Jim Rapoza

Theres an old saying that goes, “things need to get really bad before they can get better.” It looks like we may have reached that point with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent system has been in rough shape for a while. The columns and editorials written in eWEEK alone about the […]

When eWEEK Labs was pitched a product described as a business process management solution provided as a hosted service, it instantly received consideration for a “worst product idea imaginable” award. Just thinking about the problems and risks inherent in trying to tie together vital, sensitive, back-end business systems over the Internet through an ASP filled […]

The Mozilla Foundations Firefox browser was designed to compete directly with Microsoft Corp.s Internet Explorer. eWEEK Labs tests show that Firefox handily wins the competition on features, capabilities and adherence to standards, although IE still has an edge in the enterprise because of inertia and the availability of robust deployment and customization tools. We recommend, […]

The competitive Web content management field has seen more than its fair share of mergers and acquisitions, which have led to the demise of many good products. But some products have managed to survive and even thrive through the constant changes. Click here to read the full review of FatWires Content Server 6.1. 2 The […]

I often wonder what shopping in the “real” world would be like if all vendors followed the same practices as many enterprise software vendors. For example, imagine walking up to the fish counter at a supermarket and ordering two lobsters. The fishmonger says, “OK” and returns with two crabs. You say, “Wait a second. Those […]

Great news! It looks like that bad old practice of perpetual software licensing is going to go the way of the dodo. No longer will you have to deal with the inconvenience and hassle of paying once for software and getting to use it whenever you want to and for as long as you want […]

In the third and easily the worst “Godfather” movie, Michael Corleone utters the oft-repeated quote, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” I was feeling a little like Don Corleone myself recently while Web surfing. Thats because something that I thought had become a part of my past was making […]

Sir? Yes, you—the one creating the Web services. Please step away from the computer and place your hands behind your head. And you three using the EAI system to tie together your business applications, Im going to have to take you down to the station. Why is this happening? Its because all of you developers […]

Dateline 2204, North American Metropolitan Quadrant, Village of Boston—Researchers with the Institute for Information and Data Reclamation yesterday announced a major discovery at an archaeological dig in the Boston area: a large cache of a printed publication called eWEEK, containing technology-oriented writings by noted turn-of-the-millennium writer/humanitarian/technologist/ entertainer Jim Rapoza. According to Lead Archaeologist Archibald Meeks, […]

Many companies choose the JBoss application server because of its extreme ease of deployment (you basically just unpack it and run it) and because it runs on almost every operating system platform out there. ISVs like it because of its strong support for standards, and its modular design makes it ideal for embedding within other […]

Theres been increased overlap and cross-pollination among business process management, enterprise application integration, service-oriented architectures and Web services management. Given this trend, and the confusion and deployment problems it can cause for corporations, it can make very good sense to combine all these capabilities within a single product suite. Click here to read the full […]

Its official. Microsoft recently stated definitively—and contrary to rumors—that there will be no new versions of Internet Explorer for users of older versions of Windows. So what does this mean for the majority of Windows users, who arent even on Windows XP? Microsoft officials have said these users must upgrade to Windows XP Service Pack […]