Databased Web Advisor articles from September 1997

Databased Web Advisor archives from September 1997

The day the Internet died. (Internet service failures)(Editorial)
September 1, 1997... How many close calls do we need? And, new ADVISOR DEVCONs. Last month, I wrote about Internet traffic jams and inefficient routings. In mid-July, a show-stopping event brought down the Internet! First, a follow-up. Readers in a variety...

Ask Advisor.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 1997... Q: After finally getting DHCP running properly on my server (thanks very much, by the way), I was checking out the leases we've allocated, and noticed something strange. According to the DHCP Manager Active Leases list, most of my...

Changing with the times. (NetDynamics 3.1 network applications development software) (Hooking Up To The Web) (Software Review)(Evaluation)(Cover Story)
September 1, 1997... NetDynamics, from the company of the same name, is one of the first database to web tools. It's gone through some changes, and is still in the running. Spider Technologies created one of the earliest web-database connectivity tools, a...

100% pure Java: JDesignerPro, from BulletProof Corporation, provides a product that's Java from start to finish. (Software Review)(Evaluation)(Cover Story)
September 1, 1997... JDesignerPro, from BulletProof Corporation, provides a product that's Java from start to finish. BulletProof Corporation makes a tool that is Java from start to finish. Even the front-end tool, used to examine the databases, select the...

Stepping up the pace. (Bluestone's Sapphire/Web 3.5 application development software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)(Cover Story)
September 1, 1997... Sapphire/Web, from Bluestone, is another venerable contender that's changed to meet increasing demands. Bluestone produces one of the most elegant and complete webdata-base connectivity tools. In its earlier incarnations, like NetDynamics,...

New kid on the block. (Infoscape's Fresco Designer application development software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)(Cover Story)
September 1, 1997... Fresco, from Infoscape, provides flexibility for developing user interfaces. One of the newest contenders in the field of web-based database access tools is Fresco, from Infoscape. This tool comes in three pieces: Fresco Designer, Fresco...

Putting your database on the Web. (Wall Data's ARPEGGIO Live! Information Publishing Server Internet/Web database server) (Software Review)(Evaluation)(Cover Story)
September 1, 1997... ARPEGGIO Live!, created by Wall Data, provides the tools you need. ARPEGGIO Live! is one of the nicest database publishing tools I've used. It is a very simple solution for any company that needs to make its database information available...

Accessing data the NC way. (On-Line Innovations' Open Dialog programming utility) (Software Review)(Evaluation)(Cover Story)
September 1, 1997... Open Dialog lets you develop GUI applications that reside on the server, reducing maintenance and preparing for the Network Computer. According to Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle (and a host of others), network computers (NetPCs) represent...

Pulling packages from the Web. (DHL Airways uses webMethods' Web Automation Toolkit 2.0 application development software to build a package-tracking system) (Product Information)
September 1, 1997... DHL uses webMethods Web Automation Toolkit 2.0 to build universal package-tracking software for its customers. "The greatest thing about webMethods," says Mark Lussier, a San Mateo, California-based lead software engineer with DHL Airways,...

Go paperless with Java and JDBC. (University of California at Irvine; the Phoenix Project; Java Database Connectivity API) (includes related articles on creating easier Java-based forms and using pure Java JDBC drivers) (Product Information)
September 1, 1997... How can large organizations make it easy for users to access data electronically? The University of California-Irvine found a way--with Java and the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API. A funny thing happened on the way to a paperless...

Persistence pays off. (Object Design Inc's ObjectStore PSE Pro for Java) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 1, 1997... Use ObjectStore PSE Pro for Java as an inexpensive method of persistent object storage. With Java, you often need to keep objects persistent to have their definitions and states survive the applications that created them. ObjectStore PSE...

Deploy apps on the Web. (Netiva 2.0 intranet development and deployment software) (Product Information)
September 1, 1997... Netiva 2.0 is an Intranet development and deployment tool. The addition of SQL database connectivity to this upgrade lets workgroups interact with large corporate datasets. Then, users can instantly access the data through a web browser....

E-mail security and virus protection. (Wormhole Technologies' SecurText encryption software) (Product Information)
September 1, 1997... SecurText lets users secure their files and e-mail using a 256-bit encryption. It also offers anti-virus protection and full e-mail functionality in a single application. US$99. Wormhole Technologies, Inc. Princeton, NJ (201) 325-8100, fax...

Java app development solution. (ParcPlace-Digitalk's PARTS for Java 2.0) (Product Information)
September 1, 1997... PARTS for Java 2.0 lets developers create distributed Java applets and applications by providing a drag-and-drop visual programming environment for the delivery and maintenance of Internet applications. New features include a pure Java...

