Monthly Archives: October 2002
IBMs Allegro Clears Up Web Services
Well all eventually tire of the term "Web services," and it will go away. Until then, it will be used by every surviving tech...
Excelon Adds XML, .Net Support to Extensible Information Server
Excelon Corp. is beefing up its support of XML and Microsoft Corp.s .Net platform in new versions of its XML database engine and its...
Rift Threatens Web Services Security Spec
An emerging rift among supporters of a proposed Web services security specification could slow the ratification of the standard and hamstring enterprises trying to...
Novell Tunes Extend Tools
Novell Inc. is moving fast to update the Extend application development suite it acquired in July as it tries to remake itself as a...
The Features You Want in the Browser You Want
After eWeek Labs recent reviews of Netscape 7.0 and Mozilla 1.0, we received a lot of e-mail from users of the two browsers. Many...
Messaging Upgrades Key on TCO
Microsoft Corp. and IBMs Lotus Software division are each touting reductions in the total cost of ownership of corporate messaging systems as the primary...
Open-Source Smoke Screen
Between public bouts of dissing Linux, Microsoft quietly is ripping pages from the open-source playbook and taping them to its own.Examples? The most obvious...
Cashing In on Linux
Retail businesses can operate in hundreds, even thousands, of dispersed geographic locations and be staffed by employees with little, if any, IT training. But...
Novell Drives Home Linux
Novell Inc. is breaking from tradition and quietly working to add Linux throughout its product and service lines. The move is part of a...
Wide-Open Internet Gets Fenced-In Feeling
Rate the following statements on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 is "piffle" and 5 is, "How could it be otherwise?"1. Proponents...