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Readers Respond: The Knowledge Trek

I agree with Peter Coffees philosophy that "fixing problems" needs to become a routine, managed process, rather than a crisis event (Peter Coffees Epicenters,...

New Oracle App Server Targets SOAs

Oracle Corp. Monday is expected to announce a new version of its application server at the companys Oracle OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco. Oracle Application...

Access to Data No Longer the Weakest LINQ

Twenty-one years ago, the first formal software recommendation that I ever wrote was an in-house memo recommending our companys adoption of a 2-year-old product...

Siebel Denies Early Demise of CRM OnDemand

Siebel Systems Inc. officials denied market predictions this week that its hosted customer relationship management application service would have a short life span in...

Sparkle Vs. Flash

Flash has been spreading across the Internet like animated kudzu in recent years, powering dynamic applications in everything from traditionally staid banking sites to...

New Skin for the Onion

Soon, a whole crop of uninitiated readers will discover "Americas Finest News Source" on the Web. As they scroll past obscene headlines, absurd Presidential...

Microsoft Extends Its Next-Generation Graphics Tech to Macs, Mobile Devices

LOS ANGELES—Microsoft Corp. on Thursday took another poke at graphics powerhouse Adobe Systems Inc. At its developer confab here, the Windows company announced that...

Electronic Health Data Helping Katrina Victims

How do you take your daily medicine if you cant remember what prescriptions you have? Thats the situation facing many Katrina evacuees with chronic...

FEMA, Microsoft Tiptoe Toward Open Standards

Strange, strange things are afoot in the land of open standards. First, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) showed that it could be as incompetent...

U.S. Appeals Court Tosses Bar-Code Patent Case

A U.S. Court of Appeals panel this week issued a ruling in a long-running patent infringement lawsuit that threatened retailers using bar-code readers. The...