The Web and XML have changed our perspective about what data can do. Instead of regarding data as something to be stored in a database and shuttled across existing networks by systems locked in a ...

Only a few years ago, the high-tech industry was afire with talk of "network computing" and "push technology." Then "PC-TV convergence" came into vogue, only to give way to "B2B" and "ASPs," which in ...

Enterprise application integration; enterprise systems integration; legacy data access: thoughts that make most of us cringe. Until now, these terms have meant long hours of frustration, sleepless ...

Not long ago, the idea would have been unthinkable: Microsoft and IBM, sworn enemies after their struggle for control of the PC operating system in the early 1990s, laying down their swords and ...

Organizations that attempt to do business online quickly learn that there are lots of IT-related problems that others have already solved. Increasingly, those solutions are becoming readily available ...

A project to build a giant Web services directory touted by the likes of Microsoft and IBM has yet to catch on, as companies stumble over technology hurdles and come to grips with market hype. Born ...

David Litwack has seen several technology revolutions come and go. He worked on products at the forefront of the PC movement in the 1980s, the client/server rage in the early 1990s, and the Web craze ...

This standard defines the responsibilities the developer should take when developing a web site on Purdue-IT-hosted web servers. Web Services’ goal is to provide a stable and secure web hosting ...