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Mining the intranet [December 12, 2003]
One of my early uses of Web services, back in 1999, predated SOAP and WSDL. It was a script to calculate what I called Web
mindshare. It combined Yahoo’s capability of enumerating sites in a category with AltaVista’s capability of counting inbound
links to each of those sites. It was a primitive version of what Google, then in beta, went on to prove dramatically: Links
measure authority. What interested me even more, though, was how easily that little script was able to compose a novel service
— ranking everything in a category — from two existing but unrelated services.
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DevPartner 7.1 is a powerful programmers suite [November 26, 2003]
The transition to Microsoft’s brave new world of managed code will probably take a decade, during which time Windows programmers
will struggle with the complexities of a hybrid managed/unmanaged environment -- both in the Windows OS itself and in the
componentized applications and services layered on top of it. Instrumenting these very different programming environments
-- so that developers can analyze, profile, and more effectively debug programs straddling the unmanaged and managed worlds
-- is a big challenge that Compuware's latest offering, DevPartner Studio 7.1, tackles fearlessly.
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Interview: webMethods CEO eyes Web services innovation [November 24, 2003]
Integration vendors such as webMethods are constantly attempting to simplify application integration technologies. According
to Philip Merrick, chairman and CEO at webMethods, the next round of innovation in the integration space will come from leveraging
Web services standards to improve workflow and business processes.
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IBM adds 10 new Express products [October 31, 2003]
IBM on Friday continued its hot pursuit of the mid-market, adding 10 new offerings to its Express line of products and services,
most of which are intended to improve integration and information management capabilities in hopes of making it easier for
IT shops to establish on demand computing environments.
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Crazy talk [October 24, 2003]
I'm not necessarily the world's biggest Dilbert fan, but one Dilbert cartoon I saw recently really hits the nail on the head
in describing the often tenuous relationship of IT to business in day-to-day software projects. In this cartoon, Dilbert says
to one of the business guys: "I'll design the system as soon as you give me the user requirements." The business guy replies,
"Better yet, you could build the system, then I'll tell your boss that it doesn't meet my needs." Dilbert replies, "I don't
mean to frighten you, but you'll have to do some actual work," to which the business guy quickly replies: "That's crazy talk."
I laughed at this -- just before I remembered all the times this scenario has played out in one form or another in my own
career.
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Thunderstone Search Appliance finds the needle [October 24, 2003]
The Thunderstone Search Appliance is designed to be a nearly plug-and-play solution to enterprise Web searching. You’re supposed
to be able to install the Linux-based 1U appliance in a rack, plug in a network cable and a power cable, and begin indexing.
While the reality is a little more involved, Thunderstone is clearly onto something. I found that the process of getting the
Search Appliance up and running was quick and easy, and that once running, it was a very powerful search appliance indeed.
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Platform without a Framework [October 17, 2003]
Before the Windows Server 2003 on Itanium platform can be described as fully baked, a number of supporting side dishes must
emerge from Redmond’s oven: messaging (Exchange Server), business-to-business/extranet (BizTalk Server), legacy platform integration
(Host Integration Server), and collaboration functionality (SharePoint Portal Server).
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How rich is the rich GUI? [October 17, 2003]
Sometimes when his lieutenants are talking, I close my eyes and hear Bill Gates -- his cadence, his repetition of favorite
words. One of those favorite words is "great," as in "great platform for connected apps." Another, delivered with no apparent
sense of irony, is "rich," as in "rich Internet apps." We absorb these words so easily that we can lose sight of the agendas
behind them.
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NTT DoCoMo continues to seek global opportunities [October 14, 2003]
Continuing its efforts to expand globally, NTT DoCoMo Inc. is in talks with other carriers to introduce its i-mode mobile
Internet service in Asia and Europe while exploring opportunities in China, President and Chief Executive Officer Keiji Tachikawa
said Monday at the Telecom World 2003 conference and exhibition in Geneva.
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IBM to speed Web infrastructure rollouts [October 08, 2003]
IBM Corp. Wednesday announced it would make the second offering from its Project Symphony product family generally available
by the end of October. The latest bundled product will help IBM customers more quickly deploy Web infrastructure on their
nets, Big Blue says.
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Software licensing must evolve, execs say [October 06, 2003]
SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Software licensing practices must change to accommodate economic and technology trends, stressed officials
at the SoftSummit conference here on Thursday.
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Pumatech to acquire Synchrologic for $60 million [September 16, 2003]
Pumatech, a leading provider of mobile synchronization software, announced an agreement this week to buy Synchrologic, a leader
in mobile management software products.
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Adobe to take Creative Suite bundles global [September 02, 2003]
After a trial in Italy, Adobe Systems Inc. plans to announce at the end of this month that it will sell its "Creative Suite"
collections of professional graphics software worldwide.
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Microsoft warns of critical flaws in Internet Explorer [August 21, 2003]
Microsoft Corp. released a patch for a number of flaws in its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser Wednesday, including two
it rated critical for some versions of the browser, which could enable an attacker to take control of a user's computer.
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IBM automates Web development [August 14, 2003]
IBM on Thursday is rolling out a series of tools that reportedly relieve programmers from some of the menial work associated
with Web development, freeing them to focus on building, deploying, and testing applications and Web sites in an on-demand
fashion.
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