Jim Rapoza

When eWEEK Labs published its evaluation of enterprise information portals this past summer, we did so knowing that highly anticipated portal offerings from two of the biggest guns in the industry—IBM and Microsoft Corp.—would be coming out in the following months. It turns out they were worth the wait. IBMs WebSphere Portal 5.0 and Microsofts […]

Say “EULAs” (end-user license agreements) quickly, and it sounds like “You lose.” Its appropriate because both mean about the same thing. EULAs have been foisting one-sided insanity on the public for some time, even though they continue to lose when tested in court. Moreover, despite the resounding defeat suffered by the Uniform Computer Information Transactions […]

While Sanctum Inc.s AppScan has been an excellent aid for Web application developers looking for security holes in their projects, much of its focus has been on helping developers as they build applications. With AppScan 4.0 QA Edition, Sanctum adds key tools to help testers and those whose job it is to track changes and […]

Discuss this in the eWEEK Forum I really appreciate my readers, but, because Im fearful of plagiarism, Im planning to implement anti-plagiarism mechanisms that will have the unfortunate side effect of preventing you from reading my column how and where you want to. While that may inconvenience some, most readers will hardly notice these controls. […]

For many IT managers and CIOs, the biggest challenge isnt dealing with users or preventing attacks on their systems by malicious crackers, its dealing with their own bosses cluelessness. Im not talking about the problem of selling IT to a CEO who doesnt understand the value and return on big IT projects and applications. Im […]

Probably the biggest surprise about Mozilla 1.5 is that it exists at all. When the Mozilla Foundation laid out its road map earlier this year, the plan was for Mozilla 1.4 (see review) to be the last version of the big integrated Mozilla suite. But with the stand-alone Firebird browser and the stand-alone Thunderbird mail […]

It would not be surprising if Macromedia Inc., whose Web development and authoring tools are dominant products in their respective markets, decided to rest on its laurels and provide minor upgrades. However, with Studio MX 2004, that is clearly not the case. The new releases of several products in the Web development suite are worthwhile […]

If you use the Web, you use Secure Sockets Layer connections. SSL is the technology that secures your connection so you can safely submit your credit card number to online merchants such as Amazon.com. It makes it possible to securely use Web-based mail clients from kiosks or shared computers. It is also used to provide […]

When youre the best, it can be tough to stay on top. With the release last month of XMLSpy 2004, Altova Inc. has not significantly upgraded its Analysts Choice award-winning XML and Web services editing tool, although the new features and integration in this version are welcome. While XMLSpy 2004 isnt a significant upgrade over […]

When you look at Microsoft Office, its hard not to feel a little sorry for it. After all, probably no other Microsoft product has been as thoroughly thrashed by its competitors as Office has. Im not talking about Suns StarOffice and its OpenOffice sibling, though both are excellent suites and certainly give Office 2003 a […]