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XAMPP: The PHP Developer’s Dream
February 27, 2008 Brian Kelly
… Read moreThis is the final installment in a series of four articles by Brian Kelly on PHP.
Regardless of whether your production server is a System i or a System p, or if you run x-Series servers, z-series mainframes, Solaris, or HP, your dream development machine for building dynamic PHP applications needs to have XAMPP from Apache Friends. XAMPP is a phenomenal integration package for the development components that just about every modern day Web developer requires, regardless of platform they work on.
The “X” in XAMPP stands for “operating system.” The rest of the acronym is: Apache, MySQL, PHP, and
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IDC Tweaks Global IT Spending Estimates Downward for 2008
February 25, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreThe analysts at IT market researcher IDC have taken a look at the state of the global economy and have decided that their initial estimates for spending in the information technology area in 2008 were just a tad bit rosy. And therefore, IDC has decided to lower its forecast for IT spending this year, despite the explosive growth in emerging markets and mostly because of a spending slowdown in IT in particular and in the overall economy in the United States.
“While there is still debate over the severity and length of a U.S. economic slowdown, we do know that
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IDC 2008: It’s Post Disruption, the Aftermath of Webification
January 7, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreArt had post modern. Politics and economics had post history. Naturalist Euell Gibbons had Post Grape Nuts, at least until he died in 1975, when he became, like all of us, compost. And now information technology in 2008 appears to have something that the propellerheads at IDC are labeling post disruption. This seems to be another way of saying cleaning up the loose ends in Web-style computing, which is what IDC expects for IT vendors and IT buyers to worry about this year.
Usually, the key IT industry analysts make bold proclamations about the coming year as another spending binge
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XAware Takes the Open Source Plunge
November 6, 2007 Alex Woodie
… Read moreData integration tool vendor XAware yesterday announced it’s leaving behind the world of propriety software development and a direct sales force, and staking its future on the commercial open source business model. As part of the move, the company is giving away licenses to XA-Suite version 5 (which was just released), launching an open source development community at www.xaware.org, and hitching its horse to database maker MySQL, whose success in commercial open source software XAware will do its best to emulate.
XAware is a Colorado Springs, Colorado, company that has been developing a collection of XML-based data integration
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Cape Clear Tests New ESB Release
August 7, 2007 Dan Burger
… Read moreA preview version of Cape Clear Software’s Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) platform version 7.5 is available on a limited basis, with general availability expected in September. The ESB platform was designed so that users can connect any content, services, or software across the Internet using Web services.
The latest release will allow users to access, segment, and share SOA applications or integrations. It also brings support for both SOAP-based and RESTful integration styles; message replay; and support for exposing stored procedures as first-class SOA artifacts.
According to Cape Clear marketing claims, its enterprise service bus is “fully integrated and optimized”
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Thoma Cressey Bravo Puts Another Iron in the Fire
August 6, 2007 Dan Burger
… Read moreThoma Cressey Bravo, the private equity firm that we’ve become familiar with since its acquisition of System i high availability vendors Vision Solutions, iTera, and Lakeview Technology, has acquired a majority stake in the enterprise content management (ECM) software firm, Hyland Software. TCB also has an equity investment in Sirius Computer Solutions, a large System i reseller.
Hyland’s claim to fame is an ECM product called OnBase, which integrates with the majority of current server platforms. It has been designed for dedicated integration with products from tier-one application providers, such as suites from Lawson Software,
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Thoma Cressey Bravo Puts Another Iron in the Fire
August 6, 2007 Dan Burger
… Read moreThoma Cressey Bravo, the private equity firm that we’ve become familiar with since its acquisition of System i high availability vendors Vision Solutions, iTera, and Lakeview Technology, has acquired a majority stake in the enterprise content management (ECM) software firm, Hyland Software. TCB also has an equity investment in Sirius Computer Solutions, a large System i reseller.
Hyland’s claim to fame is an ECM product called OnBase, which integrates with the majority of current server platforms. It has been designed for dedicated integration with products from tier-one application providers, such as suites from Lawson Software,
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Thoma Cressey Bravo Puts Another Iron in the Fire
August 6, 2007 Dan Burger
… Read moreThoma Cressey Bravo, the private equity firm that we’ve become familiar with since its acquisition of System i high availability vendors Vision Solutions, iTera, and Lakeview Technology, has acquired a majority stake in the enterprise content management (ECM) software firm, Hyland Software. TCB also has an equity investment in Sirius Computer Solutions, a large System i reseller.
Hyland’s claim to fame is an ECM product called OnBase, which integrates with the majority of current server platforms. It has been designed for dedicated integration with products from tier-one application providers, such as suites from Lawson Software,
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SOA, What’s The Big Deal?
March 16, 2007 Alex Woodie
… Read moreNo disrespect to cavemen, but unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, there’s no way you could have missed the IT industry’s intensifying infatuation with SOA, or service oriented architecture. Like new and revolutionary computing architectures that came before it, SOA is the wonder tonic that promises to cure IT’s troubles, once and for all. Or at least that’s what the vendors say. The problem is, with everybody and his grandmother now riding the SOA bandwagon, the wagon is losing its identity and direction.
In its purest form, SOA refers to a framework for allowing
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As I See It: Behavioral Redlining
October 30, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read more“We’d like to know a little bit about you for our files; we’d like to help you learn to help yourself.”
–Simon and Garfunkel
Ever since people began gathering information about each other, the gatherers have used the data to control and punish the gatherees. King Herod, for example, used census data to hunt down families with infants hoping to preempt the coming of Christ by killing all of the male babies in Bethlehem. For centuries thereafter, birth records were used to determine social status–noble or commoner, free or slave, tax beneficiary or tax payer-and to keep common
