<< Instead of scouring Web pages for keywords and links, as most search engines do, WebFountain aims to spot the opinions presented on the pages. Rather than...
Growing e-business applications By Sean McGrath In his classic essay 'No Silver Bullet'[1], The great Fred Brooks extolls the benefits of growing, as opposed...
my 2 cents ... I agree with the wisdom of the article, but sometimes the expections of us humans/managers/developers can be extended to extremes. For instance,...
When modelling business processes, upside down is the right way up By Sean McGrath One of my all time favorite ideas in problem solving is from the Hungarian...
I have recently formed a new Silent Commerce (think RFIDs) Group, which of course you would all be most welcome to join and participate in. You can find it at...
<<It's all very well, then, for Lancope to greet me at breakfast this morning with its joint announcement that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has...
What do "on-demand", "virtualisation", "autonomic" etc. mean in practice? Well, one thing they do have in common is that they are jargonbites which have...
Data storage and data transmission - a tale of two worlds By Seán McGrath Many things are very different on the planet Tralfamadore[1] but today we will focus...
We have all heard of ERP. Once hailed as a godsent successor to MRP II and legacy financial systems, it has sometimes lived up to expectations, but frequently...
<<BAM products are a first small step towards helping enterprises overcome IT blindness. This is a very active and expanding area. Gartner listed over 50...
Two HTTP verbs diverged in a wood... By Sean McGrath Listen up, summer (northern hemisphere) is upon us and it is poetry time. Robert Frost's The Road not...
PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) seems to be the fastest growing enterprise application TLA. <<Saturn is just one of a growing crowd of midsize manufacturers...
<<Relative costs of embedded system development on various platforms are as controversial a topic as the relative costs on servers, with equally spirited...
<<A new platform for commerce is taking shape. It's a concept called
business-service platforms, and it's emerging to denote hubs of
enormous networked...
Quantum computing: A two-edged sword for security By Sean McGrath Quantum mechanics is weird. Really, really weird. You think some reality TV shows are weird?...
Excellent read! Thanks Sean, Gervas. :-) The biggest problems with security has not been passwords, keys, encryption, or encoding -- it has been the security...
IBM lures students with free software http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020381,39161205,00.htm [quote] Scott McKinley, chief executive and chairman of...
BPM is a hot topic in many enterprises and discussed frequently in the various industry rags. Patterns books have also had great success in the marketplace....
Just came across a story that helps you understand Semantic Web (and RDF). It plays in future, as follows: "August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the...
<<JBoss supports the concept of Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), a development methodology that means changes made in one part of an application ripple...
<<Thanks to the marriage of open source and Java in Sleepycat's new pure-Java version of Berkeley DB, many may reconsider whether they need to use a relational...
I've seen "lightweight" Java and OODBMS' embedded and non embedded used before, I've applied Prevayler to a system for instance. In my experience data...
Back in the good old days when enterprise computing depended solely on the mainframe, someone spotted a market for providing data processing facilities for...
Max, Thanks for raising the very relevant issue of data integration. It seems to be becoming increasingly unfashionable for applications to directly share...
Gervas, I agree with your most of your points, I suppose the issue I was really trying to point out is that, unless people realise what role lightweight dbms'...
Gervas -- Taking a look at your list of innovative databases, I was amused, yet pleased, to see Cache' on the list. Cache' originated in the mid-60's, IIRC ...
Thanks, Dawn. I know this is one of your specialities. I did not realise that Caché was quite so ancient - still it was innovative when it was born. I am...
One of the interesting recent trends in database development has been the growth of open source databases. The obvious example is MySQL, based in Sweden (yes,...
There has been much noise in the computer press about public sector users setting open source migration strategies. Brazil is an example of a country which is...
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