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Last week marked another milestone for the future of XML. In addition to the release of the World Wide Web Consortium's XML Schema, the scores of companies involved in the UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) project announced that the
Microsoft's entry into the professional-services business is one of the best things that can happen to this market.
As the amount of XML data continues to grow, the market for databases capable of easily handling that data also is sprouting.
Cable is tired of being the dumb pipe and has spent the past five years and $42 billion to prove it.
Reading rumors of dot-com doom can pay off with easy pickings for competitors of ailing companies, as Mark Goldin learned in October.
There are times when transportation companies see demand that outweighs capacity.
His "son" might have been a bit unwieldy, but it helped to change the world. These days, Charles Goldfarb is just as happy boasting about his grandchild.
A proposed new XML specification from Microsoft Corp. and Hyperion Solutions Corp. to allow open access to multidimensional databases likely will streamline development of some analytic applications but will not affect the large number of IT departments t