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No Web service is an island. But at least until recently, Web-services vendors have said little to customers about how they plan to build secure bridges across them. Sources said Microsoft later this month is expected to detail its plans for “federating” its Web services by integrating them across multiple
The furor last month following the issuance of student visas to suicide hijackers Mohammed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi is wholly misplaced. As was the furor last October over the proposal by software magnate Larry Ellison that the United States begin issuing national identification cards. As at least Ellison should know,
SAN FRANCISCO—Even as Microsoft pulls out the stops to convince corporate developers that Java is passé, Sun Microsystems has been working behind the scenes to up the programming language’s corporate appeal—and even to steal away some of Microsoft’s Visual Basic developers. At the JavaOne developers conference here this week, Sun
Negotiating any part of a service level agreement (SLA) can be tricky, but perhaps none is more so than penalties. It is at this point, where rosy promises of performance are linked to stark dollar amounts, that hackles rise. “It’s always very touchy,” says Susan Meyer, a senior attorney in
Ostensibly, companies develop “co-marketing” programs in order to promote themselves to the outside world. But for Gary Hensley, director of information technology at Odwalla, a maker of high-energy juices and snack bars in Half Moon Bay, Calif., the biggest benefit to participating in the “e-leaders” campaign started by Oracle is
Mehrdad LaghaeianCIO, Osram SylvaniaRole: Responsible for all information technologyprojects undertaken within Osram Sylvania. Became involved with bringing SAP software to Osram when he joined the company in 1994. Henny PetersEVP, GM, General Lighting division, Osram SylvaniaRole: Responsible for all electronic commerce initiatives for lighting products within Osram Sylvania. Wil BackesEx-CFOOsram
Brent Zempel wasn’t sure when or how it happened. But as CIO of Life Time Fitness, he had to untangle the $225-million-a-year health club and food retailer from the comfortable constriction of Microsoft’s Web-based software, in favor of a more flexible technology that would evolve with—rather than define—his company. “Basically,
In January, Oracle announced a new licensing plan for its 11i business-management software suite—a flat rate of $4,000 per user for access to all its applications. Oracle Vice President Jacqueline Woods says the new pricing model could save customers 25% to 75% on their costs. But there’s less to this
Did You Know That: Networks that work well serving data to desktop computers from internal servers may slow to a crawl with the use of applications based on the Web Less processing on the users’ PCs means more demand on network servers and on the network itself. More processing requests,