Opinion

Waste not, want not

Technological innovations will help companies ring up significant savings on cell phone tolls

Connecting the dots in Web services

The Windows way to Web services

Microsoft's Web services approach may be the easiest, but at what cost?

The road to secure Web services

Traditional means of securing e-commerce can be used, but better methods are in the works

Check, please

Although they're taking different routes, companies want to get us to the same place: Web services on demand

Cash in on components

Application Composer 2.0 allows developers to rapidly construct applications and Web services

Catch the services bus

Iona's XMLBus 5.0 is the first stop for business-process modeling in Web services integration

Web services offer a glimpse of the future

Down the road, look for services to change the way the entire computing infrastructure functions

Making the connection

Platforms, tools, applications, and vendor strategies are coming together to fulfill the promise of Web services

Tying the application knot

Web services support will be mandatory for enterprise applications vendors

Survey results are shocking: It’s a tie

Web services: A skeptic’s journey

Dan Woods looks past the hype for the real promise and potential pitfalls surrounding Web services

On the wireless front

Mobile users lose as Microsoft, Sun, and other vendors rev up for a major war over standards

Man in the white suit

Remember this cautionary tale when disruptive technology that's in the pipeline seeks to change the rules for everyone

Future of open source

Another growth year is ahead as open source continues its march on corporate servers and desktops

Heroes in pursuit of elegant disruption

Those in IT who master the art of change will thrive even in the current economic climate

The ongoing dilemma

UCITA debate heats up again as a standby draft committee reviews proposals from its opponents

Dawn of disruption

Disruptive technology innovations needn't cause disarray; plan for change and keep your competitive edge

A race against the clock

A new encryption standard on the horizon will eventually fall victim to Moore's law as did its predecessors

The next Windows

A leaner, faster operating system named Symbian poses a challenge to Microsoft's GUI

Count your blessings

Feel lucky to have a job, even though there's not much money in the bonus or salary coffers these days

Predictions, predictions

Microsoft .Net and C#

A new development framework challenges enterprise Java

Serial ATA and iSCSI

Storage networks fuel the distributed enterprise

Benevolent worms

Will virus technology be part of future software delivery systems?

802.11 wireless LANs

Emerging standards prepare wireless networks for prime time

Peer-to-peer

P-to-P technologies create new models of knowledge sharing

Instant messaging

Real-time collaboration takes corporate users by storm

Web services

It's a brave new world for application integration

How to increase your intranet usage 98 percent

Server-side Java: Software engineering on Internet time

Developing on Internet time still requires strong software-engineering principles