Timothy Dyck

Oracle Corp. takes an all-in-one approach with its Oracle9i Application Server Release 2, which provides lots of extra trimmings for more complex Web application development. Organizations developing custom portals or building document management systems and those that want to deploy business intelligence tools using an intranet site will find that the completeness of Oracles offering […]

AskSams document template and text search features make it a good option for text databases controlled and used by a single user, and it gains stronger import features and an API in Version 5.0. Released last month by Seaside Software Inc. (doing business as AskSam Systems), AskSam 5.0 adds the ability to import Adobe Systems […]

Earlier this month, I spent a day at IBMs Toronto development center (home to most of the development team for DB2 on Windows and Unix) getting briefed on the DB2 development road map. Data integration is the big story. IBM already does a better job than anyone else of making it easy to connect external […]

Organizations using Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server will be able to download an add-on for the database starting this week that will provide large-scale personalized e-mailing. The add-on, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Notification Services, is included in a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 license, so anyone using SQL Server can install Notification Services on the same machine […]

The preventative focus on secure installations in the upcoming Windows .Net Server is visible right from almost the first click on the installer. When we did an upgrade test on a Windows 2000 Server system to Windows .Net Server Release Candidate 1, the installer noticed that the IIS (Internet Information Services) Lockdown Wizard had not […]

Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 was released earlier this month, consolidating more than a year of security patches and other bug fixes since Service Pack 2 shipped. It, along with related documentation, can be found at www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp3/default.asp. SP3 includes the contents of Service Pack 1, Service Pack 2 and Windows 2000 Security Rollup Package Version […]

Web developers who create sites by using Microsofts ASP .Net script language have a new development tool to try. Microsoft ASP .Net Web Matrix fills out the companys developer product line nicely because it remains similar to Visual Studio .Net while offering a simpler set of options that focus just on ASP .Net development for […]

This past week, I interviewed Gillis Onyeabor, the CEO of GenoTechs Inc. and developer of the companys AstroMark Web Database Platform. Version 3.0 of the software is coming out in the next few weeks. AstroMark is a development and deployment platform for database applications. End users need to download and install the Windows-based client (its […]

Weve been advocates of trusted operating system approaches to security for a number of years now. Entercept Security Technologies Inc.s Entercept 2.5, which provides kernel-level trusted operating-system-style security, earns eWeeks Analysts Choice award as our pick as the best way to protect Web servers at large organizations from defacement or other kinds of attacks. Entercept […]

Getting a FileMaker database to wherever its needed will be easier for FileMaker users next month when FileMaker Mobile 2.1 ships. The $49 product (there arent upgrade options) gains support for running and synchronizing FileMaker databases on Pocket PC PDAs. Palm devices are already supported. In my tests with a Compaq iPaq 3870, I could […]

Oracle Corp. is the first among the big relational database vendors to make major changes to its database in response to XML, shaking up the generally overpriced and underperforming native XML database market something fierce but having a lesser effect on current Oracle database sites. Oracle9i Database Release 2 (click here to see screen) continues […]

Excelons $399 Stylus Studio XML editor is growing into a decent competitor to the king of the hill, Altovas XML Spy. I found XML Spy still a notably better XML and schema file editor, but Stylus Studio has stronger XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) features. Stylus Studio 4.0, which shipped in June, gains an editable […]