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Regularly Featured Columns
AND ANOTHER THING...: Boring is Better
By Ted Bahr
Sisyphus is tired. Over the past half-decade, there was the big corporate and professional push to jump onto the fast-moving dot-com train—even while it seemed to be heading for a crash. Pushing to fix Y2K defects, or to convince top management that the company’s data systems were safe. More dot-com pushing. Faster, faster! click for full story
INDUSTRY WATCH: Crossing the Channels
By David Rubinstein
Businesses and consumers seem to have reached a comfort level with using the World Wide Web to transact business. Companies can maximize trade partner opportunities and work more closely than ever with suppliers and delivery systems, while consumers have come to enjoy the ability to shop at home, at all hours, without hassle, and have gained the confidence that their credit card numbers are secure. click for full story
JAVA WATCH: Do We Really Need the JCP?
By Allen Holub
The two interesting pieces of news of the past few weeks are Sun’s open-sourcing of Solaris and Sun’s creating a new Java-persistence community-process group by melding together the EJB and JDO efforts. These two events play off each other in interesting ways.
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INTEGRATION WATCH: Solaris 10: A Flat in the Hat?
By Andrew Binstock
In mid-November, Sun launched Solaris 10, the latest incarnation of the company’s Unix operating system. Unlike the ambivalence that characterized Solaris 9’s x86 support, this version of the operating system is completely committed to the AMD and Intel 32-bit and 64-bit x86 platforms, as well as its SPARC processors. The x86 play, however, shows an interesting new strategy by Sun to be a player in the Linux server market.
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WINDOWS & .NET WATCH: Thinking Outside the Aux
By Larry O'Brien
Microsoft has begun talking about auxiliary displays for laptops. My least-favorite explanation of these “aux” displays is a comparison to the time-telling LCDs that grace the outside of many clamshell-style cell phones and that provide all the inconvenience of a pocket watch and none of the style. click for full story
Occasional Columns
ALAN WATCH: .NET, Phase Two
By Alan Zeichick
REDMOND, WASH. — It’s been almost exactly two years since Bill Gates unveiled his vision for a software development ecosystem built on the exchange of XML-based Web services. The .NET initiative, originally quite vague, expanded and solidified throughout 2000 and 2001, with the introduction of the .NET Framework, the Common Language Runtime (CLR) managed execution environment, the new C# programming language, and a revamping of Visual Studio and Visual Basic. Throughout that first year, Microsoft Corp. introduced acronym after acronym, and a range of new software tools, APIs and runtime environments ranging from ADO.NET to ASP.NET, from .NET My Services to a whole variety of products called the .NET Servers. click for full story
BOOK WATCH: Real Web Services
By Alan Zeichick
Watching a demonstration of Web services development from companies like Microsoft, Borland, Sun or IBM, you can’t help but think how simple it all looks. Initialize a few variables, set some pointers, link in some handy-dandy components, do a quick check of the UDDI registry to find the exact service you want, generate the WSDL source, connect to a database and voila!—you’re publishing a Web service. click for full story
FIRST LOOK: Borland’s C# Builder Enterprise Edition 1.0
By Larry O'Brien
Borland Software Corp.’s C# Builder Enterprise Edition is a sharp disappointment and is unlikely to win heads-up competition with Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET 2003 in any buying scenario. click for full story
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