eWEEK EDITORS

A few weeks ago, I was talking to the operations manager of a medium-size bank in New England. We were discussing a new commercial online banking application the bank was planning to roll out. He wanted to use a strong authentication model, but the product managers were overruling him. “User name and password is perfectly […]

Veritas Software Corp. is rolling out several tools it says will make it easier for IT administrators to manage, monitor and maintain servers. The tools—Global Cluster Manager, Cluster Server Quick Start and Traffic Director—will be part of the companys Pervasive High Availability line of products. The tool kit will help IT managers manage and monitor […]

This week, as the faithful turn out for Suns sixth annual JavaOne Java developers conference, were struck by how, well, boring JavaOne has gotten. Gone is the glitter of a possible new Windows killer, a new operating system and the whole Java über alles message that Sun CEO Scott McNealy is so fond of pitching. […]

The legal wranglings between Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. may be over, but the competitive ones are not. This week, as Sun executives preach the Java gospel at the JavaOne conference, they will wage a battle on a new front: Web services. While the Sun ONE (Open Net Environment) strategy is seen as lagging […]

Microsoft, which has stuck to its guns in building proprietary software over the past two decades, is about to blast down the walls when it begins rolling out .Net this summer. The XML-based strategy, which allows software to be distributed as a service by application service providers, is the companys first attempt to push beyond […]

Iona Technologies will use the JavaOne annual conference for Java developers in San Francisco this week to launch its next-generation Java software at reduced prices. “We believe the Java 2 Enterprise Edition [J2EE] market is about to become a volume market. The application server is about to become a commodity. Were leading that charge,” said […]

Vice President of eBusiness and Collaboration, Seagate Technology Age: 47 Degree: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Materials Management from the University of Phoenix Car: Audi A6 TT Stress reliever: Making digital videos In the nascent world of electronic commerce, no ones sure what will happen. Thats why Seagate Technology, the worlds largest manufacturer […]

Wireless companies are trying to add more bang for the buck to corporate networks by extending applications to mobile workers. Corporations have invested billions in their infrastructures, but many workers spend most of the time away from their desks. “Its great stuff, but it cant be accessed,” said Jason Guesman, director of business marketing at […]

In the city of Novosibirsk in Siberias Ural Mountains, rent hovers at just $30 per month. Cell phone service is so cheap that some Muscovites get their plans there, then pay roaming charges to use their service at home. So it should be no surprise that software development company Plesk, which pays $400 to $1,500 […]

A clearinghouse for software components is trying to boost the amount of reuse within enterprises by launching a service to create private component marketplaces. ComponentSource Inc., which has a public marketplace of 6,500 components written in various languages, last week announced ComponentSource ERS (Enterprise Reuse Solution) to help enterprise customers supply, manage and use components. […]

At one time, Microsoft produced one of the fastest Java Virtual Machines, and programmers using its Visual J++ development tool represented one of the largest blocks — if not the largest block — of Java programmers. On Oct. 7, 1997, everything changed. Sun Microsystems filed suit against Microsoft for allegedly violating the terms of its […]

Xuma has evolved enterprise application integration messaging technology to create a Distributed Internet Operating System that provides a plug-and-play application infrastructure upon which e-business solutions are built. The Xuma application infrastructure provides a robust messaging layer to facilitate integration of Web system applications to a common bus, thus eliminating the need for developers to do […]