Relational database management system. (Computer Associates International's OpenIngres 2.0 DBMS) (Product Information)
September 1, 1997... Openingres 2.0, a multiplatform relational database management system for mission-critical business processing, features expanded connectivity and replication technology to simplify the creation and management of Web applications. A macro...

Push technology. (LANACOM's Headliner Professional Internet access software) (Product Information)
September 1, 1997... Headliner Professional automatically delivers and manages news and information from the Internet, corporate Intranets, newsgroups, and e-mail. Users define exactly what information gets delivered, from what source, and how it gets displayed....

Web-to-host integration solution. (Attachmate's EXTRA! Host Publishing System 2.1) (Product Information)
September 1, 1997... EXTRA! Host Publishing System 2.1 provides developers with a 3-tier client/server solution to publish host data to users' Web browsers without modifying or reengineering the original data. The product runs with Windows NT, UNIX, or Netscape Web...

Object databases - the right tool for the job. (NeoLogic's NeoAccess object database used by Web Based Training Systems) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
September 1, 1997... WBT Systems finds its database answer in NeoLogic's NeoAccess object database. Object Databases suffer from a bit of an identity crisis. The reason for this is simple: There are several different kinds of products being called object...

Build dynamic web pages: beyond CGI. (Microsoft NSAPI and Netscape ISAPI are more flexible than CGI) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
September 1, 1997... Turn to ISAPI or NSAPI to build more flexible, secure and, in some cases, faster loading dynamic web pages. CGI is a powerful technique for making data and processing interactively available via web pages. However, CGI has several...

Groupware redefined. (Lotus, Microsoft, Novell and Netscape) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
September 1, 1997... Internet protocols have transformed the groupware landscape. Lotus is battling not only Microsoft and Novell, but now Netscape, to hang on to the territory it conquered with Notes. When it comes to understanding the current groupware...

Voice-enable your applications. (IBM's VoiceType Simply Speaking Gold voice recognition software) (includes related article on IBM's ViaVoice continuous speech recognition software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 1, 1997... Talk to your computer with IBM VoiceType Simply Speaking Gold. Imagine yourself sitting at your computer, working productively, meeting your deadlines. You select text, copy, and paste it into other applications. Menus drop down. Context...

Process management tools. (LBMS's Process Engineer 7.0) (Product Information)
September 1, 1997... Process Engineer Version 7.0 provides process management capabilities for 32-bit platforms, specifically Windows 95 and Windows NT. New components include: PE/Project Manager for integrated project scheduling; PE/Process Manager, an authoring,...

Enterprise management solution. (NORDX/CDT's DynaTraX network management software) (Product Information)
September 1, 1997... DynaTraX gives network managers the ability to manage and maintain all network reconfigurations. It also offers a way to control the physical layer by providing remote network reconfiguration for any type of network and the associated tracking...

Scalable Internet and Intranet apps. (HREF Tools' WebHub applications development software)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 1997... WebHub 1.0 provides Delphi 2 and 3 programmers a development framework for building scalable Internet and Intranet applications. The components handle CGI interface transparently for ISAPI, NSAPI, CGI-Win and CGI-bin. Other web-specific...

Submit THIS! Create guest book type pages on your web site that allow analysis of the data. (Microrim's Submit THIS! web authoring software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 1, 1997... Create guest book type pages on your web site that allow analysis of the data. These days it isn't enough to simply have a web page--people expect to be dazzled when they get to your page. The trick is to hold their attention long enough...

LeHigh Valley Safety Supply gets electronic commerce: with a little help from Trifecta Technologies and IBM Net.Commerce, LeHigh Valley makes sales on the World Wide Web. (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
September 1, 1997... With a little help from Trifecta Technologies and IBM Net. Commerce, LeHigh Valley makes sales on the World Wide Web. Electronic commerce is becoming one of the new buzz words in business today. While there's a lot of hype surrounding the...

Security solutions. (How to insure network security) (Question and Answer)
September 1, 1997... Protecting Intranets Q: Our company is developing an Intranet, and we're thinking of letting staff, and possibly clients, access some database information from the Web. Can you explain what a denial of service attack is and how I can...

Digital certificates and certificate authorities. (public key cryptography) (includes related articles on verifying digital signatures and sending session-key messages) (Government Activity)
September 1, 1997... Reasons why we need to establish trust in the cyber world. The growth of the Internet and its associated operating environment has taken even its most ardent users by surprise. No matter what metric is used--the number of users, the number...

The top security issues for NT networks. (Microsoft's Windows NT Server security tips) (Product Support)
September 1, 1997... Pilots are trained to put their aircraft through a comprehensive examination before taking off, even though they know a trusted mechanic has already done the job. That's the same sort of approach that security-minded systems administrators...