Monthly Archives: September 2002
Major Java Standards Updated
The Java application server market is about to go through another cycle of change with the imminent release of the J2EE 1.4 specification.J2EE (Java...
Oracle, PeopleSoft Move on Spend Management
Following the lead of smaller developers such as Ariba Inc. and CascadeWorks Inc., enterprise software developers Oracle Corp. and PeopleSoft Inc. are each readying...
eWeek Labs: Open Source Quicker at Fixing Flaws
The real question for it organizations isnt whether open-source software is more secure than proprietary software but which type of software is fixed fastest.Humans...
XML to Drive Office Update
The next version of Microsoft Corp.s Office productivity suite will come with XML support baked into Word, allowing users to, among other things, more...
Building a Process
While browsing through a bookstore in Santa Clara, Calif., Daniel Austin spotted a book on IT Model Driven Architecture written by Richard Hubert, founder...
Firms Line Up to Manage Web Services
As enterprises continue to experiment with Web services, more vendors are starting to roll out tools to manage them.Two in particular, Actional Corp. and...
Rival Carriers to Meet With White House
Rivals of local telephone companies plan to go to the White House next month to make an appeal for staying the course on telecommunications...
Open Source: A False Sense of Security?
Over the last couple of years, as security vulnerability reports have piled up on products from such big vendors as Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp....
KOffice 1.2 Makes Modest Progress
In September, the KDE project made available Version 1.2 of KOffice, an open-source productivity suite packed with new features, including an English thesaurus and...
Blazing An SRM Trail
John Halamka has more data than ever before. However, unlike in the past, hes not going to focus on getting more storage hardware when...