Jim Rapoza

When we first looked at Cape Clear Softwares platform more than two years ago, the company was strictly a Web service management player—a very good one, with strong developer-oriented tools for creating and managing Web services. Click here to read the full review of Clear ESB 6.6. 2 When we first looked at Cape Clear […]

Its often great to be a pioneer, and Sonic Software can certainly make that claim in the areas of messaging, Web services and ESBs. Click here to read the full review of Sonic ESB 7.0. 2 Its often great to be a pioneer, and Sonic Software can certainly make that claim in the areas of […]

When many people hear the acronym “ESB,” they think of cutting-edge products just emerging onto the technology scene. Probably the last word that comes to mind is “commodity,” but thats exactly what ESBs, or Enterprise Service Buses, are becoming. This may come as a surprise to many IT managers because ESBs arent that old. You […]

Youre a serious IT professional who deals only with serious IT issues, such as storage, enterprise content management, server arrays, high-performance computing and complex development. When you go to technology conventions, you go only to the serious conventions that are focused on these important issues, along with smaller but still serious shows conducted by major […]

Everybody probably knows of a family, or is a member of one, in which one of the children is an overachiever and one is an underachiever. Normally, its good to be the overachieving kid—except on those occasions when you slip a little and get a B+ instead of your normal A. Then, parents and teachers […]

Tina Turner once said that we dont need another hero, but I dont know if I agree. I know that Ive been looking for a hero in my ongoing trials and tribulations with Internet security. What form would this hero take? Would he or she be a hero who takes on the trends and attitudes […]

This year has seen more than its share of high-profile Microsoft beta releases, including Office 2007, Internet Explorer 7 and, of course, Vista. A beta version of another Microsoft product was recently released, but its gone mostly unnoticed, despite the fact that the application is the core engine for most of Microsofts enterprise applications strategy: […]

Less than a year ago, I wrote a column extolling the virtues of Windows 98 (see “Win 98: Always on My Mind” at eweek.com), calling it probably the most successful Windows operating system of all time and proudly proclaiming the fact that one of my home systems was still running the aged but still-spry OS. […]

Who doesnt like a good ESB? Cask-conditioned, served at cellar temperature with a nice foamy head. But thats enough about my preferred ESB—namely, the classic English pub ale known as Extra Special Bitter. Of course, in the technology and SOA (service-oriented architecture) world, ESB means something completely different: Enterprise Service Bus. And this particular combination […]

Lately i havent been feeling all that great. People tell me I should go to a doctor, but I dont really want to. My car also hasnt been running all that well recently. I should probably take it to a mechanic, but maybe later. Most people would think I were nuts-—theyd say that any problems […]