Some of you might well be aware of Jini/JavaSpaces technology. If you are in London next week and you want to find out more about it, have a look at the link...
<< By abstracting the software from the hardware and inserting a layer to manage operations with fewer human resources and more reliability, Cassatt could...
Here is another take on this: << Cassatt Corporation, the glitterati start-up headed by BEA co-founder and ex-CEO Bill Coleman, is a bit sheepish about...
This insertion strategy works well for storage and not very well for computing. In computing it works better for batched jobs and very rarely for real-time...
It looks as if Dell has a vision which is not a million miles away from Cassatt's: << "The notion of big iron becomes less and less interesting in our ...
Horizontal scaling i.e. clusters is a good strategy for compute intensive applications that need to keep up with the clock speed of the CPU. So in that terms...
Matthew has just sent me a questionnaire which I have put into the Long Polls folder of the Files section. It is too long to fit into the Group's Polls...
A lot of products support business intelligence capabilities and a lot of IT money is spent on this. But it is not always clear what the ROI is for putting all...
<<IBM is building software it hopes will make it the Google of corporate-search technology. Big Blue has been quietly working on data storage software designed...
Another company has also launched a desktop search engine: Copernic. I have been a long-term suer of their Web search engine, which I use when Google does not...
<<Can you summarize briefly what is going on with the Dutch government and Microsoft? Brenno de Winter: The Dutch government has contracts with preferred ...
O/S has always been political. One of the oldest and arguably most popular open source licences, the GPL, hinges on applying politics to your software. ...
<<Remember? You are on a highway, approaching towards the place of an accident that happened just a minute ago. You have no chance but to rush towards the end...
<<A Scottish firm is looking to attract web surfers with a search engine that reads out results. Called Speegle, it has the look and feel of a normal search...
<<Monson-Haefel said the primary driver has been the increasing complexity associated with developing for J2EE. Rebel frameworks rose to prominence as a direct...
The Danish Finance Minister (I hope he knows more about IT than Gordon Brown) thinks open source is essential for application integration. You can find the...
Linux is gradually seeping through into the lives of consumers. Other Open SOurce software can but follow: <<IF YOU received a TiVo (www.tivo.com) DVR or a...
One of the major technical challenges facing both rich and poor countries in this century is the vexatious question of transport with its concommitant issues...
<< Microsoft officials have said little about the company's intentions in the grid-computing space. But that doesn't mean Microsoft is ignoring the evolving...
<<As the year draws to a close, I want to take a moment to point out some database management-related products that have had noteworthy changes this year or...
<<The open-source movement has already rewritten the rules for how software is licensed and used. Now the computer services market is changing to keep up. With...
<<Prediction By 2008, at least 40 percent of PCs will ship with hypervisor technology (0.7 probability). Key Findings * Complexity, inefficiency and cost are...
<<IBM announced on Tuesday that it was making 500 of its software patents freely available to anyone working on open-source projects, like the popular Linux...
More on this: <<But, is there more to IBM's pledge of non-assertion than meets the eye? Could IBM's posession of certain patents actually work to the benefit...
<<"As an entrepreneur many times over, he hopes he's really getting it right this time." So states half of Mitch Kapor's terse biography on the Open Source...
CEP is an emerging TLA: <<Complex Event Processing (CEP) is an emerging technology for building and managing information systems. The goal of CEP is to enable...
This also seems to be related to JAIN SLEE, which is the Java standard for SLEE as defined in a number of JSRs. SLEE is an acronym for Service Logic Execution...
Thanks, Ernie. I have come across an interesting article about how CEP is used to process data from RFIDs in what Accenture dubs Silent Commerce. You can...
<<The reports –- "'Model-Driven'" Matters More Than MDA" and "Pattern-Based Development Appeals" -- are based on surveys conducted with 389 IT organizations...
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