e-Business Advisor articles from July 2002

e-Business Advisor archives from July 2002

Too much of a good thing? Is it possible to "over-architect" a development project? (Advisor View).(development frameworks and methodologies)
July 1, 2002... AS APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT becomes more complex, a slew of development frameworks and methodologies--patterns, Rational Unified Process (RUP), UML, and STRUTS to name a few--have emerged to help IT architects translate business needs into...

Product watch. (update).(Entrust TruePass 6.0)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Web Services Grand Central Web Services Network is a subscription service for hosted Web services. It handles messaging among Web services, lets users manage and provision Web services interfaces, end provides tools to organize logical...

Do Microsoft Office users finally have an alternative? (update).(Sun StarOffice 6.0)
July 1, 2002... Sun StarOffice 6.0 is now available, and positioned as a direct competitor to Microsoft Office, StarOffice lets users create, edit, and save documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Microsoft Office has 95 percent of the office...

Host Web services on Lotus Domino 5 or Domino 6- now! (update).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Web services is shaping up as the most important evolution in software architecture since the arrival of the Web. While the concept is simple, supporting Web services is turning out to require the next-generation of most software platforms....

Java Data Objects 1.0 released. (update).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... A NEW STANDARD CALLED JAVA DATA OBJECTS (JDO) promises to simplify relational database access from within Java programs. The JDO 1.0 specification lets Java developers work with familiar Java constructs to store Java objects in transactional...

Security standards vie for mindshare. (update).(RSA Security's OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language specification)
July 1, 2002... RSA Security has announced it will grant non-exclusive royalty-free licensed use of two of its patents to companies deploying applications that make use of the OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) specification. The patents both...

Web Services peace plan. (update).(Web Services Interoperability organization)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organization was formed to help ensure compatibility among the various standards associated with Web services. More than 100 companies have joined WS-I, but not Sun Microsystems. Although Sun has been...

App server commoditization to cause shake-out? (update).(application server market)
July 1, 2002... MANY FACTORS PLAY into a company's choice of which application server it will use to run its applications, and core functionality is no longer the primary consideration, according to a recent study. AMR Research has published a research...

Leverage counts in the app server market. (update).(application server vendors)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Application server vendors with "extras" to leverage have an important advantage in this market. Microsoft's leg up is its .NET platform; AMR says Microsoft is moving toward becoming the third largest application server provider, due in large...

Knowledge management in action: Gartner's KM expert, French Caldwell, discusses best (and worst) practices in knowledge management. (Advisor Interview).(Interview)
July 1, 2002... BIO French Caldwell is a research director in Gartner's Research organization, where he focuses on the knowledge management practice. His research includes analysis of knowledge management services and technologies, user strategies and...

Web services from the ground up: understanding the basic elements of Web services is the key to a solid architecture. (Architecture).
July 1, 2002... WHY IS WEB SERVICES SO HOT? Reason one: The IT world is always churning out some new technology that promises to solve all our problems--Web services is the latest in a long line. Reason two: Although Web services won't solve all our problems,...

Outsourcing done right: services sourcing is too critical to an organization's success and competitiveness to be left to informal groups, ad-hoc processes, and piecemeal supporting systems. (Project Management).
July 1, 2002... AS THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN continues, one trend has continued unabated: Organizations are becoming more "virtual." Organizations are narrowing the range of processes and functions they perform internally, and outsourcing or eliminating the rest....

BREW basics: Qualcomm is hoping its BREW technology will be the catalyst for the wireless revolution. The wireless carriers are starting to buy into this new technology. How about you? (Wireless).
July 1, 2002... ISN'T IT NICE TO KNOW you can drive your car into any gas station and be assured the fuel you need is right there, waiting for you? Unless you're driving a diesel truck, open standards in the gasoline industry give you the freedom to choose any...

Your guide to choosing a load testing tool: ask the right questions when searching for a load testing tool. (Performance).(Buyers Guide)
July 1, 2002... AT THE GARTNER SYMPOSIUM in April 2002, much of the discussion in the keynote interview of eBay's CEO, Meg Whitman, and President, Maynard Webb, focused on some of the outages eBay suffered in 1999. The upshot: If you're eBay and your site goes...

Reduce the effects of unwanted e-mail: spam. There's no avoiding it completely, but you can minimize the impact it has on your systems and user productivity. (Messaging).
July 1, 2002... UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (UCE), more commonly known as spam, floods the world's electronic post offices with millions of messages a day. According to an official European Commission study (europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/enlmedia...

Assess network security with Nmap: looking for a security auditing tool? Nmap is your first stop. (Advisor[R] Eval[TM]).(Evaluation)
July 1, 2002... NMAP IS A PUBLIC DOMAIN port scanning tool that's fast, efficient, and has many advanced features. Nmap has been around for a while, but has recently been gaining popularity among security professionals because of these continual enhancements....

E-commerce. (Advisor[R] Tips[TM].(Internet credit card processing)
July 1, 2002... Credit Card Authorization Basics Surf to Google and run a search on "Internet Merchant Account". The number of results is staggering (472,000)! For companies wanting to accept credit card payments via the Web, the choices are limitless....

E-biz buzz[TM]. (Industry Insider[TM]).(ReplayTV computer systems)
July 1, 2002... REPAIRTV ReplayTV is the home video recorder that uses a hard drive rather than tape. Using one is fun and addictive (and better than rival Tivo, says Buzz). But, there's a catch: Inside a Tivo or ReplayTV is a computer system that defies...