Jim Rapoza

GoLive 6 .0 Goes to the Enterprise”> Adobe Systems Inc. has made steady improvements in its Web authoring tool, GoLive. Continuing this progress, Version 6.0 moves beyond being a useful tool for building Web sites with a lot of multimedia to become a full-fledged, enterprise-worthy Web development system with excellent group content management features and […]

The world wide web Consortium standard RDF, the underpinning technology to Web creator Tim Berners-Lees vision of the semantic Web, has also become a very useful tool for describing the metadata behind content taxonomies, complex document descriptions and site mappings. Like other standards based on XML, Resource Description Framework is created and edited in text-based […]

Enterprises last week had 11 more reasons to rethink using IIS: 10 new security holes in the Microsoft Web server and the arrival of Apache 2.0. After three years of development, Apache 2.0 (or, more accurately, Version 2.035) has finally been released. Unix users will find plenty to like in Version 2.0, but the biggest […]

This week, Microsoft very quietly pulled the plug on its My Services/Persona/Hailstorm initiative. Dont worry if youre among the millions who dont know what this was or why you should care. Simply put, this was Microsofts grand Web services plan, in which it would become the gatekeeper for everyones personal individual Web services. Doing business […]

First there was knowledge management, and it promised to bring order to all the documents and other content generated by corporations. Then came portals, which took many of the features of KM and combined them with powerful search engines and intuitive, customizable Web interfaces. These were followed by enterprise information portals, which forsook their KM […]

Several products have popped up during the last year or so that try to use peer-to-peer technology to make it easier for users to send very large files. Sage Analytics Technologies MagicVortex is a more usable and effective tool for this than most others, in part because it isnt a true P2P product. To use […]

Web services are defined in part as programmatic interfaces that build bridges among disparate IT resources. When portal vendors hear things like that, they invariably say, “Hey! Thats what we do.” And, for the most part, theyre right. The main differences among Web services and the applications that make up a portal is that portal […]

Web Content Gains New Flash”> Macromedia Inc.s Flash MX is a complete rearchitecture of the leading platform for rich-media Web applications, offering improved performance, greater support for video and other media formats, greater ability to deal with databases, and a completely redesigned and very customizable development environment. In another critical area, Flash MX, which shipped […]

Although Macromedia Inc. gets the most attention as the caretaker of Flash, there are several other worthwhile tools on the market that can be used to generate content in the Flash format. Adobe Systems Inc.s LiveMotion is at the top of that list and is the main competitor to Macromedias Flash MX. Traditionally, these two […]

Last week, the greatest threat that Americas technology infrastructure has ever faced reared its head. It isnt a deadly new worm or a fast-spawning virus. Its a bill introduced to Congress by Sen. Fritz Hollings called the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act. Some of you may have heard of this bill and not […]

Everything will be connected to everything. Technologies such as Web services and peer-to-peer are creating a world where a technology you are using may be relying on several connected technologies from different vendors. And the funny thing is, they say this is a good thing. But Im wondering if these are symbiotic or parasitic associations. […]

Although XML gets a lot of attention as a format for handling dynamic data transactions in business integration and Web services, it is also regularly used for data-rich documents. SoftQuad Softwares new version of XMetal bolsters the already strong XML document editor with improved usability and support for new XML standards. Among the principal new […]