(March 20, 2002) - The co-inventor of XML, Tim Bray, has been stirring up a
lively debate among Internet technologists. The reason? He thought it might
be fun to make a public presentation in which XML - and indeed every other
Internet technology of the past and present - was "ranked" according to the
simple criterion: does it actually matter?
Widely recognized as an expert in information search and retrieval from large
databases, and former cofounder of the Open Text Corporation where he
introduced one of the first commercial search engines, Bray tends to know
whereof he speaks. So his verdict - which was that SQL/RDBMS, Unix/C, Open
Source, PC Client, WWW, Java, and XML have all been proven to matter...while
OODBMS, 4GL, AI, VRML, Interactive TV, Ada, and SGML have been proven not to
- is noteworthy.
Arguments about which are the "matter" technologies and which are... (more)
(March 20, 2002) - The co-inventor of XML, Tim Bray, has been stirring up a
lively debate among Internet technologists. The reason? He thought it might
be fun to make a public presentation in which XML - and indeed every other
Internet technology of the past and present - was "ranked" according to the
simple criterion: does it actually matter?
Widely recognized as an expert in information search and retrieval from large
databases, and former cofounder of the Open Text Corporation where he
introduced one of the first commercial search engines, Bray tends to know
whereof he speaks... (more)
(June 25, 2003) - StrikeIron, Inc., a Web services software development
company, has unveiled its first product, the StrikeIron Web Services
Analyzer. It provides business intelligence analysts, knowledge workers and
software developers with the ability to locate and understand the data
structure, data requirements, behavior, and expected results of any Web
service anywhere in the world.
Web services are emerging worldwide and each has its own business purpose and
set of requirements. Implementers of Web services are required to spend an
inordinate amount of time pouring over XM... (more)
"Though it's been around for a while, AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript + XML) is
now a hot topic in the application developer community because it brings
cross-platform rich user interfaces to web applications without having to use
products like Microsoft .NET or Macromedia," said Steve Benfield, VP of
strategy & technology evangelism at ClearNova, Inc., as it was announced that
executives from ClearNova will be championing AJAX in their session at the
South Florida Java User's Group in the Miami area on August 17.
The discussion will be led by Benfield - pictured here talking to SYS... (more)
"Thousands dead, families torn apart – a hole in the human spirit is
created by a terrible natural event," said Intel's president & CEO Paul
Otellini (pictured) yesterday as Intel announced that the Intel Foundation,
its philanthropic arm, will make a $1 million donation to the American Red
Cross in support of Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts.
In a communication to Intel employees, Otellini commented on the emotions
unleashed by the tragedy: "The thought that major cities will not be
inhabitable for weeks or even months is something Americans have never had to
face befo... (more)
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