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Theres nothing so unifying as a common foe. Finally, a war has united the country with a common sense of purpose not seen since the “greatest generation” was in its prime. It took an enemy so pernicious that the best efforts of the brightest minds have been unable so far to curb it. This enemy […]

Sun Microsystems has changed its mind on Linux more often than a 16-year-old flipping through outfits. Yet another shoe dropped at Sun with its announcement at the end of last month that it will be killing its Sun Linux 5.0 distribution. Suns adventures with Linux say a lot about whats really important to the future […]

Its not an overstatement to say that much of B2Bs future depends on SOAP, the Web services standard that defines how two computers engage each others services via XML commands. Without Simple Object Access Protocol, Web services-based computing, including business-to-business e-commerce, would be in doubt. Fortunately, support for SOAP is widespread, and mature implementations are […]

Arent we smarter than this? News that a hacker recently accessed as many as 8 million Visa and MasterCard accounts would have been shocking if we werent becoming so disturbingly numb to such break-ins. We really cant go on this way if retail e-commerce is to become a permanent, trusted part of our lives. How […]