In case some of you are actually still wondering what .NET comprises, here is an introductory description: <<Perhaps no brand in the history of computing has...
GigaSpaces Release 3.2 introduces new Distributed-Caching Mechanism boosting performance by orders of magnitude ... New York, NY, March 4, 2004. GigaSpaces a...
Time is running out to register for the Jini Community[SM] meeting in Cambridge, Mass from March 23-25, 2004. You'll find in-depth presentations, technical...
Tippy technology and the 'winner takes all' effect By Sean McGrath I have a fax machine. You have a fax machine. Therefore, my fax machine can talk to your fax...
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Speech technology's profile is bound to be raised thanks to Microsoft's entry into the market. <<For years people who have struggled to work with mindless ...
<<University of San Francisco researchers are attempting to create a poor man's supercomputer cluster by linking desktop PCs and notebooks together through a...
<<The amount of information, delivered by billions if not trillions of RFID sensors, or smart dust, functioning as self-organizing and managed networks, will...
Service-orientated architectures represent one of the more significant, not to mention fashionable application architectural paradigms that are gaining...
<<Have you heard of the Smart Enterprise Suite? Now is a good time to get familiar with the concept, as you consider the shape that your organization's...
Of all the major IT vendors Oracle probably makes the most noise about GRID computing except possibly for IBM. Below is the link for a short report on the...
Here is an article by Chuck Kelly which I received by e-mail: ========================================================== Specialty databases - There's always...
The fallacy of business objects By Sean McGrath In the next three paragraphs, you will encounter a strong reality distortion field. Keep your wits about you as...
my thoughts ... Alongwith these architectural changes will be some organizational changes as well. For example, encapsulation of the domain specific IT ...
Thanks for the insight, Sean, Â I actually think that if you stand back and look at each of these positions, I claim that they are really the same thing only...
Interesting point of view (and my first de-lurk, hi!). I think there are some serious downsides with this approach (which I believe is called the Command...
... I don't believe so. The RESTful approach which Sean advocates suggests that "get outstanding invoices" explicitly does *not* need to be understood by both...
 Actually, you simply describe the mechanism by which the two parties can find out what is meant by the request. The spider wouldn't know how to make a...
E-trading in an e-pit By Sean McGrath It is not commonly known that the world of financial trading received a major boost in 1988, when yours truly, failed a...
<<In previous columns, we've looked at the relationship between high- level business transactions and lower-level, IT transactions. We made clear that, to...
Here is an e-mailed article from Peter Coffee on using salesforce.com as a platform. Interesting concept: using an ASP as a development platform and provider...
Rapid application development and the art of throwing things away By Sean McGrath One of the great - but often uncelebrated - capabilities computers give us,...
<<But, we may be selling Linux and our business short if we only push Linux as an edge or low-end infrastructure play according to Forrester Research Inc. In...
<<IBM Software next week is slated to outline plans to shrink and componentize key middleware as a way to bring rich client capabilities to the tiniest...
<<Thunder, a supercomputer recently installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is possibly the second-most powerful computing machine on the planet...
<<Just as the public adoption of telephones required a business not just to have a phone of its own, but to deploy a call center to take full advantage of this...