Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:39 AM/EST
It's probably only a matter of time before more enterprising lawyers start suing software developers for reckless disregard over a security breach. In fact, the Hartford Insurance Company has already started offering insurance policies to developers to help defray...
Monday, March 09, 2009 3:01 PM/EST
With all the talk about service-oriented architecture (SOA) being dead and the lack of understanding about event driven architecture (EDA), a lot of folks in enterprise application development circles have been talking up the concept of complex event processing...
Sunday, February 22, 2009 5:34 PM/EST
The whole concept of bolting business intelligence on to enterprise applications after they have already been built is an anachronism. When you think about it, for any application to have any real value it has to have some business...
Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:31 AM/EST
Just about every aspect of enterprise software can now by purchases as a service, so it stands to reason that middleware would become available as a service as well. For example, we've already seen the creation of startup companies...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:54 AM/EST
When it comes to open source technologies these days there's naturally a lot of interest because the initial price is right. And while people can argue about the total cost of ownership when it comes to running open source...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 8:00 AM/EST
The open source invasion of the data center continues this week with an Apache Tomcat Java application server offering from SpringSource. For those of you not familiar with SpringSource, this relatively young startup company has been gaining a fair...
Friday, November 14, 2008 7:15 AM/EST
When IT people try to advance the state of the art in their organizations during extraordinary times, a lot of times they are willing to consider alternative approaches in order to maximize the value of every available dollar. In...
Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:43 AM/EST
Now matter how severe the downturn in the economy is, it still has to blow some good for somebody. Increasingly, that somebody looks like the proponents of open source software. We've already seen how open source is making advances...
Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:18 PM/EST
One of the major security issues of the day is how little responsibility developers take for making applications secure. We have more or less created a culture where responsibility for securing the overall computing environment fell to network professionals...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:04 AM/EST
The new definition of innovation in the enterprise is how easily someone can connect disparate sources of information to reveal some greater truth or streamline some operation. That question seems to be at the heart of every new service...