Bad news for JBoss

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Oct 27, 20052 mins

Best of the blogs: IBM’s WebSphere Application Server Community Edition is bad news for JBoss, writes Dave Rosenberg, because JBoss lacks a strong database story and now is really facing a much richer product portfolio that it ever has. Greg Nawrocki looks at hacking grid applications, and concludes that “with conventional operating systems and applications it can sometimes to be difficult to prevent a hack, however a hack is usually pretty easy to recognize. In the new world of Web services and Web apps this may not be so clear.”

Hot Review: Improvements to graphics, multi-threading support, and integration with Visual Studio.Net make Trolltech’s Qt 4 cross-platform application development tool considerably better than its predecessors. That said, the InfoWorld Test Center did have some “trivial complaints,” such as a lack of bindings other than C++ and no standard phone support.

Storage: Mario Apicella tracks the buzz at the Fall Storage Networking World conference, including moves from Adaptec, LSI Logic, Maxtor, McData and Microsoft.

The news beat: Microsoft outlines some of the security changes that IE 7 will bring, SBC says it will take on the AT&T name when the merger closes, and Orange tries to slice its way into businesses with new Windows devices.