One way to...

Credit card automation on the Web. (Technology Tutorial)
April 1, 1998... Here are some options for handling e-commerce credit card transactions. HIGHLIGHTS Cybercash Secure-bank.com Secure Bank GO Software PC-Charge Fulcrum Point Technologies Active Shopping Cart As a hosting service for both web...

JavaBeans for the enterprise. (Sun Microsystems Enterprise JavaBeans specification) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
April 1, 1998... Here's a first look at the new Enterprise JavaBeans specification you'll be using to create business applications that can go anywhere! HIGHLIGHTS Clients Containers JavaBeans Enterprise specification Servers According to Sun...

Optimize your COM application architecture. (Technology Tutorial)
April 1, 1998... Design your COM servers in two or more tiers to reduce remote procedure calls and optimize data passing. HIGHLIGHTS COM components DCOM Microsoft Visual Basic Remote procedure calls EXECUTIVE SUMMARY When it comes to...

Inside SilverStream server. (SilverStream Software SilverStream Web application development platform)(includes related article on the system requirements for the software) (Product Information)
April 1, 1998... A look at the state-of-the-art in e-business application development and deployment. Because Internet technology involves many new tools and languages with greater complexity, developing advanced applications can be quite difficult. An...

Development tool offers choice in languages and data stores. (POET SQL Object Factory)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 1998... POET SQL Object Factory is a language-independent, object-relational gateway between object-oriented programming languages and relational databases. You can choose Java, C++, or ActiveX and decide at runtime whether to store the data in the...

Integrate and Secure Heritage Systems. (ActiveWeb Integration System 2.1)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 1998... ActiveWeb Integration System 2.1 offers digital signature and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connectivity for security as an Information Broker option, an Adapter for DB2 mainframe databases, and Java support for the Sunsoft Java Development Kit...

Zip and unzip components. (Xceed Zip Compression Library 3.0)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 1998... The Xceed Zip Compression Library 3.0 includes 16- and 32-bit VBX, OCX, and VCL components, and features: memory compression, global status reports, file renaming, and creation of self-extracting Zip files, and works with Xceed Zip...

Distribute your Web site on a CD-ROM.(MarketScape WebCD 2.0) (Product Information)
April 1, 1998... Bypass the Internet to deliver content with the MarketScape WebCD. It's every web developer's dream. You've spent months or years creating the killer web site for your company or client, and it sings out to the world. It's bright, beautiful,...

Performance Tuning C++, Java, and Visual Basic Code. (Technology Tutorial)
April 1, 1998... Visual Quantify cam help you find code execution bottlenecks. How many times have you heard users ask, "Why is this program so slow?" Performance bottlenecks aren't usually obvious just by glancing at source code. And when you factor in new...

IBM's E-business database initiative. (Database management software solutions General Manager Janet Perna) (Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 1998... IBM's Janet Perna explains how database technology, especially DB2, is helping drive the e-business revolution. HIGHLIGHTS IBM DB2 Universal Database IBM Net.Commerce Lotus Notes Network Computing Framework SQL In spite of ups,...

Security solutions. (Question and Answer)
April 1, 1998... HIGHLIGHTS Securing your Windows 95 Settings PGP for Freeware and Non-Commercial Developers Synchronizing an NT Domain Cisco Routers Land Attack Fix Recovering Lost Passwords New NTBugTraq Service Our first question this month is about...

e-Biz Buz (News Briefs)
April 1, 1998... Lotus Beacon Awards recognize superior uses of Lotus Notes and Domino technology Buzz predicts that the organizers of the 1998 Beacon Awards banquet won't be receiving an award next year. Outside the Walt Disney World Hilton ballroom, an angry...