<<An experimental supercomputer made from hardware that can reconfigure itself to tackle different software problems is being built by researchers in Scotland....
<<In June 2003, Aheeva started evaluating various call center systems. Proprietary technologies looked at included those offered by Interactive Intelligence...
Hi Gervas, et. al.: Great commentary on Asterisk - it is a wonderful platform that we've also been using successfully for over 18mos with end-users scattered...
<<In other words, now that banks see that branches are effective vehicles to grow and cross-sell bank assets, branch automation should become a strategic...
<<Microsoft gave more details Tuesday on its plans to launch Windows-based "hypervisor" software for running multiple operating systems. Bob Muglia, senior...
<<To that end, Google has launched the Summer of Code program, which will pay students to contribute to one of 40 open source software projects as well as to...
<<Despite its stature and storied history in programming circles, C++ has only been around since 1991. Even though other programming languages like Java and C#...
<<The strategy Microsoft has for its Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA) is a realistic one, simply because it has to be. Redmond is well aware of the fact that...
Here is an interview of Mark Spencer: << industry. But Mark Spencer's company, Digium, has something that eluded many a Silicon Valley wannabee during the...
<<Now the software giant faces a different challenge: fending off open-source alternatives that are good enough for most jobs. At Microsoft's TechEd customer...
And here is somethig on developments in online banking: <<Providing online banking facilities is now expected for retail banks. However, the range of services...
Software quality seems to be a problem that grows with increasing software complexity, not one that seems to diminish with the application of human ingeneuity....
DCML: Doomed to obscurity? [Krissi Danielsson, Contributor] Back in early 2004, Data Center Markup Language (DCML) was all the rage. Industry press predicted...
Here is further comment on this theme: <<You've heard of feature creep? The phenomenon that occurs, usually during the specification phase, when extraneous...
<<The proprietary model, they argued, causes too much fragmentation to meet the global IT demands of tomorrow and will soon be replaced by open source and open...
... I have been struggling to find one. But theoretically, we need a rich client side runtime. Browsers cannot be very effective. Since, we do not have any ...
Gervas, There is http://www.richclients.org - I don't know who runs it, but it seems to cover a fair variety of vendors/technologies. I think they mainly...
Grevas, It will be a good idea to check out the Eclipse.org. They have some framework / plugins for Rich Client Platform. You may find something there as they...
Hi Gervas, et. al.: Again (I have just come to expect this from you), you are hitting the proverbial "head of the nail" in evaluating back-end software stacks....
... The ServiceUI mechanism in Jini allows your services to have rich, downloaded interfaces. The fact that serviceUI is intended to be used by rich clients...
Friends, I found some of the very useful (free) magazines on net.. For computer, telecom,Open source, electronics, laser, photonics, chip, offshoring and what...
Furthermore, anyone who needs convincing only source one of the biggest database projects on Earth..Google. "Schmidt had originally wanted Google to use a...
Don't know if you consider Mozilla to be "vendor-independent", but you can find material about XUL at http://xulplanet.com/tutorials/whyxul.html Along with...
Even for enterprise apps, workstation platforms are important - they are after all the most common client platform, even with the proliferation of smart mobile...
... Webstart uses HTTP to transport data, and does not allow a specific security policy to be asserted. The webstart application has its download versioning...