Web Services Journal received a copy of the latest visual development environment from Microsoft - Visual Studio .NET, Enterprise Architect edition. We loaded the software on a PC running Windows 2000 Server, with 384MB of RAM, but with a fairly slow processor (400MHz AMD K6-III).

SYS-CON Radio interviews Rick Hightower, CTO, Trivera, live from the show floor.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Bill Dettleback, Chief Systems Architech, eXcelon.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Reg Bravo, Director of Business Development for EvolveWare Inc.

SYS-CON Radio interviews John Nydam, Product Manager for Melissa Data.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Jenee Bennett, of iSavvix Corporation.

SYS-CON Radio interviews John Blair, Chairman and Corporate Development Officer of Kenamea.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Emilio Bernabei, Director of Product Management at Covasoft.

I guess the title begs the question, if this is the end of the beginning, is it the beginning of the end? Hardly. But it is time to close the book on the first phase of Web services - the beginning of the hype curve.

Like many IT professionals, I'm an amateur musician. As such, I know how much effort it can be to get a group of people to work together, start together, end together and make a pleasant sort of noise together. And I play in a small group, so I can imagine the coo...

Remember that kid in the neighborhood - the one who had the bat and ball, and if you wanted to play together, you had to use his stuff? Even if he was a pretty nice kid, there was always a time when you longed for the ability to play on your own, or at least use a ...

One of the ingrained attitudes in the United States is the desire to simplify choices to a binary decision. Black or white. Coffee or tea. Winner or loser. Even our expressions reflect this ­ 'two-horse race,' 'two-party system.' And it's no different in the worl...

SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Krishna Gollamudi, President, Wakesoft

SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Steve Benfield, CTO, SilverStream Software

SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Dave Chappell, Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software Corporation

SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Ajay M. Rambhia, CTO, EvolveWare Inc.

SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Nigel Thomas, Director of Product Marketing, SpiritSoft

SYS-CON Radio Host Sean Rhody interviews Hugh Grant, CTO, Cape Clear Software

As the new year finally starts to take hold, we're seeing a number of interesting, challenging, and even disturbing trends in the world of Web services. One of the more interesting business intelligence reports predicted recently that Web services will hit the hei...

Probably one of the most interesting tasks that can be given to an architect (system architect, program architect, lead architect, application architect - pick the title that resonates most in your environment) is the task of evaluating or determining the directio...

There's an old story about what happens when several blind men encounter an elephant. One, feeling the leg, says that an elephant is like a tree. Others, touching various other parts of the elephant's anatomy, describe it as other things. The point of the story...

Wireless, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Mention wireless, and you can step back and watch the conversation spin for hours around differing definitions and approaches. In some minds, wireless is all about cell phones, and consequently is a comple...

I'm showing my age, but a number of years ago ELO released an album entitled 'Discovery.' One of the songs was entitled 'Shine a Little Light,' which is apropos for this month's editorial since our feature focus for this edition is Discovery. I took part...

Web Services Edge West and XMLEdge 2001 opened for business October 22 with a series of sessions and tutorials. Five tracks were maintained throughout the conference. The conference proper began on Tuesday, October 23, with a keynote presentation by Dr. Charles ...

The software industry returned to New York City with the International Java & Web Services Conference and Expo at the Hilton New York. In spite of what many thought might prove insurmountable obstacles, the international software industry has provided New York...

One of the most interesting paradoxes of the information age is the challenge of obtaining critical mass for a technology - the classic chicken-and-egg problem. Remember when you could buy your software on floppy disks because only a few people had CD-ROM dr...

I sometimes think that the best job in the world would be strategic thinking. Every time I see a quote from a strategist, it's always five years out and full of promise. You know the ones I mean. It goes something like this: 'By 2005 every wristwatch will have a P...

For nearly 160 years, Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) has been collecting and providing information and analysis on public and private companies worldwide. As a business information company, D&B relies heavily upon technology to support data that produces up-to-the-minute ...

SYS-CON Radio host and editor-in-chief of Web Services Journal, Sean Rhody, interviews John Rymer, CEO of IONA Technologies

My column two months ago, 'Sunset on the Evil Empire,' stirred up a great deal of controversy. Part of it was my fault, as I was trying to make two distinct points in the article, and that elicited a great deal of excitement directed at one point or the other. M...

This is my first note to let everyone know about the plans for our very own, SYS-CON-sponsored JavaEdge2001 International Java Developer Conference & Expo. This year's conference will be held in New York City from September 23 to September 26. As a corporation, ...

Maybe I don't understand marketing concepts. It seems to me that advertising one of your products as 13 times more reliable than another of your products is not the optimal approach. In my mind, you'd want to emphasize its reliability compared to your competitors'...

You see personalization and targeted marketing all over the web. Almost every commerce site offers you the opportunity to set up your own favorites, rearrange their home page to suit your tastes, and be remembered when you come to their site. Every site I visit...

One of the nice things about working for a large consulting company is that I have access to our strategic services department. These are the people who help develop strategies for our clients and research industry trends and conditions. I recently spoke with a fe...

Linux is one of the operating systems I run in my basement in what my wife likes to call the computer lab from hell. That may be because the heat from all the obsolete equipment I collect is reducing my fuel bill and keeping the place toasty and warm. Linux is one...

There's a project team out there that really hates me. I was called in recently to help them get their application together so it could be put into production. When I got there, I determined that the problem was simple - no one understood configuration management.

Lately I've received a number of e-mails and had conversations regarding J2EE compliance and what it means to the industry. Each conversation or message has a slightly different slant depending on whether the person on the other end is a vendor or a reader or a co...

Years ago, when I was in college, I decided to pursue a minor in music to offset the insanity of getting a degree in physics. I spent a bit of time learning the key signatures, and how to transpose music written in one key to another, usually simpler, key (since I...

'J2EE is to Java what SQL was to databases.' That's a direct quote from one of my conversations with software vendors during JavaOne. And I tend to agree with the statement. I spent most of the show talking with people regarding their products, their visions and the...

I spent a couple of weeks in Florida recently - ignoring the Internet and hoping the market dip would go away. It felt good not to pull e-mail (all right, I did, but not every day) and it gave me some time to think about the whirlwind pace that's been the routine of the past year.