Playing catch-up Microsoft says it's going to undercut salesforce.com later this quarter when it trots out Dynamics Live CRM, its first in-house hosted customer relationship management software. Microsoft's already got third parties hosting Dynamics CRM, which explains the rationale fo...

I will be attending the Ajax World Conference next week in Santa Clara. I will also be at the opening reception on Monday and the conference party on Tuesday. Over the weekend Jesse Liberty blogged about this as well 'If you are going to be at AJAXWorld, look for me on Twitter, and let...

SourceLabs announced the availability of SASH 2 complete with a major new milestone - integrated support for Apache Tomcat. Comprised of the most widely deployed open source Java technologies used by the Global 2000, new SASH 2 is a robust platform that simplifies the development of en...

SYS-CON Events announced today that 'AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West' main sponsorship opportunities are now sold-out! Limited number of expo and event sponsorship opportunities that are still available are expected to be completely sold before the end of the month. The new spons...

I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at http://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I taught in New York at the S...

We're working on an iPhone-optimized version of Ta-da List. As I was working on some UI ideas, Ryan and I were talking about some of really cool things about designing for the iPhone. I remarked that I loved the constraints. For example, we know the exact screen size/resolution, we kno...

Former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar, 45, started his 12-year prison sentence Tuesday at a minimum-security federal pen in Fairton, New Jersey. Sentenced in November he's been out this long selling off personal possessions to pay a $52 million installment on the $798 million in stockholder resti...

AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East sponsors included: Laszlo Systems (Diamond Sponsor), JackBe (Platinum Sponsor), Adobe (Platinum Sponsor), Cynergy (Platinum Sponsor), Backbase (Gold Sponsor) Google (Gold Sponsor), Nexaweb (Gold Sponsor), ICEsoft (Gold Sponsor), Oracle (Gold Sponso...

AJAXWorld 2007 West will take place on September 23-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California, and will offer a new dedicated 'iPhone Track.' Another dedicated track will offer a comparative education opportunity for conference delegates on emerging RIA...

A seasoned Java professional has to know more than just the syntax of the Java language. Java EE offers a set of standardized technologies for enterprise development. A number of open-source frameworks such as Spring or Hibernate are widely used in a variety of Java applications. Famil...

Finally, ColdFusion 8 has incorporated image manipulation directly into the ColdFusion tag and scripting language. No more are we, as developers, chained to third-party products. These products, while excellent in quality, just mean adding one more level of complexity to any applicatio...

This article covers the process of building a real working AJAX application on top of Oracle's free database software. The demonstration takes advantage of features integrated directly into Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle XE), the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway and Oracle XML DB, ...

It's widely recognized that the telecommunications industry is riding the crest of change and evolution on the back of new access technologies such as 3G, GPRS, and Wi-Fi. Such IP-centric access mechanisms must also be considered in conjunction with the emergence of feature-enabling te...

IBM says it is foreswearing enforcement of a bunch of patents it holds that might be necessary to implement upwards of 150 standards designed to make software interoperate. It says it is granting 'universal and perpetual access' to the IP to both commercial and open source developers, ...

I'm going to postpone the second part of my RSS aggregator article to tie this column into this Flex-themed issue. Have no fears, though, it will be back in full force in the next issue. Flex, as I'm sure most people know, is a way for programmers (you, me, and us) to create Flash movi...

Whatever sins of omission or commission the United States government is planning on charging Dell with once its two-year investigation is over have got to pale beside Dell's current abuse of a poor dead language. Long-buried Latin masters were sent spinning in their graves Tuesday whe...

Intel is going to buy $218.5 million worth of VMware's Class A common stock. That means it will own 2.5% of VMware once the EMC subsidiary goes public, but less than 1% of the voting share. However, Intel will get a board seat. VMware told the SEC Monday that it is expecting to sell 33...

There's been a lot of pubic discussion recently about what it means to be open. While the OSI has published the Open Source Definition, which lists 10 attributes of what it means to be 'open source,' commercial entities have emerged that are described as 'hybrid' models. Many companies...

Can afford to take just one day off, get out of your cubicle and see what other people up to these days? Is J2EE still in favor? What's this ESB is about? Have you even heard of using Flex as a Web front end of your Java applications? Do not miss an event in NYC this Monday, that is cr...

If you are planning to hit the job market, you may need to refresh some of the Java basic terms and techniques to prepare yourself for a technical interview. JDJ Enterprise Editor Yakov Fain here offers thirty of the core Java questions that you might expect during the interviews, 20 f...

With the continued evolution of AJAX-enabled technologies, which dramatically simplify how to build AJAX applications, will the term 'AJAX' simply wither away as ALL Web technologies eventually come to support AJAX and the novelty of rich client Web development disappears? This is the ...

Steven Baker is the one of the key figures in the Ruby community when it comes to agile software development. He is the creator and lead developer of RSpec, the Behavior-Driven Development framework for Ruby, and is a featured speaker on applying agile methodologies at many of the Ruby...

The editors of Java Developer's Journal are in a unique position when it comes to Java development. All are active coders in their 'day jobs,' and they have the good fortune in getting a heads up on many of the latest and greatest software releases. They were asked to nominate three pr...

'Thousands dead, families torn apart ? a hole in the human spirit is created by a terrible natural event,' said Intel's president & CEO Paul Otellini yesterday as Intel announced it will make a $1 million donation to the American Red Cross in support of Hurricane Katrina disaster relie...

'On behalf of the employees of Cisco, we send our deepest sympathy and condolences to all of those affected by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath,' said Cisco president and CEO John Chambers as Cisco, its employees and the Cisco Foundation pledged to contribute financial and human res...

Demonstrating the role Internet technologies (i-Technology) can play in disaster relief and recovery, the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue (NIUSR) has launched a web site aimed at facilitating the location of victims of Hurricane Katrina. The web site will present a conso...

BEA has unveiled a new brand identity, corporate tagline and marketing campaign designed to raise the company's profile and to communicate its value proposition to IT customers. Its new tagline is 'Think Liquid' - coined to reflect BEA goal of being the leading independent provider of ...

Barely three months after its acquisition of PeopleSoft, and Oracle, true to its consolidation theories, has put an offer on the table for retail software specialist Retek Inc, outbidding rival SAP, which also wants to buy the company. Oracle is offering $9 a share, $525 million cash; ...

(November 6, 2003) - The Axis C++ Development Team has announced the release of Apache Axis C++ v1.0 (Alpha).

The EAI Industry Consortium, global voice for the industry leaders in enterprise application integration, announced its alliance with BrainStorm Group Inc., DCI, Gartner Inc., Giga, and SYS-CON Media in a drive to showcase its member companies' competitive edge in the industry.

(January 21, 2003) - SAP AG's new Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA) is SAP's blueprint for complete, services-based business solutions, allowing companies to drive additional business value from existing technology investments, and enabling, for the first time, enterprise-scale us...